Annie Lapin examines the sublime as expressed through the tradition of painting and visual culture across time. Her compositions strategically untether signifiers of space from their meaning, mingling styles and languages from diverse sources, ranging from colorfield techniques to romantic landscape painting to Instagram images of sunsets. The final compositions, found through flow-of-conscious responses to both poured paint and layers of found imagery, attempt to reflect the strangeness of the mythos of the landscape as communicated through representations that in turn influence our experience of the world. The paintings attempt to capture the cognitive dissonance inherent in our experience of nature, from its loss to its false construction, and the contemporary psychology of grasping for the sublime in a rapidly changing and untethered world.

Annie Lapin (b. 1978, Washington, D.C) received her MFA from the University of California, Los Angeles in 2007, her Post-Baccalaureate Certificate from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago in 2004, and her BA from Yale University in 2001.

Lapin’s work is included in the permanent collections of the High Museum of Art, Atlanta; Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles; Nerman Museum of Contemporary Art, Overland Park, KS; Orange County Museum of Art, Newport Beach, CA; Rubell Family Collection, Miami; Santa Barbara Museum, Santa Barbara, CA; Weatherspoon Art Museum, Greenboro, NC; and Zabludowicz Collection, London.

https://www.annielapin.com