Ish Lipman's expressive oil paintings of sky, sea, and rolling hills populated by tiny figures investigate the complexities of the sublime in relationship to the contemporary landscape. Drawing upon our growing alienation from the natural world, Lipman’s paintings seek to explore this rift, aiming to examine the various anxieties and reveries that emerge from healing this inner divide. The paintings emerging from these investigations have a similar existence to those moments between sleeping and waking, where the world is colored with the aftertaste of a vivid dream.

Ish Lipman (b. 1995, San Francisco, CA) is a Los Angeles-based artist. He graduated from the University of California Santa Cruz in 2018 and attended the Skowhegan School of Painting and Drawing in 2019. He received his MFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago in 2022. Solo and two-person exhibitions include Harpers (NYC, NY), Harpers (East Hampton, NY), Long Story Short (Paris, FR), Andrew Rafacz (Chicago, IL), Praz-Delavallade (Los Angeles, CA). Group exhibitions include NADA Miami, Nada New York, Make Room LA (Los Angeles, CA), Hair and Nails at Easy Does It (Los Angeles, CA).