Annie Lapin

Art Brokerage: Annie Lapin American Artist: She was born in Washington D.C. She received a MFA from the University California Los Angeles, Graduate School of Fine Art in 2007. She has a Post-Baccalaureate Certificate from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and a BA, Cum Laude from Yale University. Annie Lapin's solo exhibitions include Parallel Deliria Iteration at the Pasadena Museum of California Art, Parallel Deliria, Grand Arts in Kansas City, Missouri, Gruppology at the Angles Gallery in Santa Monica, California, Paintings and Prints at Davenport Studio 54 in New Haven, Connecticut. Her Group Exhibitions include Living with Art: Collecting Contemporary in Metro New York at Neuberger Museum of Art in Purchase, New York; Rogue Wave 09 at L.A. Louver in Venice, California; Bitch is the New Black at Honor Fraser Gallery in Los Angeles, California; NewNowat Nerman Museum of Contemporary Art at Johnson County Community College in Overland Park, Kansas City. In her earlier work, Lapin often incorporated human figures within the unstable settings. The figures are now gone but the instability remains, a formidable force that proves seductive at times, and at others lapses into a murky, anarchic mess. When Lapin finds the right balance between chaos and coherence, the results are deeply absorbing. Many of Lapin's paintings contain horizontal and vertical lines, interwoven in a grid or the loose semblance of one. These bare hints of structure are overwhelmed by improvisational sweeps and swipes and splotches, geometric order wrestling against -- and defeated by -- juicy, organic disorder. The tension between containment and the uncontainable also animates a group of canvases in which the linen itself is the main event. Unpainted but saturated by glue, the fabric pieces ripple and scrunch, hardening into place atop a frame. Simple but dynamic riffs on academic drapery studies, the sculpture-painting hybrids are coy attempts at bringing canvas to life.