The Art Show 2024: Alice Tippit

Timothy Taylor is pleased to participate in ADAA’s The Art Show with a presentation of new paintings by Alice Tippit. On view from 29 October through 2 November at the Park Avenue Armory in New York, this will be the artist’s first exhibition with the gallery. The booth will feature fourteen vibrant, graphic canvases that offer a robust introduction to the artist’s work, exploring the ways in which language and image tease out the erotic, playful, or even gruesome undertones of our lived experience.

Tippit’s wry, hard-edged paintings feature spare compositions of decontextualised symbols. Drawing images from the traditional genres of still life, portraiture, and landscape—fruit, flowers, vases, trees, busts, and other body parts—she distils her forms into crisp silhouettes and arranges them in a cryptic relationship to one another. While her images have the striking clarity of sign painting and Pop aesthetics, they often feature unstable figure-ground relationships, rendering their meaning elusive. Each work, painted in an intimate scale with a reduced palette of bold and pastel hues, is characterised by subtle interplays of metaphor, euphemism, symbolism, and allusion.