Looking Lightly On Death
Artist Discussion, Book Signing & Tea

Sunday, October 2nd, 4-6pm

NEW YORK, NY (October 2nd, 2011) — Last Rites Gallery hosts Laurie Lipton: Looking Lightly On Death as she discusses her current show at the gallery, drawing technique, and her thoughts on the afterlife. The discussion will be held over tea and open to questions from the audience. Laurie will also be signing copies of her best selling hardcover art book Extraordinary Drawings, which will be available for purchase at the gallery.

About The Artist:
Laurie Lipton was born in New York and began drawing at the age of four. She was the first person to graduate from Carnegie-Mellon University in Pennsylvania with a Fine Arts Degree in Drawing (with honors). She has lived in Holland, Belgium , Germany , France and London and has recently moved back to the States after 35 years abroad. Her work has been exhibited extensively throughout Europe and the USA.

Lipton was inspired by the religious paintings of the Flemish School. She tried to teach herself how to paint in the style of the 17th century Dutch Masters and failed. When traveling around Europe as a student, she began developing her very own peculiar drawing technique building up tone with thousands of fine cross-hatching lines like an egg tempera painting. "It's an insane way to draw", she says, "but the resulting detail and luminosity is worth the amount of effort".