DRIP, 2018
Rebecca Lipsitch '21
Color Digital Prints
Museums, clothing, cartoon characters, television, body figures, logos, music, Monet paintings, and song titles are all fair game for inspiration. Angel drawings, arcade game machines, items that are either imaginary or have an old-timey theme to them, draw me in. The thing that I love about art, is the freedom. My creative process rarely starts out with a plan. Instead, I find inspiration and go off of that. Using the ipad, I’m able to achieve this. In seconds, I can redo, undo, or fill in an entire part of my drawing. The ease and efficiency of digital art, is another reason I’m able to achieve drawings like these. I am very interested in different time periods and how they intersect. I take work I make that represents the 80’s, put it through a 50’s filter, and finally add a contemporary twist. My drawings represent the ease and freedom I feel as I create.
contemporary yellow, 2018
By Rebecca Lipsitch, ‘21
SIlkscreen on T shirts and color photographs
A contemporary meal on a shirt. Newly designed yum, with a brand stapled on top. I created Contello: Contemporary Yellow. I’ve always enjoyed drawings that pop, with a hint of abstractness to them. I wanted to create something that people would wear, with a new sort of look and feel. I love the color yellow, and feel like as I’ve grown up, it’s grown with people around me. I’ve always had a vision for contello. I’ve seen it as a Boston based brand that will end up expanding, hopefully worldwide, but with designs that differ from most brands. All would be handmade, either drawn or sewn. I’ve recently really started to appreciate fashion, but always felt like extremely popular and expensive brands were less meaningful. People wear it for the name, and less for the art piece behind it. That’s why all my clothes have my own drawings and designs, instead of just a name. It’s important to me and what I do, that my work serves a purpose; that it’s off the gallery wall, and on real people. I feel like this makes more of a statement than something you look at once and most likely forget about. You have art on you; you are the art.
Contemporary Yellow, 2017
By Rebecca Lipsitch, ‘21
Ink, Acrylic paint, Canvas, Charcoal, Pen
Contello. Contemporary Yellow. To plan names for my clothing company, I thought about what my designs were showing. I really enjoyed the color yellow, as well as contemporary art. I combined my two interests, and incorporated them in my drawings and paintings as well. I work quickly, and so do my thoughts. While creating, a new idea always seems to spark. So I think these pieces are a good representation of my brain, and all its many ways of thinking and working, just like mixed media. This term I came up with wearable designs that look modern and incorporate a visually pleasing style. My designs are abstract and unrepresentative; they come from my imagination. When I go see art and I am always drawn to the contemporary artwork, non representational and conceptual, often about ideas. In my collage, I tried to incorporate some aspects of pop culture, such as the shoes. Ink, acrylics, pen, sharpie, photographs, and magazines, are all mediums I worked with. I want to continue to make more work to coin my personal aesthetic and style.