Marcia Lippman is a photographer, a teacher, a storyteller, a traveler, and a native New Yorker. Much of her work explores the passage and residues of time along with the ephemeral nature of memory. She has always, and ever, been consumed by beauty and the imperfections of aging surfaces, be it the sacred temples of India, Cambodia, Burma, Laos or Thailand, the haunting cemeteries of Buenos Aires and Eastern Europe, the sensuous paintings in museums of Europe and American, or the simple beauty of dying flowers in her own home.
She currently shows at Nailya Alexander Gallery, and has been represented over the years by Staley Wise Gallery, Paul Kopeikin Gallery, Wessel O'Conner, KMR Arts, and Yossi Milo. She taught for 13 years at The Parsons School of Design, and is currently at The School of Visual Arts in NYC.
Marcia is currently working on a piece, entitled Mother, Myself, about her adoption and the search for her birth mother. It s a story told salon style through photographs from her own vernacular (found photograph) collection and her personal family photos.
She is represented by Nailya Alexander Gallery, New York City.
CV Highlights
Grants:
New York Foundation for the Arts, Artists Fellowship, 1987
Arts for Transit, New York Foundation for the Arts and The Metropolitan Transit Authority, Artists Commission, 1988
Teaching:
School of Visual Arts, 2000-present
Parsons School of Design/The New School, l981-l994
Center for Photography at Woodstock, 1990, on Board of Advisors
NYFA, Artist in Residence, West Point, Fine Arts Seminar, 1986
Selected Shows:
The Past is Prologue, Artyard Center, 2019
Painting:Photographs by Marcia Lippman, Nailya Alexander Gallery, 2017
That Which Is, KMR Arts, Solo show 2013
Journey by Moonlight, KMR Gallery, Solo Show, 2010
Landscape Voyage KMR Arts Gallery, 2009
Water, KMR Arts Gallery, 2008
The Missing Peace: Artists Consider the Dalai Lama, Visual Arts Gallery SVA, 2007
Sacred Encounters, Focus Gallery, London, England, 2002 solo
Sacred Encounters, Yossi Milo Gallery, 2001 solo
Sacred Encounters, Paul Kopeikin Gallery, 2000 solo
Women Travelers, Staley-Wise Gallery, N.Y. 1998
The Body in Question, Wessel + O’Connor, N.Y. 1998
Delirium, Ricco/Maresca Gallery,N.Y., 1997.
The Face of Buddhism, Paul Kopeikin Gallery, L.A., 1995 solo show
Madame Gres, Staley-Wise Gallery & The Costume Institute, and The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1994, solo show
Time Recalled, Paul Kopeikin Gallery, L.A., 1991 solo show
Visions and Impressions, Staley-Wise Gallery, N.Y.,1991 solo show
The Ellis Island Project, The Ellis Island Museum, N.Y.,1990.
A-ten-shun! Photographs of West Point, Eisenhower Hall Gallery, USMA at West Point 1988
Selected Publications:
Photograph, Review of Painting: Photographs, 2017
Photograph, Review of That Which Is, 2013
Dear Dave, Essay by Lyle Rexer 2010
West Point, Edition Stemmle, 2002 , monograph
Sacred Encounters East and West, Edition Stemmle, 2001, monograph
Delirium, Aperture (cover)
Madame Gres, The Costume Institute, M.M.A.
Italy Observed, Rizzoli
Collections:
The Metropolitan Museum of Art
The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston
International Center for Photography
The Howard Stein Collection, Hope
The Avon Collection
The Leon Constantiner Collection
The Houston Museum of Fine Arts, Alan Chasanoff Collection