Pat Lipsky

Lipsky grew up in New York City. She graduated with a Bachelor of Fine Arts BFA from Cornell University in 1963, and then received an MFA from the Graduate Program in Painting at Hunter College in Manhattan, where she studied with the painter and sculptor Tony Smith.
She first showed her work in New York at the Andre Emmerich Gallery in 1970 Her work at the time was strongly in the mode of “Lyrical Abstraction.” Lipsky’s then-approach: close hues, bright color waves and bursts. In The New York Times, the critic Hilton Kramer found that the painter’s work looked both to the aesthetic past and future: “Miss Lipsky reintroduces the drip, splatter and smear of abstract expressionism for notable anti-expressionist purposes … She also demonstrates a very clear identity of her own. Her pictures are very handsome, and it will be interesting to see how she develops what is already a bold pictorial intelligence.” Since then she has continued to develop her pictorial language. Her latest pictures will be exhibited at James Fuentes Gallery, October, 2025.