About this Event
Join us for a conversation with painter and writer Pat Lipsky to celebrate her new book, a look into the heart of her life as a leading painter, a mother, and a woman in the arts. She will be in conversation with author of Didion & Babitz Lili Anolik.
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A honest, entertaining, and observant self-portrait in which Pat Lipsky lays bare her experiences at the center of the New York art world.
For more than five decades, Pat Lipsky has been a leading figure in American color field painting. In loosely connected vignettes, this extraordinary book looks back on a life starting in 1970s SoHo: from her pioneering days juggling painting and single motherhood in a redesigned factory loft on Wooster Street; to Paris, where an enchanting friendship develops with the former director of the Louvre, Pierre Rosenberg; to her yearslong close friendship with legendary art critic Clement Greenberg; to a marvelous love affair with the charismatic art dealer Richard Bellamy. We glimpse Lipsky’s first introduction to Cézanne as a child in 1950s Brooklyn and her studies with the mythic artist Tony Smith, who would become her mentor. There is a visit with Lee Krasner at her home in Springs and another at Lipsky’s Manhattan apartment, late-night, smoke-filled loft parties, and evenings at Max’s Kansas City where Lou Reed and Nico sing in the background while rival groups of earthwork artists, pop artists, conceptual artists, and color field painters pretend to ignore each other at the bar. Along the way we experience Lipsky’s emergence at the forefront of her generation of painters.
Brightening Glance offers a stunningly self-revealing portrait of the struggles and sacrifices, joys and excitement inherent in a modern painter’s life, and captures the evergreen allure of New York’s art world between 1970 and 2010. In stripped down, elegant prose, Lipsky summons a New York that no longer exists and ponders why we love (and hate) the art world. Ultimately, it’s a story of a contemporary woman, a mother, and a painter, who dares a career in a field where only a handful of women have succeeded.
Pat Lipsky is a painter and writer. Her art has been exhibited in the André Emmerich Gallery and the Eric Firestone Gallery, among others, and is currently represented by James Fuentes. Her writing appears in Tablet, The New Criterion, The East Hampton Star, The Awl, and Public Books. She lives in Chelsea, New York.
Lili Anolik is a contributing editor at Vanity Fair and a writer at large for Air Mail. Her work has also appeared in Harper's, Esquire, and The Paris Review, among other publications. She is the creator of the podcast Once Upon a Time… at Bennington College. Her latest book is Didion & Babitz.
Event Venue & Nearby Stays
Rizzoli Bookstore, 1133 Broadway, New York, United States
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