Matt Lipps

Matt Lipps (born 1975) is an American photographer and artist.

Early life and education Lipps was born in 1975 in Oakland, California.

Work Matt Lipps has spent the past decade focusing on the relationship between sculpture and photography. His photo-sculptures "simultaneously catalogue, lament, and celebrate photography's 21st-century transformations." His artistic process is methodical, often following a set of guidelines that transform his collaged elements into a unified composition and narrative. His photographic constructions rely on collage strategies, sculptural tropes and theater staging techniques. Lipps uses cut-out images that he finds in discontinued photographic publications and magazines, arranging these images to create still life photographs. He then photographs these scenes using a large format analog camera.

Library (2013-2014) Lipps's Library series (2013-2014) stems from the 17-volume Library of Photography, an at-home photography primer published in the early 1970s by Time Life, Inc.

HORIZON/S (2010) With images taken from the popular 1950s American arts and sculpture magazine, Horizon, HORIZON/S acts as an archive of visual culture. These large diorama style groupings of modernist icons are set against bright yet minimal backdrops. Lipps uses acid lights to create colored shadows behind the cut-out figures, creating a lifelike and 3-dimensional aspect to Lipps's work. HORIZON/S is a "cerebral [investigation of context], mining the perceptions and strategies of Anthropology and Art History." Library, Danziger Gallery, New York, NY, 2015 Matt Lipps' Library, Marc Selwyn Fine Art, Los Angeles, CA, 2013 Horses, The Office, Huntington Beach, CA, 2008 Cut, Harvey Levine Gallery, Project Room, Culver City, CA, 2006

Collections His works are held in the collections of: the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, the Hammer Museum (Los Angeles, CA), The Saatchi Gallery (London, UK), and the Pilara Foundation Collection at Pier 24 (San Francisco).