Brandon
Lipchik

Brandon Lipchik born in Erie, (US), 1993. Lives and works in Brooklyn, (US).

Lipchik’s images, rendered on the computer and then transferred by hand to canvas, revolve around the pool, the backyard, the neatly mown lawn as physical manifestations of the American dream, the garden and the suburb as mythologically charged sites of homoeroticism and death. The cubist, collaged aesthetic of the figures, who stare into mirrors, at smartphones and water surfaces, recall early 1980s computer animations, a kaleidoscopic visual language, in which myth, technology, and magic intersect. With animalistic figures interacting with the anonymous, avatar-like figures, nature itself becomes an active protagonist as well.
Under cosmic starry skies, in sparkling pools, a speculative story unfolds about class, sexuality, identity, and ecology. With latest body of work, Lipchiks practice returns to the moment when one recognizes oneself in the water, in the mirror, in the avatar of a game, and senses its future manifestations, in Audre Lordes’ words, “nameless and formless, about to be birthed, but already felt”.