Kevin’s work satisfies an obsession with art pieces that can’t easily be defined by the medium. At what point does drawing become sculpture and when does a wall installation become a drawing? The Heads that you see on the site crackle with chemical process and tactile overload. The shape shifting of the materials used is palpable (epoxies, resins, tar, beeswax etc.). The Heads are figurative and blunt while drawn with care and nuance. Decipher the layers and see it in person by There is more where this came from in Kevin’s studio in Bushwick, Brooklyn.
Artist + Accomplice exists to connect the collector, aka “the accomplice,” directly with with the artist through studio visits. The site features work available for sale by one artist at a time while building a collection as each new artist is presented every month.
Schedule a studio visit through A+A to meet the artist, see more art and learn about the larger context and trajectory of their work. The studio visit is strongly encouraged when and where possible, but also on the website you have the opportunity to click “own this work” to purchase immediately.
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Head 29, 2013, Mixed media on plywood by Kevin Lips
endeavors to “take it offline” and use the internet as a contemporary tool to reinvigorate the long standing model of the collector as patron and symbiotic partner– the pleasure of owning good work, so the artist may make more good work. Stay with us and watch the site grow and develop as each month brings exciting new work!