James Lipshaw lives and works in Boston, Massachusetts. Working across many different mediums, James focuses on observing and reproducing systems of growth and organization not based in the visual. Highway infrastructures, internal organs, solved games, language constructs and social networks are all equally interesting as structures which have formed out of non-visual concerns but which can be repurposed to serve the visual, and to attempt to eliminate the need for choice in the design of marks and objects.
His work also examines the work focuses on the relationship between viewer and object. His installations include both positive and negative audience interactions: beds to sleep in, toys to take home, clothes to buy, instruments to play, food to eat; drawings infected with pathogens from hospital patients, sculptures with outstretched hands assembled from used syringes, toy electronics inviting the touch which shock or burn, sound generators which produce psychologically harmful square waves.
email: james [at] jameslipshaw.com
Degree:
B.A. in Art Practice & Art History, Stanford University, 2011
Ed.M. in Curriculum & Instruction, Boston University, 2013
Grants and Awards:
Robert M. Golden Medal for Excellence in the Creative Arts (2011)
SiCa Vision Earth Grant (2011)
Stanford Materials Grant, 2x (2009, 2010)
Shumate Award in Art History (2007)
Park Tudor Journalism and Publications Award (2007)
Exhibitions:
Bracket, Cummings Art Building, Stanford CA, June 3-12 2011
Heavenly Bodies, Solo Show, Art Sub-Gallery, Stanford CA, May 17-26 2011
Vision Earth, White Plaza, Stanford CA, April 21-23 2011
Modulations, SOMArts, San Francisco CA, April 2 2011
The Open Studio, Stanford Art Dept., Cummings Courtyard, Stanford CA 2010
A One Night Stand, Stanford Art Dept., Sculpture Gallery, Stanford CA 2010
Black Mass @ Unisex, Stanford White Rabbit Society, Stanford CA 2010
Night Don't You Shine, Solo Show, Jim Leffler Gallery, Indianapolis IN 2007
Residencies:
L'esprit de corps, Headlands Center for the Arts, October 2010. http://spiritofthegroup.tumblr.com/
Shows Curated:
kubika a bundu: the art of tying together. Mpungu from the collection of Barbaro Martinez-Ruiz. Cummings Art Building Lobby, Stanford CA, 2009.
Patterns of Transmission: From Bronze Age China to Japan's Floating World. Iris & B. Gerald Cantor Center for the Visual Arts, Stanford, CA, 2008.
Publications:
Animal Farm, Stanford White Rabbit Society, May 2011.
Lots of Girls and Lots of Drugs, Stanford White Rabbit Society, April 2011.
This IsNot A Cult, Stanford White Rabbit Society, January 2011.
Pika-Don, Stanford Graphic Novel Project. Published 2010. http://pikadon.stanford.edu/
Relevant Work Experience:
Founding Visual Arts Teacher, KIPP Academy Boston, Roxbury MA, 2013
Graphic Designer, Hyperink, Palo Alto CA, 2011 -- present http://www.hyperinkpress.com
Studio Assistant, Trimpin, The Gurs Zyklus, Stanford CA, 2011
Documentarian, Elsewhere Collaborative, Greensboro NC, Summer 2010 http://elsewhereelsewhere.org
Teaching Assistant in Creative Writing & Art, Stanford EPGY Institute, Stanford CA, Summer 2009
Groups:
Stanford White Rabbit Society, ETC. Collective
Degree:
B.A. in Art Practice & Art History, Stanford University, 2011
Ed.M. in Curriculum & Instruction, Boston University, 2013
Grants and Awards:
Robert M. Golden Medal for Excellence in the Creative Arts (2011)
SiCa Vision Earth Grant (2011)
Stanford Materials Grant, 2x (2009, 2010)
Shumate Award in Art History (2007)
Park Tudor Journalism and Publications Award (2007)
Exhibitions:
Bracket, Cummings Art Building, Stanford CA, June 3-12 2011
Heavenly Bodies, Solo Show, Art Sub-Gallery, Stanford CA, May 17-26 2011
Vision Earth, White Plaza, Stanford CA, April 21-23 2011
Modulations, SOMArts, San Francisco CA, April 2 2011
The Open Studio, Stanford Art Dept., Cummings Courtyard, Stanford CA 2010
A One Night Stand, Stanford Art Dept., Sculpture Gallery, Stanford CA 2010
Black Mass @ Unisex, Stanford White Rabbit Society, Stanford CA 2010
Night Don't You Shine, Solo Show, Jim Leffler Gallery, Indianapolis IN 2007
Residencies:
L'esprit de corps, Headlands Center for the Arts, October 2010. http://spiritofthegroup.tumblr.com/
Shows Curated:
kubika a bundu: the art of tying together. Mpungu from the collection of Barbaro Martinez-Ruiz. Cummings Art Building Lobby, Stanford CA, 2009.
Patterns of Transmission: From Bronze Age China to Japan's Floating World. Iris & B. Gerald Cantor Center for the Visual Arts, Stanford, CA, 2008.
Publications:
Animal Farm, Stanford White Rabbit Society, May 2011.
Lots of Girls and Lots of Drugs, Stanford White Rabbit Society, April 2011.
This Is
Pika-Don, Stanford Graphic Novel Project. Published 2010. http://pikadon.stanford.edu/
Relevant Work Experience:
Founding Visual Arts Teacher, KIPP Academy Boston, Roxbury MA, 2013
Graphic Designer, Hyperink, Palo Alto CA, 2011 -- present http://www.hyperinkpress.com
Studio Assistant, Trimpin, The Gurs Zyklus, Stanford CA, 2011
Documentarian, Elsewhere Collaborative, Greensboro NC, Summer 2010 http://elsewhereelsewhere.org
Teaching Assistant in Creative Writing & Art, Stanford EPGY Institute, Stanford CA, Summer 2009
Groups:
Stanford White Rabbit Society, ETC. Collective
