Zach Lipp

Artist, Architectural Photographer, Art Enabler

[Zach Lipp @zachlipp]

first light

[jo @whatJoSaw]

forgive me earth, i’m going away

[Steve Walasavage 🔥📸🔥 @walasavagephoto]

A timelapse of the Aurora Borealis over Lake Ontario. 💚🌌 🇺🇸

[Misfits Studio @Barbara_Chira]

The Shorter the Memory, the Newer Everything Looks

From time to time, I think about a condition in this field in which many of us labor: a hazard of working in a young medium is mistaking a new tool for a new idea.

I’m still very interested in what AI makes possible that isn’t otherwise possible, but increasingly I feel like I need to be careful not to confuse a new method of making an image with a new image idea. Working with these still-new tools keeps bringing me back to an old problem: what exactly do we mean when we call an artwork new?

Novelty is partly a function of memory: the shorter the memory, the newer everything looks.

And precedent isn’t only historical. Sometimes artists working alongside us - or only a few months before us - have already been exploring closely related territory, but disappear from the conversation when novelty is assigned to a single artist or work.

The speed and amnesia of the AI creative process, and of online culture more broadly, may have something to do with it.

I’m aware, for example, that contemporary artists including @alsoguppyme_ and @NiPetrov have been working with groups of small figures in ways that are visually adjacent to my own recent work, while pursuing very different ideas. Nice Aunties has also charmingly worked at this scale. This distant viewpoint of groups of people also has a much longer history: Andreas Gursky comes to mind. Long before that, Pieter Bruegel the Elder. Acknowledging those proximities doesn’t diminish my work; it helps me clarify what, if anything, is actually new about it.

And then I also need to keep reminding myself that newness isn’t actually what determines whether I value an artwork. Most art doesn’t introduce a wholly new idea, and I don’t think it has to. I’m just becoming more careful—particularly when talking about my own work—about claiming novelty when an idea may already have a history, or may already be present in the work of other artists around me.

I also want to acknowledge that I am not the only person thinking or writing about this subject.

(below: a new rough sketch)

[Pkok @pkok_art]

From the Pkok Collection:

Triumph
Watch

by @CLinepannetier
2023, Photography

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Gm art lovers

[Barry Butler Photography @barrybutler9]

Moonhenge. Tonight's moon pre-lunar eclipse behind the Chicago skyline. #weather #news #chicago #ilwx

[Gregorio Zanardi @GregorioZanard]

Gm

[JT @viewfinderthis]

Good Morning! 🎞️

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gm

[davidhenrynobodyjr @davidhenrynobo1]

Pipe Dreams

editioned @SuperRare

some sold, some available .055e

[alejandro cartagena @halecar2]

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NEW ACQUISITION

The @LACMA has acquired three Carpoolers pieces for its permanent collection:

Carpoolers #72
Carpoolers #78
Carpoolers #89

Thanks to the whole LACMA Photography department, but especially to Eve Schillo, Associate Curator, for caring about these works and their cultural relationship to L.A. It's been overwhelming to receive so much support and care from museums and private collections over the past couple of years. I've been working on these projects and ideas for two decades. Sometimes that's the time needed for them to mature and become relevant to a wider audience. Mexico and the US share many histories. I hope these three works contribute to expanding and understanding their cultural relationship. The acquisition was made through Kopeikin Gallery in L.A.

[focuspirate @_focuspirate]

Interference 1/1/x

Setup | A few shots ➡️

[A. L. Crego @ALCrego_]

· Aware ·

[Kevin Abosch @kevinabosch]

occupancy, 2026

[John Thurman @John_Thurman_1]

Gm ☀️

"Miasma" is my first release on @objktcom in nearly 3 years, for the @accomparts "Obsolete Matters" drop.

1/1
500 Tez reserve

[YEDAI @YedaiArt]

GM 😵‍💫

IntriCity #1

[Luz A. Otxoa @luzotxoa]

Jan Van Den Abbeel (1943 – 2018) Belgium

Geometrisch Abstract 1969

[alejandro cartagena @halecar2]

NEW ACQUISITION🫂

The Getty Museum in LA has acquired:

Daughter on the USA-Mexico Border Wall, at Friendship Park, California. 2017

Mother on the Mexico-USA Border Wall, Friendship Park, Playas de Tijuana, Mexico. 2017

The acquisition was made possible by generous support of the collectors Paula Ely and Cesar Rueda. The acquisition was done via Kopeikin gallery with whom i’ve worked with the past 14 years. I’m forever grateful for their continued support to make this happen. These acquisitions help me pursue the creation of new work and protects the future appreciation of these art pieces and themes that are so very present in the bilateral relationship between Mexico and the USA.

The works are currently exhibited in Madrid at Fundacion MAPFRE until this Sunday⤵️