Marla Lipkin

Living the majority of my life in NYC, I knew moving to New Mexico would be a complicated transition.  My education was solidly culturally planted on east coast sensibilities. I attended the High School of Music and Art, graduated from The Cooper Union with my BFA, and then Hunter College with my Masters in Art. Throughout those years I had several art residences at Provincetown, MA, the Karolyi  Foundation in Venice, France and The Millay Colony for the Arts in Austerlitz, NY. I’ve taught art on all levels for over 30 years and have exhibited widely.

My work eventually gravitated  to painting the landscape of the outer cape and southern Maine.  I spent most summers and fall traveling north to those beaches and wet lands. The open sky of the ocean, and the special light at sea was alluring. I did many paintings from that region. But what I realized with time, was how much I needed space, more light, more sky.

After many visits to the Southwest, I made my move to settle here in New Mexico. The land was intoxicating for me. The endless variables of landscape, the temperament of the open sky that can be the bluest blue, and turn into the most dramatic stormy blackest sky. The alluring timelessness that constantly meets the eye, evokes mystery and wonder. Capturing that moment in time, when the light, the clouds, the weather, the land meet to create a painting. That’s what I look for when I’m out there, that very moment in time.

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