Born in 1949 in Washington, D.C., Mark Lipscomb began his formal art education

there at the Corcoran Art Institute. As a teenager in the 1960s, he was awarded a

full scholarship to the San Francisco Art Institute, where he continued his

education.

Lipscomb chose to prioritize artistic freedom over commercial success and

deliberately postponed exhibiting and selling his work, despite being a significant presence in the Los Angeles Art scene beginning in 1969. Forming close friendships with artists, collectors and dealers connected to the circle of Nicholas Wilder who was a close friend. Mark spent several years as Director of the

Nicholas Wilder Gallery and resumed painting in the 1970s.

Lipscomb began exhibiting publicly in the late 1980s, with successful solo shows

at Fahey/Klein (prior to its exclusive focus on photography) and Hunsaker/

Schlesinger. The Long Beach Museum of Art dedicated its entire space to a solo

exhibition of his landscapes, and his work was featured in solo and group shows at

Barnsdall Art Park, the Riverside Museum, and the Holly Solomon Gallery in New

York and other public spaces in Southern California.

In the early 1990s, following a series of life-changing events and his continued

refusal to let the marketplace dictate his work, Lipscomb withdrew from public

exhibition, even declining a solo show at the Holly Solomon Gallery. Over the next

three decades Lipscomb maintained the independence necessary to produce a body of work replete with striking images born of the freedom and courage to be true to himself.

While select works have been sold and placed in private collections, Lipscomb’s

extensive archive and downtown Los Angeles exhibition space preserve the

evolution of a uniquely creative force. He continues to paint, exploring perspective, composition, and form that challenge and expand how we experience abstraction, the landscape, and human form and ultimately, how we look at the world.