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LOUIS GIPPETTI

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  • Community of Residence:  Somerville
  • Email:        lougippetti@yahoo.com
  • Phone:       617-645-4995  
  • Website:   www.louisgippetti.com
                      
  • Artist Biography:  I did not have to choose to be an artist. I had what became known as ADHD and from an early age ‘art’ was the only thing I could do well in public school (like drawing on my desks, text books and in my notebooks). After high school, I went to a studio art school (no academics) in New York City and did very well there. After that, I moved to New Haven to grad school for an MFA in painting. I moved to Boston in 1974, found my first art studio, taught a lot of drawing classes, met my future wife, and then got married.  My wife gave birth to our (exceptional) baby daughter and 9 years later our baby son was born. I got a job teaching painting and drawing at the Museum School in Boston and stayed for 27 years. Thanks to my wife’s’ great help, we bought a painting studio in a building that had been bought by a large number of artists. All the studios were commercially- and residentially-zoned. For 30 of the years I’ve had this studio, it was my workspace only. Two years ago, I moved into the studio where I now live and 
          do my art.

          In 1996, my wife was diagnosed with ovarian cancer and passed away 3 years later. This event greatly
          affected my work.  Until that time, almost all of my work focused on portraits and figure painting scaled
          to ¾ life size images. After this point my work changed in dimension, imagery and content. The aver-
          age size of paintings was now 16”x 20”. The reason for shrinking the size of my work was that I’d become
          a single parent of two children which required a lot of my time, so I was unable to go to my studio to
          work on larger paintings and then leave these paintings in a condition that would allow me to continue  
          working on them easily.  

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riting to you here, it is difficult for me to fully explain how the purpose and meaning of my work has
          changed.  I'd be delighted to share more in conversation. Please give me a call. 


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  • Title of Artwork:  Jeanie Reading A Book
  • Medium: Oil on Canvas
  • Dimensions: 38"H x 30"W
  • This artwork is for sale      
  • Description: Jeanie was a model who posed for a class I was teaching in Cambridge MA.
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  • Title of Artwork:  Mary D Sitting In My Studio
  • Medium: Oil on Canvas
  • Dimensions: 40"H x 30"W
  • This artwork is for sale      
  • Description: I met Mary Dee in a drawing class I was teaching.  
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  • HOME
  • OUR TBZ ARTISTS
  • ARTISTS GALLERIES
    • LIORA BLOUWOLFF
    • AURORA KESNER
    • DANIELLE MORGENBESSER
    • LINK RIBNER
    • LEAH ABRAHAMS
    • RICK BANKHEAD
    • JOEL BERENBAUM
    • SHEILA BERENSON
    • MEL BROWN
    • JAMES COHEN
    • MIRIAM ROSALYN DIAMOND
    • ELLEN FOUST
    • LAUREN GARLICK
    • LOUIS GIPPETTI
    • CAROL GLASS
    • DAN KIRSCHNER
    • JUDY KUMMER
    • MISIA LANDAU
    • NAOMI RIBNER
    • SUSAN SCHNEIDER
    • JULIE SEEGER
    • BETSY SHOWSTACK
    • BEVERLY SKY
    • ALLEN M. SPIVACK
    • DAVID STRAUSS
  • CONTACT US