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HUGH LIFSON

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Hugh Lifson first started using plastic wrap in the mid 60s due to a confluence of contemporary forces, reflecting the materiality of our time.

During the 1980s and 1990s Hugh Lifson worked primarily with computer graphics and subsequently returned to paint and plastic.

Hugh Lifson continuing exhibitions are at:

Among his many exhibitions, Hugh has exhibited at:

Hugh received 2nd prize at Wind and Water, Hearst Center for the Arts, Cedar Falls, IA in 2003. Hugh Lifson’s career has stretched with the first review in the Christian Science Monitor on his work at Whittingham Gallery, Boston MA. His “ Recent Painting, The Figure,” was exhibited at the Museum of Modern Art, N.Y.C. in 1962 among other places.

Married since 1961, with two children and 5 grandchildren, all of whom, Hugh says, have been wonderful companions and good supports for him and his work. Brought up in New York City, Hugh, whose play-writer father became an English Professor who specialized in Yiddish theater and mother a librarian at the school he attended, Hugh Lifson later went on to the University of Wisconsin and Wesleyan University or a BA with an Art major and his M.F.A at Indiana University, studying under James McGarrell, and transferring to Pratt Institute studying under Robert Richenberg and was a graduate assistant to Mercedes Matter.

At Pratt, Hugh understood and used the ideas and practices of the Abstract Expressionist. With Mercedes Matter, he came in contact with the most important ideas about drawing at that time.

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