An Artist’s Insane Technique for Disturbing Times

On this recent California Sun Podcast, I spoke with Los Angeles-based artist Laurie Lipton about creating massive political works in chaotic times, her obsessive cross-hatching technique learned from Dutch Masters, and returning to the US after 36 years abroad to find America rolled back to 1955. A relentlessly productive artist, Lipton described drawing as an almost physiological need. “I use my…