Malcolm Liepke | Preview: Opening Reception: November 23 5-8pm | Artist Present

Malcolm Liepke was born in 1953 in Minneapolis, Minnesota and studied at the Art Center College of Design in Pasadena, California before moving to New York to work as a commercial illustrator under publications such as Time, Forbes, and Newsweek. Liepke began studying artists such as John Singer Sargent, Edgar Degas, Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, Diego Velázquez, James McNeill Whistler, and Édouard Vuillard setting his place in the contemporary art scene as a leader in the resurgence of figurative painting.

Leipke’s artworks have been presented on the covers of Time, Newsweek, Forbes and Fortune and are now in the collection of the Smithsonian Institution and the Brooklyn Museum. His work has been widely exhibited at venues such as the Pastel Society of America, the American Watercolor Society, the National Academy of Design, and the National Arts Club. Leipke’s work focuses on figurative paintings and drawings of intimate moments of sensual pleasure and introspection.

 

Malcolm will be at Rukaj Gallery for the opening reception on November 23rd from 5-8pm.