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Matt Lipps (born in 1975 in Los Angeles, CA) is an American photographer. Her currently lives and works in Los Angeles, CA and teaches at University of California Los Angels.

Education
MFA Studio Art, University of California, Irvine, 2004

BFA Photography, California State University, Long Beach, 1998

Summary
Matt Lipps has spent the past decade focusing on the relationship between sculpture and photography. He has explored this connection through his use of pre-existing photographs and looking at how these images indicate cultural shifts and reflections in American society. His artistic process is methodical, often following a set of guidelines that transforms his content into a unified composition and narrative. He uses several methods including collage strategies, sculptural tropes and theater staging techniques. Lipps’s work often involves cut-out images which he finds from discontinued photographic publications and magazines. He then arranges these carefully selected images into still life scenes. These scenes are then photographed using a large format analogue camera.

Looking Through Pictures (2016)
In this more recent series, Matt delves into the simplistic nature of a still life. He explores this genre in relation to his props, and objects which take up their own narrative through his systematic arrangements and backgrounds. This series includes a cast of character which he has pulled from magazine publications, ranging from the familiar to the formal.