Unlike those artists who fetishize effortlessness and
randomness under the guise of a deskilled interest in process and materials, Lapin
accepts the daunting challenge put forth from several centuries of art history, thereby joining several contemporaries who do the same: the expressive Angel Otero and Barnaby Furnas, the moody Kristine Moran, and the linear Tomma Abts and Tomory Dodge.