On the occasion of the exhibition Beth Lipman: Collective Elegy, join the artist for an online studio visit and conversation with exhibition curator Samantha De Tillio and Diane Wright, senior curator of glass and decorative arts at the Toledo Museum of Art. Beth Lipman: Collective Elegy surveys the last decade of the artist's work in glass, metal, clay, video, and photography. A pioneering glass artist, Lipman's sculptural practice explores aspects of material culture and deep time through still life, site-specific installations, and photographs. Ephemeral and intricate, the work addresses mortality, materiality, and temporality. Lipman is also known for site-responsive installations that activate the specific history of objects, individuals and institutions.
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Samantha De Tillio is curator of collections for the Museum.
Beth Lipman is an American artist whose sculptural practice explores aspects of material culture and deep time through still life, site-specific installations, and photographs. She has received numerous awards including a USA Berman Bloch Fellowship, Pollock Krasner Grant, Virginia Groot Foundation Grant, and a Louis Comfort Tiffany Foundation Grant. Recent works include All in All, a large-scale sculpture that investigates the nature of time and Belonging(s), a sculptural response to the life of Abigail Levy Franks for the Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art (AR).
Lipman has exhibited her work internationally at such institutions as the Ringling Museum of Art (FL), ICA/MECA (ME), RISD Museum (RI), Milwaukee Art Museum (WI), Gustavsbergs Konsthall(Sweden) and the Renwick Gallery of the Smithsonian American Art Museum (DC). Her work has been acquired by numerous museums including the North Carolina Museum of Art, Brooklyn Museum of Art (NY), Kemper Museum for Contemporary Art (MO), Smithsonian American Art Museum (DC), Jewish Museum (NY), Norton Museum of Art, (FL), and the Corning Museum of Glass (NY).
Diane C. Wright is senior curator of glass and decorative arts at the Toledo Museum of Art and currently serving as the museum's interim director of curatorial affairs. Prior to joining TMA in 2017, Wright served as the Carolyn and Richard Barry Curator of Glass at the Chrysler Museum of Art in Norfolk, Virginia. She is a recognized scholar of the windows and mosaics of Louis Comfort Tiffany and his studio. Wright received a BA in history from the University of Utah and a MA in the history of decorative arts from Parsons School of Design at The New School in New York.
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