March 2020
INVITATIONAL EXHIBITION
Tai Lipan
INVITATIONAL EXHIBITION
Tai Lipan
Artist Statement
In my recent hand-cut and layered wood paintings, light is used as
a metaphor for vulnerability, inevitability, commemoration, and
celebration. Many of the paintings symbolically depict the dramatic
collisions of weather, light and the landscape. Light beams on
vulnerable trees and fields, while impregnated clouds loom closely,
threatening or spilling over in tear-like drops.
In other works, light rains down in celebration as manmade
explosions illuminate the night sky. The fireworks commemorate
freedom while triggering smoke reminiscent of war and loss.
The painterly play between the drawing lines of the horizon and
the compression of the symbolic elements, in all of the work, is
strengthened through the relief process. Color, light and form
dance between illusionistic and literal layers enhancing the dynamic.
In my recent hand-cut and layered wood paintings, light is used as
a metaphor for vulnerability, inevitability, commemoration, and
celebration. Many of the paintings symbolically depict the dramatic
collisions of weather, light and the landscape. Light beams on
vulnerable trees and fields, while impregnated clouds loom closely,
threatening or spilling over in tear-like drops.
In other works, light rains down in celebration as manmade
explosions illuminate the night sky. The fireworks commemorate
freedom while triggering smoke reminiscent of war and loss.
The painterly play between the drawing lines of the horizon and
the compression of the symbolic elements, in all of the work, is
strengthened through the relief process. Color, light and form
dance between illusionistic and literal layers enhancing the dynamic.
Tai Lipan is an Indianapolis based artist working as Director of University Galleries and Co-
Director of the Jeeninga Museum of Near Eastern Archeology at Anderson University.
Lipan also holds the position of Assistant Professor of Art teaching courses in painting, dawing and art history. She received her MFA in painting from Western Carolina University in 2006. Lipan actively exhibits her work with latest exhibitions including the
Trestle Gallery in Brooklyn, the Skyes Gallery in PA and in solo-exhibits at the Bubbler Gallery in WI, and the Evans Center Gallery in IN.
Director of the Jeeninga Museum of Near Eastern Archeology at Anderson University.
Lipan also holds the position of Assistant Professor of Art teaching courses in painting, dawing and art history. She received her MFA in painting from Western Carolina University in 2006. Lipan actively exhibits her work with latest exhibitions including the
Trestle Gallery in Brooklyn, the Skyes Gallery in PA and in solo-exhibits at the Bubbler Gallery in WI, and the Evans Center Gallery in IN.