Paintings by Tai Lipan

A reception of the exhibit and artist talk will be held in on February 27, from 4-6 p.m. Tai will present an artist workshop on March 25, 2020 from 3:30-6:00pm in Evans Center room 212. The exhibit, reception, and artist workshop are generously funded by the Talbot Street Art Fair and are free and open to the public.

Lipan’s current body of work is hand-cut and layered wood paintings. In her 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. Beams of light illuminate 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 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 has been a part of various exhibitions including States of Reverie a two-person exhibition, at the Millersville University Sykes Gallery in Pennsylvania and Small Works, a group exhibition curated by Sharon Louden at the Trestle Gallery in Brooklyn New York.  Tai graduated in 2006 with an MFA from Western Carolina University with an emphasis in Painting and Printmaking.  Tai is currently an Assistant Professor of Art and Director of University Galleries at Anderson University.