Penland School of Crafts 27th Annual Benefit Auction
August 10-11, 2012
Here's the next in an ongoing series of Penland Benefit Auction newsletters, featuring artists whose work will be a part of this year's auction. We have invited trustees, staff members, collectors and friends to write about pieces that will be included in the summer 2012 benefit event and to comment on living with the works they have purchased in past auctions.
A few words about auction artist Beth Lipman...
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Beth Lipman in the studio. Photo courtesy of Corning Museum of Glass Studio.
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Glass artist Beth Lipman has exhibited her work widely and is the recipient of numerous awards, including a Louis Comfort Tiffany Foundation Grant, Wisconsin Arts Board Fellowship, a Ruth Chenven Foundation Grant, and a United States Artists Berman Bloch Fellowship. She recently completed Glimmering Gone, a collaborative installation with Swedish artist Ingalena Klenell, for the Museum of Glass in Washington, which is on view through March 2012. Lipman has exhibited her work internationally at such institutions as the ICA/Maine College of Art, Rhode Island School of Design Museum, Milwaukee Art Museum, Gustavsbergs Konsthall in Sweden, and the Renwick Gallery of the Smithsonian American Art Museum. Her work has been acquired by numerous museums including the Brooklyn Museum of Art, Smithsonian American Art Museum, and the Corning Museum of Glass. Beth lives and works in Sheboygan Falls, Wisconsin.
Art historian, author, and former executive director of the American Craft Council Andrew Glasgow offered to share his thoughts on Still Life with Bowl of Bananas, the glass sculpture (47 x 24 x 20 in.) Beth has created for this year's benefit auction:
Clear glass. Recognizable objects. Nothing special. Wrong. In the world of studio glass, Beth Lipman has literally blown and sculpted a new world. The initial encounter with Lipman's tabletop three-dimensional still lifes is disconcerting. Some are very large and extravagant; others more personal in size but they all relate to a moment in time that she captures in her brilliant manner. One usually thinks of still lifes as two dimensional paintings, trompe l'oeil technique giving them a perceived three-dimensionality, but Lipman presents us with an in-the-round glass sculpture that the viewer may look through and into to provide a pure, colorless experience. Lipman's work is about banquets, intimate teas, floral grandiosity and formal Victorian excess. Still life painting has always utilized technique to impress and Lipman is no different. Her work is beautiful, technically stunning but in some ways emotionally sad--overturned objects, fruit that could be rotting--in many ways like coded 16th century European memento mori paintings. The irony of deceptive clear glass is a play on the eye that will be different every time the viewer sees the work. The viewer also brings personal experience and will overlay and project himself or herself onto Lipman's tableau. In much of this body of work the Victorian elements hint at chaos, an unknown future or the change that would occur with the sudden presence of humanity. The mystery of the before or what will occur after this frozen moment in time lends excitement to what was and what will be.
- Andrew Glasgow
For more information about Beth Lipman and more images of her work, you can click here to visit her website.
________________________________________________________ Join us... Auction Weekend Tickets $375 Includes all Friday and Saturday activities Friday, August 10
Friday-only tickets $200 Cocktail party, exhibition preview and silent auction, dinner, live auction, dessert party, live music, and dancing Saturday, August 11 Saturday only tickets $250 Coffee at the studios with Penland's resident artists, silent auction, lunch, live auction, and a reception at the Penland Gallery The Penland School of Crafts Annual Benefit Auction is a gala weekend in the North Carolina mountains featuring the sale of more than 200 works in books, clay, drawing, glass, iron, letterpress, metals, painting, photography, printmaking, textiles, and wood. The Penland auction is one of the most important craft collecting events in the Southeast and a perfect opportunity to support Penland's educational programs, which have helped thousands of people live creative lives.
An illustrated auction catalog and online preview will be available in July.
Absentee bids are accepted with a $25 bidder fee. All proceeds benefit Penland School of Crafts. Penland School is located 52 miles northeast of Asheville, NC.
_______________________________________________________ Quick Links Penland Website Penland Blog Classes Support for Penland Art for Penland Facebook YouTube Flickr Penland School of Crafts is a national center for craft education dedicated to helping people live creative lives. Located in North Carolina's Blue Ridge Mountains, Penland offers workshops, artist residencies, a gallery, and community collaboration programs. Penland School is a nonprofit, tax-exempt institution that receives support for its programs from the North Carolina Arts Council, an agency funded by the State of North Carolina and the National Endowment for the Arts, which believes that a great nation deserves great art.
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