ARTIST STATEMENT
The works submitted to Generations have evolved from my last exhibit of my painting entitled Enkindle from 2020 that I exhibited at WMG in 2020. I am grateful to have been interviewed by Yoonshin Park and participated in this exhibit during such a difficult year. This was my first encounter with the gallery and I have since been following both the gallery programming and Yoonshin’s Personal work.
Among the Folds Raised under the large-skied rural landscapes of Indiana, I revered the land with distant stewardship. I cared for the surface but was disengaged with the history. Hiking through creek beds I now marvel at the ancient treasures resting on the surface or embedded in rock. The ground is an ancient ocean floor, the impressions are a memoir of once flourishing colonies, now forgotten. The works in this exhibit explore these extinct communities, the diversity of species, the enormity of time, the abruptness of demise, and parallels with modern ecosystems.
ABOUT THE ARTIST
Tai Lipan is an Indianapolis based artist working as a painter and Visiting Associate Professor of Art at Marian University. 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, and a solo exhibit at the Thelma Sadoff Center for the Arts in WI.
© Tai Lipan