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hanging precariously.
Photographs are still
lifes, and objects will be
recognized. There’s fruit.
There are candlesticks.
Tableware anchors
a similarity in our
explorations.”
While Lipman mixes the
materials used in her three-
dimensional work, Letinsky
emphasizes the use of
porcelain.
Lipman, who has the piece
“Still LifeWith Vines” in
the collection of the Detroit
Institute of Arts, lives with
family in Sheboyban Falls,
Wisconsin, and they attend
synagogue at Congregation
Shalom in Milwaukee.
She also has done work
for the Jewish Museum
in New York. The piece
was a table composition
combining different
objects symbolic of Jewish
holidays and her personal
relationship to religion.
Lipman’s interest in art
started at a very early age
as she helped her mother,
an artist whose work was
very different. Study at the
Massachusetts College of
Art was followed by studies
to get her bachelor’s degree
at Tyler School of Art and
Architecture at Temple
University in Philadelphia.
“When I first graduated,
my purpose was not
marketing the art,” Lipman
said. “It was more just
finding a way to continue
to make work. I was in an
academic environment for
the first part of my career.
I just tried to surround
myself with opportunities
to meet people and work in
institutions that reaffirmed I
was also an artist.”
Lipman has served as
an education manager and
residency director.
Letinsky explained that
her work includes tabletop
scenes around food, the
kitchen and home.
“In the earlier work,
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Beth Lipman’s
“Scale and Gazing
Ball” (2020)
Beth Lipman with
some of the glass
pieces she uses in
her works
Details
Shifting Frequencies will
be on view through Dec.
16 at Wasserman Projects,
3434 Russell St. #502 in
Detroit. The gallery is open
noon-5 p.m. Wednesday-
Saturday. (313) 818-3550.
wassermanprojects.com.