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All in Time


  • Wichita Art Museum 1400 Museum Blvd, Wichita, KS 67203, United States (map)

Wichita Art Museum

2022

Installation View, All in Time, Wichita Art Museum, photo credit: Kirk Eck

Installation View, All in Time, Wichita Art Museum, photo credit: Kirk Eck

Installation View, All in Time, Wichita Art Museum, photo credit: Kirk Eck

Installation View, All in Time, Wichita Art Museum, photo credit: Kirk Eck

 

In celebration of Beth Lipman–whose monumental, 3-ton sculpture Living History was recently unveiled in the museum’s Boeing Foyer–WAM presents All in Time, a mid-career retrospective of the artist featuring her work from the mid-2000s through today.

For over 20 years, artist Beth Lipman has used glass and other materials to create luscious and sumptuous still lifes. These still lifes feature everything from bowls of fruit to prehistoric plants to piles of books. For Lipman, each still life object speaks to identity–of an individual, a society, and of human culture in general. All in Time brings into focus Lipman’s long interest in using glass to explore issues of life, creation, decay, and death–the fleeting nature of human life and human history contrasted with the billions of years of geological time. What is the role of humanity and art in a world and universe that existed long before us? What do we create that endures?

 
Earlier Event: September 24
Collective Elegy
Later Event: July 22
Laid Table (Still Life with Metal Pitcher)