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Beth Lipman New Yorker review of exhibition at Museum of Art and Design

This glass artist’s compact mid-career survey at the Museum of Arts & Design, titled “Collective Elegy,” is a seductive, cinematic affair, well suited to Lipman’s themes and to her glittering, translucent medium. The show’s breathtaking centerpiece is presented for maximum effect: a phantasmic sculptural still-life of a banquet table, from 2015, greets visitors as they get off an elevator. The array of elements—bowls of fruit and piles of books, redolent of European painting history—are upturned by a forest of prehistoric plants. The tension between historical and prehistoric time is a through line in Lipman’s work (which also includes photographs). An enchanted pastoral sensibility, inflected by decorative-art traditions, rules. But one large piece departs from the over-all look of things. Here, enlarged images, cut out and sandwiched between plates of glass, are arranged to form a disjointed interior. According to an accompanying guide, the depicted objects are as historically disparate as a bookshelf from Frederick Douglass’s library and a typewriter belonging to the conservationist Rachel Carson. Titled “House Album,” the ambitious collage-installation, completed this year, sparks excitement about Lipman’s next move.

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Paul Scott Road Island School of Design Exibition

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Alturas Foundation is pleased to support the current exhibition of Raid the Icebox Now with Paul Scott: New American Scenery, at the Rhode Island School of Design in Providence, Rhode Island, from September 13, 2019 -to September 6, 2020.

The exhibition juxtaposes early 19th-century Staffordshire ceramic transferwares drawn from the shelves of RISD Museum storage with new artwork created by Scott during his Alturas Foundation residency.  New American Scenery melds historic printed tableware, altered antique ceramics, and reclaimed Syracuse China plates with new screen prints to update early transferware subjects for the 21st century.

Staffordshire transferware with images of American landscapes became hugely desirable objects in the 19th century, and at that time, mass-produced industrial tableware was elevated within museum hierarchies to rival the finest Meissen, Sevres, and Chinese porcelain.   Scott’s New American Scenery artwork, created for during his Alturas Foundation residency draws attention to the beauty, significance, and influence of original transferware material while examining the postindustrial themes of 21st-century America. These include industrial dereliction, borders, the physical manifestations of climate change, energy generation and consumption, and the ongoing legacies of invasion, slavery, and racism.

https://risdmuseum.org/exhibitions-events/exhibitions/raid-icebox-now-paul-scott