In this work, light is used as a metaphor for vulnerability, inevitability, commemoration, and celebration. Many of the paintings symbolically depict the dramatic collisions of weather, light, and the landscape.

Beams of light illuminate vulnerable trees and fields, while impregnated clouds loom closely, threatening or spilling over in tear-like drops.

In other works, light rains down in celebration as man-made explosions illuminate the night sky. The fireworks commemorate freedom while triggering smoke reminiscent of war and loss.

The painterly play between the drawing lines of the horizon and the compression of the symbolic elements, in all of the work, is strengthened through the relief process.

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 the latest exhibitions including the Trestle Gallery in Brooklyn, and a solo exhibit at the Thelma Sadoff Center for the Arts in WI.

Architecture of Light