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Adeline's Portal
The first is Adeline Myers. Born into a prosperous Norfolk family in 1791, this sparkling lass, fluent in French and well-versed in social graces, was to be married in 1819. Her fiance died just days before the wedding, and she never courted again. After her mother died in 1823, she dutifully served as her father's hostess and household manager until her death in 1832.
The second is Beth Lipman, a Wisconsin resident first known as a glass artist now gaining renown as a conceptual artist. For those unfamiliar with the term, in conceptualism, the ideas involved in the work transcend the traditional measures of the medium alone. Conceptual art is usually presented as an installation, and Lipman, in her recent works, has essentially married the concepts of still-life paintings with glass sculpture.
In the Adeline's Portal installation, Lipman reimagines and reinterprets items from the Myers household in clear glass. Of particular note is how she took a needlepoint sampler Adeline created around the turn of the 19th century, reinvented it in oversized glass, and then incorporated the sampler into the overall installation. It's as if the hand of Adeline is still at work through the hands of Beth.
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The first is Adeline Myers. Born into a prosperous Norfolk family in 1791, this sparkling lass, fluent in French and well-versed in social graces, was to be married in 1819. Her fiance died just days before the wedding, and she never courted again. After her mother died in 1823, she dutifully served as her father's hostess and household manager until her death in 1832.
The second is Beth Lipman, a Wisconsin resident first known as a glass artist now gaining renown as a conceptual artist. For those unfamiliar with the term, in conceptualism, the ideas involved in the work transcend the traditional measures of the medium alone. Conceptual art is usually presented as an installation, and Lipman, in her recent works, has essentially married the concepts of still-life paintings with glass sculpture.
In the Adeline's Portal installation, Lipman reimagines and reinterprets items from the Myers household in clear glass. Of particular note is how she took a needlepoint sampler Adeline created around the turn of the 19th century, reinvented it in oversized glass, and then incorporated the sampler into the overall installation. It's as if the hand of Adeline is still at work through the hands of Beth.
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