BETH LIPMAN’S “HOUSE ALBUM”
For more than twenty years, world-renowned artist Beth Lipman has transformed glass, metal, clay, video, and photographs into powerful statements addressing mortality, temporality, identity, and excess.
Her latest work, House Album, which is featured in the artist’s mid-career retrospective at the Museum of Arts and Design in New York, is a selective portrait of the United States that explores the timely issues surrounding agency, identity, and memory. The work is composed of two dimensional domestic objects that represent significant individuals and critical episodes in this country’s history, creating an allegory of our collective home.
The film gives insight into Beth Lipman’s process as well as the deep routed ideas and beliefs that influence her work. The concepts of House Album are visualized by utilizing the historic Pabst Mansion as an embodiment of our collective home, the United States. A stunning yet polarized house struggling to make sense of its own history and identity.
This film was generously funded by Alturas Foundation