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LEAFY WADER
2025 Federal Way, Washington.
Lipski has spent some wonderful time in the Seattle area. In 1987—working with local artists—he created an exhibition for COCA, the Center on Contemporary Art, made from materials he gleaned from the scrapyard of Boeing.
He has been Artist in Residence at both the famed Pilckuck School of Glass up in Stanwood, WA (1990), and at The Museum of Glass, in Tacoma (2014).
Sound Transit, the Puget Sound Area’s transportation company has expanded their light rail system almost 8 miles, adding three stations. At the station in Federal Way, a town of 100,000 people between Seattle and Tacoma, Lipski created this two-story tall glass desk lamp. He was paying homage to this area, which is the historic center of the contemporary American glass art world. This was largely driven by the life’s work of Dale Chihuly and the glass world he created in his wake.
Lipski has worked with glass in one way or another for half a century.
But this is his first substantially glass outdoor public work,