In a bold new body of work, North Carolina-based Mark Peiser honors the technological breakthroughs of Corning engineers who created the largest cast-glass object ever made in the 1930s. His new sculpture Sanctuary (2009) is also a meditation on the literal and figurative concepts of negative space and the quest for knowledge.
Entries from May 2009
May 14, 2009
Following up its Chihuly exhibit, the Phipps Botanical Gardens showcases flameworked sculpture
After the success of the 2007 exhibition “Chihuly at Phipps: Gardens & Glass,” the Pittsburgh botanical garden has invited Hans Godo Fräbel, a German-born flameworker, to install sculpture in and around its horticultural displays and greenhouses.
May 13, 2009
Is flash giving way to substance in a “recalibrated” contemporary art market?
It wasn’t long ago, September 2008 to be precise, that the prices for work by big-name contemporary artists seemed to maintain their stratospheric heights and defy the crashing financial markets, most famously in Damien Hirst’s Sotheby’s sale in London that set new records even as the major stock indexes were in free-fall.That phenomenon is over [...]
May 12, 2009
Hot off the presses
The new issue of GLASS: The UrbanGlass Art Quarterly will be on newsstands on June 1. Inside, feature articles on the established and the up-and-coming.
