The new issue of GLASS: The UrbanGlass Art Quarterly hits newsstands and subscriber mailboxes this week. On the cover: Emma Varga’s 21-1/2-inch tall Red Red Sky Burning #7 (2008), made from fused, ground, and polished glass sheets, mosaic elements, and frit. This complex work is her response to Australian bushfires, which leave the landscape [...]
Entries from November 2009
November 28, 2009
Corning Christmas tree hits 14-feet second time around
Following the success of last year’s 8-foot-tall hand-blown glass ornament tree, the Corning Museum of Glass has gone almost twice-bigger with it’s new pyramid of glass orbs topping out at a jaw-dropping 14-feet. It is made from more than 2,000 individual ornaments made over at the neighboring Hot Glass Show hotshop.
November 27, 2009
Sunderland glass and ceramics students bare (almost) all for cheeky fundraising calendar
To raise money for their end-of-the-year exhibition, 12 students at the University of Sunderland’s glass department are launching a 2010 calendar featuring black-and-white shots of themselves at work in the hot shop or by the torch wearing nothing more than their boots.
November 25, 2009
Montreal non-profit Espace VERRE completes $3 million renovation
Earlier this month, Quebec’s only accredited glass art school took the wraps off a major renovation that has spruced up this 26-year-old institution in downtown Montreal. Growing out of an artist collective that was founded in 1983 by glassblower Ronald Labelle and sculptor Francois Houdé, Espace VERRE has occupied this former firehouse since 1986. The [...]
November 24, 2009
Review: Burnt Asphalt Family’s “TV Dinner” performance at UrbanGlass
With the holiday season upon us, it’s only fitting that the performance art troupe Burnt Asphalt Family would reunite at their Brooklyn, New York, “homestead” Urban Glass (where several cast members regularly rent time to work), to cook up a big communal meal. This family get-together took the form of a Saturday-evening performance entitled “TV [...]
November 23, 2009
Chappell Gallery scaling back Chelsea gallery space to focus on art fairs, commissions
Opening in Chelsea in October 2000, Chappell Gallery was early in setting up shop in what has become New York City’s red-hot contemporary art district. But then the gallery, which also had a Boston location from 1997 to 2004, has always been bold, a quality well-suited to an important outpost for emerging artists working with [...]
November 21, 2009
Starn Twins glass art project wins prestigious urban planning award
This past Thursday, the Municipal Arts Society of New York presented brothers Doug and Mike Starn with its Brendan Gill Award for their recently completed glass installation that adorns 250 feet of walls, or almost the entire interior of a Manhattan subway station. The work, entitled See it split, see it change (2005–2008), engages [...]
November 21, 2009
Seen: John Miller’s Cups Runneth Over
Tonight at 5:30 PM, Traver Gallery Tacoma will host a reception for John Miller, celebrating his week-long residency next door at the Museum of Glass. Since last Wednesday, Miller has been hard at work as a visiting artist, producing a series of larger-than-life goblets—each approximately four feet in height, all sharing in Miller’s well-known [...]
November 20, 2009
Glass reflects the multi-faceted relationship between Native American and European cultures
As has been reported in the Hot Sheet, some of the top sellers at this year’s SOFA Chicago were collaborative works that paired Tammy Garcia and Preston Singletary—a dialogue, let’s call it, between a ceramicist and glass maker. Both artists are of Native American descent and inspired by tribal forms and motifs: from Pueblo traditions, [...]
November 19, 2009
Seen: University of the Arts holiday craft sale reaches mythic proportions
After a five-year hiatus, the craft department of the University of the Arts in Center City Philadelphia has resuscitated its holiday craft sale spectacle, this year taking the Brothers Grimm fairy tales as a theme. The event’s opening party took place yesterday evening in the university’s grand hall, billed as “A Grimm Wandering” banquet. Students [...]
November 18, 2009
Opening: Glass comes alive in Jeff Zimmerman’s “Drawings in Glass” exhibition
On Thursday evening, November 19th, glassblower Jeff Zimmerman’s highly dynamic, nearly kinetic wall sculptures will be unveiled at an opening at R 20th Century, an art and design gallery in New York City’s Tribeca neighborhood.
Zimmerman’s diverse works, which straddle the line between art and design, are unified in their expression of natural movement through forms [...]
November 17, 2009
Special Holiday Offer: Give the Gift of GLASS
Just in time for the holidays comes a very special offer from GLASS magazine.
November 16, 2009
Holiday sales help university glass programs stay solvent
This week’s student-organized holiday sale at the Tyler School of Arts in Philadelphia is just one of many similar events taking place across the country as the Christmas season approaches. On November 19th and 20th, the Tyler Glass Guild will be selling glass ornaments and other small gifts, with proceeds benefiting the department’s Visiting Artists [...]
November 15, 2009
UrbanGlass visiting artist Jessica Lloyd-Jones wins British sculpture award
Sculptor Jessica Lloyd-Jones has received a 2009 Bursary Award from the Royal British Society of Sculptors, an annual prize dedicated to promoting the best in contemporary British sculpture. As a result, one of Lloyd-Jones’s glass-and-neon works, titled Capsule, will go on display at the society’s gallery in London later this week, along with the work [...]
November 14, 2009
3 Questions For … Tim Tate
GLASS: What are you working on?
Tim Tate: I’m working on several new directions this fall and winter. Winning the Virginia Groot Foundation award for sculpture earlier this year gave me the money to do some research and development. My newest videos will be shot in 3-D… you’ll actually have to wear the old style [...]
November 13, 2009
The Hilltop program and Vetri gallery team up for an exhibition
Four young artists from the Hilltop Artists in Residence program, a glassblowing school that offers classes to at-risk youth, will have their gallery debut this weekend at a special exhibition at Vetri gallery in Tacoma, located practically next door to the Museum of Glass. Dexter Russaw, Samantha Scalise, Boaz Nichols, and David Pricee will exhibit [...]
November 13, 2009
John Kiley named director of glass programs at new arts center half an hour from Seattle
A veteran of Dale Chihuly’s hotshop, and currently a key member of Lino Tagliapietra’s team, Seattle native John Kiley will bring a wealth of hands-on experience to his new position as director of glass programs at the Schack Art Center, an 80,000 square foot facility slated to open in 2010.
November 12, 2009
“Our Best SOFA Ever” — A conversation with Habatat Galleries’ Corey Hampson
Late last Sunday afternoon, with just 10 minutes left before the 2009 SOFA Expo became history, a collecting couple rushed back to Habatat Galleries display area at Chicago’s Navy Pier to tell sales manager Corey Hampson that they were going to take it.
November 12, 2009
Exhibition: Andy Paiko’s sound collaboration set to debut in Portland
Next week, Portland-based artist Andy Paiko will take the wraps off a project that has had him spending long days in the hot shop for 8 weeks straight. The end result, a collaboration between this highly skilled glassblower fond of exploring outdated machinery and composer Ethan Rose, will be an updated version of the “armonica,” [...]
November 11, 2009
3 Questions For … Tanya Lyons
GLASS: What are you working on?
Tanya Lyons: The body of work I just brought to SOFA Chicago is the beginning of a new direction, taking my ongoing examination of clothing further by including natural and found objects. The latest work brings in new details, textures, and a sense of history, allowing for an interaction of [...]
