Davide Salvadore, Sentinel, 2009. Blown, cut, and laminated glass. $200,000. courtesy: habatat galleries
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.
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Andy Paiko and Ethan Rose, Transference (detail), 2009. Glass and mixed-media sound installation. Dimensions variable. photo: heather zinger
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 The end result, a collaboration between this highly skilled glassblower fond of exploring outdated machinery and composer Ethan Rose, will be an updated version of the “armonica,” as developed by Benjamin Franklin, as part of an installation called “Transference” on view at the Museum of Contemporary Craft in Portland, Oregon, from November 19th through January 9, 2010.
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