GLASS 117, Winter 2009-10
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 devastated but rich with the necessary nutrients of revival. Varga emigrated from the former Yugoslavia in 1995 to Australia where she has restarted her life and career, and she has found the intense bushfires of her new country “both disastrous and regenerating.” Writing about her 2007 exhibition “The Story About Red” at the Jam Factory in Adelaide, Varga said: “No other color could express all the dramatic circumstances I have been though in my life.” Continue reading
