Monthly Archives: November 2009
SOFA CHICAGO 2009: Thoughts a Day After
With SOFA CHICAGO 2009 a wrap, it’s time to take a moment to reflect on the meaning of the frenzied three-day art extravaganza. While it’s impossible to fully digest the experience only a day after, there are a few thoughts … Continue reading
Filed under Art Market, Events, News
Seen: Sold at SOFA CHICAGO, Day Two
Saturday morning, at the Art Alliance for Contemporary Glass’s annual meeting that takes place at SOFA CHICAGO each year, there was a call for a quick show of hands for those who had purchased artwork in the previous 12 months. … Continue reading
Filed under Art Market, New Work, News
Seen: Sold at SOFA
2009′s SOFA, the annual exposition of the latest in art made of craft media, opened last night in Chicago. Tammy Garcia’s collaboration with Preston Singeltary, pictured above, was the best seller of opening night and Friday. What follows are a … Continue reading
Filed under Seen, Uncategorized
Book Report: Venice. 3 Visions in Glass
A weighty catalog featuring the work of Cristiano Bianchin, Yoichi Ohira, and Laura de Santillana is now available, coinciding with the October 29th opening of the comprehensive Venice: 3 Visions in Glass at Barry Friedman Ltd. in New York. As … Continue reading
Filed under Book Report, New Work
Woven glass designers tout “secret techniques” in kiln-formed work
On Friday, November 7th, glass designers Eric Markow and Thom Norris will return to the Maryland art gallery and studio where they studied kiln-formed glass technique five years ago for an exhibition of their latest woven glass creations that have … Continue reading
Filed under Exhibition, New Work
A funeral for Venice calls attention to a population in crisis
On November 14, a Venetian businessman named Matteo Secchi and friends will host a mock funeral for their beloved hometown. Part of a group of citizens concerned about the exodus of permanent residents, Secchi is making good on a promise … Continue reading
The Kamm Teapot Foundation’s search for a museum home continues
David Gignac’s Celestial Teapot, at left, demonstrates how a familiar object can become something otherworldly — a glass orb of a teapot re-envisioned as the moon rising over the spindly branches of a steel tree. Perhaps such transformative possibilities are … Continue reading
