The Humanity Project, a collaborative art project lead by perfume artist Anne McClain with product designer Lance McGregor and glass artist Alan Iwamura, will have its launch event this Tuesday at Sigerson Morrison in the Soho neighborhood of New York City. It will be the debut of Humanity Fragrance, a white lotus blossom perfume, packaged [...]
Entries from January 2010
January 30, 2010
3 Questions for … Lisabeth Sterling
GLASS Quarterly Hot Sheet: What are you working on? Lisabeth Sterling: My latest works are sandblasted and engraved white cameo glass on inked etched copper. Over the years, I’ve made choices in the direction that my work would go, often choosing between two equally good approaches. It feels good to revisit some of those paths [...]
January 29, 2010
Call for Submissions: 2010 British Glass Biennale seeks U.K.-based artists
The 2010 British Glass Biennale is now seeking submissions from U.K.-based artists, designers, and craftspeople, working in all areas of contemporary glass practice, or using glass as a key design element. This year’s event will differ from years past in a new emphasis on the juried open submissions. This selling exhibition of contemporary glass will [...]
January 28, 2010
For “Montreal: City of Glass,” Espace VERRE will host a year of special events
More details are emerging about the events scheduled for the major city-wide celebration known as “Montreal, City of Glass 2010.” This year, glass will be the theme of many Montreal museum exhibitions and activities from April through December.
January 27, 2010
3 Questions For … Ethan Stern
GLASS Quarterly Hot Sheet: What are you working on? Ethan Stern: I’ve just completed a body of work composed of hollow blown forms containing multiple layers of color. After they’re annealed, I carve and engrave pattern and texture into them. The forms are stout and heavy-looking but, like a Japanese tea bowl, they meet the [...]
January 27, 2010
Book Report: Before the Studio Glass movement, there was Andries Dirk Copier
If the story of Studio Glass is a tale of liberation from the factory, then the life and career of designer and sculptor Andries Dirk Copier (1901—1991) is a case-study of this transition. A lavish newly-published book by German publisher Arnoldsche titled Andries Dirk Copier: Ideas in Glass, Unica and More chronicles the experimental work [...]
January 27, 2010
Help Wanted: Washington D.C. glass school seeks studio coordinator
The Washington Glass School, a 15-minute drive from the White House, has an opening for a studio coordinator to do daily studio clean-ups; work with plaster, lost wax, and warm glass; install sculptural work; and assist with classes.
January 26, 2010
Corning’s Tina Oldknow to speak on the career and legacy of Émile Gallé
Tina Oldknow, curator of modern glass at the Corning Museum of Glass, will be in Manhattan next week to discuss the work of a French Art Nouveau master whose designs are considered by many to approach sculptural expression in glass decades before the Studio Glass movement.
January 26, 2010
Call for Submissions: Tennessee Tech’s Joan Derryberry Art Gallery seeks solo exhibition proposals
The Joan Derryberry Art Gallery at Tennessee Tech, a university in Cookeville, Tenessee, is requesting proposals for single-artist exhibitions for the 2011-2012, and 2012-2013 academic years. The nonprofit gallery puts on several 4-week solo exhibitions per year in a variety of media.
January 25, 2010
Review: “Full Disclosure” at New York City gallery explores issues of visibility through video, photography, and neon
The line between the visible and invisible was explored in various media at a recent group exhibition at Tompkins Projects titled “Full Disclosure.” Glass, in the form of neon, powder, and the painted image of sheet glass, figured into many of the disparate works on display.
January 24, 2010
Opening: Dynamo, a group of six Scandinavian female artists, in Berlin
On Saturday, January 23rd, Nadania Idriss New Glass Art and Photography, a gallery in Berlin, hosted an exhibition of the glass artist group known as Dynamo Glass.
January 23, 2010
A seven-artist collaborative glass studio opens today in Copenhagen
Air Force Glass Studio, a new collaborative workspace, is holding a grand opening celebration in Copenhagen’s Islands Brygge harborfront area. It will function as a studio for seven artists including the internationally known Stine Bidstrup,
January 22, 2010
A conversation with Renwick curator Nicholas Bell on the recent Tim Tate acquisition
Nicholas Bell, curator of the Renwick Gallery, a branch of the Smithsonian American Art Museum, said the recent acquisition of a multi-media work by Washington, D.C.-based artist Tim Tate represented a big step for an institution dedicated to showcasing one-of-a-kind handmade pieces because it includes an industrially made video screen as one of several elements. [...]
January 21, 2010
Opening: Catherine Labonté’s cartoon curios at CREA Gallery, Montreal
In her production line of glass figurines, Catherine Labonté‘s cartoon animal characters have an easy likeability that at times make them seem more gift-shop than Jeff Koons commentary on kitsch. But in her sculptural work of bell jar assemblages, Labonté’s characters and scenarios take on more thought-provoking aspects, though never escaping the whimsical quality of [...]
January 20, 2010
3 Questions For … April Surgent
GLASS Quarterly Hot Sheet: What are you working on? April Surgent: I’m currently involved in a new body of work that focuses on the inherent link between person and place by looking at the everyday things that make life what it is, here and now. Unlike earlier work that has focused on many different places, [...]
January 19, 2010
Industrial glassmakers feel the pressure from offshore producers (Link: New York Times)
An article in today’s New York Times looks at the plight of U.S. manufacturers of glass, who are facing increased competition from overseas, especially from Chinese firms who are alleged to benefit from unfair Chinese government subsidies that allow them to undersell domestic competitors despite the high cost of transporting heavy glass panels halfway across [...]
January 19, 2010
Opening: Exhibition of Irish glass artists at the National Craft Gallery
With an opening reception last Sunday, “On the Edge,” an exhibition of contemporary glass from artists based in Ireland and Southwest England debuted at the National Craft Gallery in Kilkenny, Ireland. The exhibition features work by artists such as Colin Reid, Róisín de Buitléar, Will Shakespeare, and Caroline Madden.
January 16, 2010
Call for Submissions: Design exhibition exploring new uses of glass invites artists
The American Design Club in association the Heller Gallery will curate and present a collection of contemporary glass design. To be titled “BREAKABLE: Glass By Design,” the exhibition is scheduled to coincide with the International Contemporary Furniture Fair which runs from May 15th — 18th, 2010.
January 15, 2010
Opening: Jeannet Iskandar’s striking spheres at Traver Tacoma on Saturday
The mathematical constant of Pi and the musical composition “Bolero” by Ravel both achieve pure expression through complicated structure, according to Jeannet Iskandar. The same can be said about about this Danish artist’s deceptively intricate glass assemblages that from a distance look like simple forms. It’s not until you get close up you understand their [...]
January 15, 2010
3 Questions For … Kait Rhoads
GLASS Quarterly Hot Sheet: What are you working on? Kait Rhoads: At any given point I’m working on three or four different pieces in my “Closed Forms,” “Sculptures,” “Soft Sculptures,” “Vessels,” or “Wall Panel” series. Right now, I’m finalizing a Soft Sculpture, made of pink glass “hollow murrine” woven together with copper wire into the [...]
