GLASS Quarterly Hot Sheet: What are you working on?
Mark Peiser: I’m working on the seventh piece of the “Palomar” series I began in 2007. I’ve always considered thinking about my work to be part of it. Having been pretty much snowed in for the last two months, I’ve had opportunity to sort out [...]
Entries from February 2010
February 28, 2010
3 Questions for … Mark Peiser
February 25, 2010
North Lands releases 2010 Conference and Master Class schedule
Organized around the theme of “Form,” the North Lands Creative Glass 2010 Conference and Master Classes program will feature a diverse lineup of five artists working in glass and one in clay, whose technical and expressive abilities may well make the epic trek to the windswept Northeast coast of Scotland worth the flight and long [...]
February 24, 2010
Curator Kelly Conway to discuss Chrysler Museum’s glass collection in New York City lecture
The glass curator at the Chrysler Museum of Art in Norfolk, Virginia, will be in New York City next week to deliver a lecture entitled “What’s New in Glass at the Chrysler Museum.” On Tuesday, March 2, at 7 p.m. at the monthly meeting of the New York Metropolitan Glass Club, a group of collectors, [...]
February 23, 2010
Book Report: Keith Cummings surveys kiln-formed glass sculpture
Contemporary Kiln-Formed Glass: A World Survey
By Keith Cummings
($55, University of Pennsylvania Press)
Following up on his 1997 book, Techniques of Kiln-Formed Glass, British artist and professor Keith Cummings sets out to go beyond technical matters and survey the full range of artwork being produced in glass from the kiln. Looking at everything from enameling [...]
February 22, 2010
3 Questions For … Gene Koss
GLASS Quarterly Hot Sheet: What are you working on?
Gene Koss: I’m currently working on a monumental sculpture 13-by-10-by-30 feet titled Line Fence. It’s inspired by the feeling of a particular site in the Wisconsin landscape. I’m in the metal fabrication stage now working with the fabrication shop. I’ve already spent two years in research [...]
February 19, 2010
Opening: Roni Horn’s cast glass sculptures at Boston’s ICA
Conceptual artist Roni Horn is known for using sculptural materials to play with the viewer’s perception. Her current show “Roni Horn aka Roni Horn,” opens today at the Institute of Contemporary Art in Boston, and includes photography, drawing, and metals such as copper and gold. But the most dramatic pieces are her massive glass castings.
February 18, 2010
Cancer surivivor turns handblown votives into five-store retail success story
What do you get when you combine an expertly-merchandised handmade product selling at an affordable price-point ($40), coming in a dizzying range of hues (collect them all!), boxed in environmentally conscious packaging, and offering a compelling story of survival and charity? The answer is the retail sensation known as glassybaby, a Seattle-based company that saw [...]
February 17, 2010
Call for Donations: Dan Klein Memorial Fund accepting artworks
Artists looking for a way to donate to the Dan Klein Memorial Fund set up in 2009 to honor the life and work of Dan Klein (1938 – 2009) are encouraged to designate a single work of art that will be included in an upcoming exhibition. When this work is sold, the proceeds can be [...]
February 16, 2010
Seen: Vividly colored panels made up of layers of glass elements redefine airport footbridge
The walkway between the ticketing area and the gates at Houston’s William P. Hobby Airport has been enlivened by six massive glass panels installed along the windows of the connecting bridge in an installation entitled Over Houston (2009). The project, just the latest by prolific public artist Gordon Huether, employs 20-foot by 12-foot acid-etched and [...]
February 15, 2010
Guest Blogger: Glass as tourist attraction (Part II)
Editor’s Note: This is the second posting by guest blogger Lauren Fujii who asks whether using Studio Glass to build tourism is ultimately good for the artists or the work they produce. Part I can be read here.
Douglas Lloyd Jenkins, director of the Hawke’s Bay Museum and Art Gallery in Wanganui, New Zealand, and [...]
February 14, 2010
BAGI auction results down from 2009 but deemed a success
Raising approximately $10,000 less than in 2009, the organizers of the 9th annual Great Glass Auction to support the Bay Area Glass Institute are calling it a success with $110,000 in total monies generated by the event. About 110 people attended the auction on February 6th, 2010, in San Jose, California, to raise money [...]
February 12, 2010
Book Report: The stained glass of Albinas Elskus
Albinas Elskus: Artist of Beauty and Vision
By Beatrice Kleizaite-Vasaris
M.K. Ciurlionis National Musuem of Art
$50, order via kulturostaryba@gmail.com
Like many stained-glass aritsts, Lithuanian-American Albinas Elskus (1926 – 2007) designed for studios that primarily produced liturgical windows such as Karl Hachert Studio in Chicago and Durham Studios in New York. Yet examples of his work during this [...]
February 11, 2010
Opening: Markus Åkesson’s “Bestiary” at Sweden’s national museum of glass
At 2 PM on Saturday, February 13th, the Smålands Museum in Sweden will be hosting an opening reception for an exhibition of the unsettling glass forms of Markus Åkesson. Entitled “Bestiary,” the exhibition will feature work seeking to reconnect with an earlier era when totems and ritualistic objects brought man and nature closer in more [...]
February 11, 2010
Glass Curiosity: Spray-on liquid glass could transform everything from agriculture to surgery
UPDATED 02/10/10; 4 PM
Nanopool, a German nanotechnology and surface-refinement company, has released an innovative coating that may one day be sprayed on “every product you purchase,” according to Nanopool’s U.K. product manager Neil McClelland. Liquid Glass, technically termed, “SiO2 ultra thin layering,” is composed simply of silicon dioxide (glass) in water or ethanol, and produces [...]
February 10, 2010
Recent exhibition shows wide variety in contemporary flameworked sculpture
Shaping glass at the the torch offers unique potential to render details with a delicacy difficult to achieve in hot-worked furnace glass, or even by casting into molds. The results can range from highly realistic botanical studies, as in the work of Paul Stankard, to the nuanced replicas of discarded plastic bottles in Matt Eskuche’s [...]
February 9, 2010
Glass gets a unique showcase in grand Tel Aviv gallery that charges admission
There are several aspects of Tel Aviv’s Litvak Gallery that makes it unique. One of the most unusal is that it charges admission to the public. While the entrance fee of 48 shekels (about US $13) is waived for serious clients, some days bring hundreds of paying visitors, many of whom are seeing glass sculpture [...]
February 7, 2010
Seen: Warren Langley’s major commission for Shanghai World Expo 2010
Warren Langley has been commissioned to create an eye-catching light sculpture that is set to dazzle the 70 million visitors expected to attend the 2010 Shanghai World Expo, China’s international fair of culture and technology from May 1 through October 31, 2010. Providing the backdrop to business presentations at the Australia Pavilion at the expo, [...]
February 6, 2010
Seen: Phallic glass sculptures on display in Midtown Manhattan
“Rubbers: the Life, History and Struggle of the Condom,” the exhibition that opened February 4th at the Museum of Sex in the heart of Manhattan, includes historical objects, video, photography, and sculpture. Randy Polumbo, an artist known for his glowing rubber sex toy sculptures as well as his resin and plaster condom castings, had [...]
February 5, 2010
Bay Area Glass Institute gears up for auction weekend, starting with preview tonight
From 6 to 9 PM tonight, the ninth annual Great Glass Auction to support the Bay Area Glass Institute will be holding its preview event at the Fourth Street Summit Ballroom in San Jose, California. In addition to looking over the donated artworks that will go up for auction during tomorrow’s main event, there will [...]
February 4, 2010
Facing closure, the oldest glass program in Europe wins a reprieve—now comes the hard part
Just three years after celebrating its 150th anniversary, The Secondary School of Glassmaking in the Czech town of Kamenický Šenov in Northern Bohemia was suddenly facing an uncertain future. In December 2009, the school, which trains students for professions in the glass industry and has been in continuous operation since [...]
