Monthly Archives: February 2010
3 Questions for … Mark Peiser
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 … Continue reading
Filed under Artist Interviews, New Work
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 … Continue reading
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. … Continue reading
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 … Continue reading
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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 … Continue reading
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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 … Continue reading
Filed under Exhibition, News, Opening
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 … Continue reading
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 … Continue reading
Filed under In Memoriam, News
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, … Continue reading
Filed under Public Art, Seen
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 … Continue reading
Filed under Art Market
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 … Continue reading
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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 … Continue reading
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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 … Continue reading
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 … Continue reading
Filed under Curiosities, News
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 … Continue reading
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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 … Continue reading
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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 … Continue reading
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 … Continue reading
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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 … Continue reading
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 … Continue reading
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