What is it about the dress? Is it its curves or how it falls on the body, the material used, or perhaps the personality underneath? What is it about the form that makes the dress both elusive and captivating? Perhaps that’s why artists such as Karen LaMonte, who creates life-size cast-glass dresses, have achieved such [...]
March 1, 2010
Hot Off the Presses: GLASS 118, Spring 2010
The new issue of GLASS: The UrbanGlass Art Quarterly hits newsstands and subscriber mailboxes today. On the cover: A detail of Beth Lipman‘s Still Life with Grapes (2007), a C-print that measures 29-inches high by 36-inches wide. Lipman’s icy three-dimensional realizations of opulent tableware on overcrowded tabletops are a frosty take on the excesses of [...]
