Judith Schaechter, You Are Here, 2007. Stained glass, sandblasted, engraved, vitreous paint; assembled with copper foil. H 37, W 26 in. courtesy: the artist
Visitors to the Glazen Huis – Flemish Center for Contemporary Glass Art in Lommel, Belgium, can see subversive stained glass windows, precise geometric wall panels, photographs of Ziegfeld girls suspended in glass, hyperrealistic mosaic portraits, and much more in just one ambitious exhibition, “THE GLASS CANVAS - Glass as a canvas, a carrier through history.” It joins the bold, often dark work of contemporary glass artists such as Judith Schaechter, Wim Delvoye, Maria Dukers, Lada Semecká, Sybille Peretti, Andrea Salvador, Judith Röder, and Deborah Sandersley, among others, with centuries-old stained glass windows, verre églomisé pieces, glass medallions, antique mirrors, and glass negatives.
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