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Tuesday December 4, 2001 | by Andrew Page

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<p dir=“ltr” id=“docs-internal-guid-56547573-0ca7-4a47-6e5f-8d6898e717d6”>On September 7, 2013 the Glass Studio at Sheridan College in Oakville, Ontario will host an open studio event geared to bring together students, alumni, and other glass enthusiasts. Titled “<a href=“http://glassgathering2013.com/” target=”_blank”>Glass Gathering 2013</a>,” the event is meant to connect current students with alumni in order to promote more fluid interaction and to open up opportunities to students. Occuring at the start of the academic year, they hope the event will spark excitement and start a new annual tradition.</p> <p dir=“ltr” id=“docs-internal-guid-56547573-0ca7-4a47-6e5f-8d6898e717d6”>On September 7, 2013 the Glass Studio at Sheridan College in Oakville, Ontario will host an open studio event geared to bring together students, alumni, and other glass enthusiasts. Titled “<a href=“http://glassgathering2013.com/” target=”_blank”>Glass Gathering 2013</a>,” the event is meant to connect current students with alumni in order to promote more fluid interaction and to open up opportunities to students. Occuring at the start of the academic year, they hope the event will spark excitement and start a new annual tradition.</p> <p dir=“ltr”>The planner of the event, Megan Smith, stated that, “There’s a little bit of gap between graduates and current students, and we wanted to find a way to bring them back together. We thought of a lot things we can do.We’ve had meetings with people in the Ontario glass community to see what they wanted.” Canadian glass artist <a href=“http://www.paullrodrigue.com/” target=”_blank”>Paull Rodrigue</a>, an alumnus of Sheridan, helped initiate the idea.</p> <p dir=“ltr”>The planner of the event, Megan Smith, stated that, “There’s a little bit of gap between graduates and current students, and we wanted to find a way to bring them back together. We thought of a lot things we can do.We’ve had meetings with people in the Ontario glass community to see what they wanted.” Canadian glass artist <a href=“http://www.paullrodrigue.com/” target=”_blank”>Paull Rodrigue</a>, an alumnus of Sheridan, helped initiate the idea.</p> <p dir=“ltr”>The event will include demonstrations by instructors and other visiting glass artists, hot shop games mixing students and professionals, a silent auction with all proceeds split between GAAC and next year’s event, a photo booth and a student show of recent work. It will feature quick ten-minute talks in a separate room, which are open to anyone involved in the contemporary studio glass field, such as students who want to share their work, gallery owners, people who have owned their own glass studio, or other individuals who can give career advice based on what they would do differently.</p> <p dir=“ltr”>The event will include demonstrations by instructors and other visiting glass artists, hot shop games mixing students and professionals, a silent auction with all proceeds split between GAAC and next year’s event, a photo booth and a student show of recent work. It will feature quick ten-minute talks in a separate room, which are open to anyone involved in the contemporary studio glass field, such as students who want to share their work, gallery owners, people who have owned their own glass studio, or other individuals who can give career advice based on what they would do differently.</p> The event remains completely free. A BBQ lunch will be provided, as well as a bar location for drinks afterward. The event remains completely free. A BBQ lunch will be provided, as well as a bar location for drinks afterward. <p dir=“ltr”><strong>GET INVOLVED: <p dir=“ltr”><strong>GET INVOLVED: </strong>Sign up to donate, give a talk or demonstration, or to participate in glass games at <a href=“mailto:GlassGathering@gmail.com”>GlassGathering@gmail.com</a>. Enter the event’s t-shirt design contest by July 31st.</p> </strong>Sign up to donate, give a talk or demonstration, or to participate in glass games at <a href=“mailto:GlassGathering@gmail.com”>GlassGathering@gmail.com</a>. Enter the event’s <a href=“http://glassgathering2013.com/t-shirt-contest” target=”_blank”>t-shirt design contest</a> by July 31st.</p> <p dir=“ltr”><strong>IF YOU GO: <p dir=“ltr”><strong>IF YOU GO: </strong>Glass Gathering 2013 </strong>Glass Gathering 2013 Saturday, September 7, 2013 at 10 AM Saturday, September 7, 2013 at 10 AM Sheridan College Sheridan College 1430 Trafalgar Road 1430 Trafalgar Road Oakville, Ontario L6H2L1 Oakville, Ontario L6H2L1 Website: <a href=“http://glassgathering2013.com/” target=”_blank”>www.glassgathering2013.com</a></p>

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Tuesday December 4, 2001 | by Andrew Page

OPENING: Solo exhibition of Michael Joo
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All Access, 2011, Mirrored borosilicate glass, 35 × 15 × 12 in (88.9 × 38.1 × 30.5 cm)For his inaugural exhibition with Blain|Southern, Exit From the House of Being, Michael Joo has created a series of new sculptural works which aim to challenge and reformulate our understanding of space. Bringing together three groups of works so that they exist in dialogue, each engages the viewer in an assessment of spatial territory, referring to social, natural and personal boundaries. The ways in which we might conventionally quantify, physically experience or theoretically categorise our surrounding environment are subverted, as the materiality of each object and the syntax of the gallery space itself become fluid and unfixed.The artist’s practice endeavours to combine and foster links between seemingly contradictory states. Binary oppositions are dissolved as he brings them into balance; the physical and metaphysical, the organic and industrial, inclusion and exclusion, and movement and stasis are all explored as being intrinsically linked, one and part of the same thing. With this exhibition, Joo encourages us to consider the inherently unstable nature of space and identity. His interest in the process of material metamorphosis informs his use of unorthodox materials and techniques. Constructed from mirrored borosilicate glass, the Expanded Access works are composed of groups of delicate rope and stanchion forms which seem to simultaneously emerge from and melt into the structure of the gallery. Joo plays with the idea of malleable architectural space; the stanchions, which would traditionally dictate the rules of entry to a particular place, appear on the floor, walls and ceiling of the gallery. Thus, the artist suggests a new spatial arrangement, which does away with accepted social constructs.

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