Viewing: Artist Interviews

Tom Patti will be the Specialty Glass Artist-in-Residence at The Corning Museum of Glass for 2015 through 2016.

Wednesday July 8, 2015 | by Emily Ma-Luongo

Tom Patti awarded specialty glass residency at The Corning Museum

FILED UNDER: Announcements, Artist Interviews, Museums, News

The Corning Museum of Glass has chosen Tom Patti for the 2015/16 Speciality Glass Artist-in-Residence, an award granted for a unique opporutnity to work with cutting-edge formulations of glass. The residency will allow the artist freedom to work in an industrial laboratory with the assistance of the museum's glassmakers, research scientists, and curators. Patti is the second selected artist in the invite-only program after Albert Paley. Beginning this month, the residency will take place in the research and design facility known as Sullivan Park, where Patti will have the opportunity to experiment with patented glass formulations from the Corning Archives, giving him the chance to further explore the medium. Known for his innovative techniques that push the physicality of glass, Patti will use the residency to further explore how temperature affects the material. Since his primary concern is to conduct research, he told the GLASS Quarterly Hot Sheet that he is going into the process without a specific creative agenda, but to simply further his knowledge of what glass is capable of doing.

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Anne Peabody, For Kelly, 2015. Drawing on 14k gold leaf on glass, hand turned and finished wooden frame. D 9 in. courtesy: the artist

Thursday March 26, 2015 | by Justyna Turek

OPENING: Anne Peabody’s glass memorial for a homeless man debuts in group exhibition in Brooklyn

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A group exhibition curated by artist and arts organizer Megan Suttles presents work created by 14 artists during the MOREart’s Engaging Artists Residency Show “Artwork inspired by working with the homeless," which opens this Saturday, March 28th, at the Hot Wood Arts Center in Brooklyn, New York. Of special note is artist Anne Peabody's painted glass portrait, which grew out of her friendship with a man with no fixed address who she befriended. Like the other artists during this project, Peabody volunteered for six weeks with homeless advocacy organizations in the summer of 2014. In 14K-gold-leaf on glass, Peabody memorializes “Gilbert Kelly,” who was shot to death by a teenager in a random act of violence. The exhibition, will run through April 19, 2015, with an opening reception on Saturday, March 28th from 7 to 10 PM.

Denise Pepper at work in the studio.

Wednesday August 6, 2014 | by Andrew Page

3 Questions for ... Denise Pepper

FILED UNDER: Artist Interviews, New Work

GLASS Quarterly Hot Sheet: What are you working on? Denise Pepper: My art practice is professionally motivated, forming sculptures that intentionally redefine common objects from the mundane. Fundamentally a glass artist, I specialize in pâté de verre glass casting, but also enjoy creating art for public sculpture exhibitions. I'm very much a maker in my art practice and desire in my art glass practice to form a unique and highly crafted pate de verre glass casting process developing innovative skills and techniques. My art glass practice focuses on the replication and presentation of detail and intricacy found in traditional lace making. I've also explored this medium with its application in fashion principally associated to undergarments.

Photo Credit Michael Schwalbe Portrait Rockriver

Sally Resnik Rockriver at work in the studio. photo: michael schwalbe

Wednesday May 28, 2014 | by Andrew Page

3 Questions For ... Sally Resnik Rockriver

FILED UNDER: Artist Interviews, New Work

GLASS Quarterly Hot Sheet: What are you working on? Sally Resnik Rockriver: In the past, I made geochemical reefs growing on underwater architecture. This theme has come back to me, except the lost city is not Atlantis, but one from our future. My new pieces have buildings that are overtaken by creatures from another place in time. I am making structures out of refractory materials and clay. I then kiln-fuse these walls with ceramic glazes and blown glass. The body of work is a group of scenes which tell the story of tension between the past and future. In these pieces, otherworldly specimens encounter the confines of an aging society. As a resolution, the bricks expand to allow enough space for new formations.

Friday April 25, 2014 | by Andrew Page

3 Questions for ... Daniel Cutrone

FILED UNDER: Artist Interviews, Exhibition, New Work

The GLASS Quarterly Hot Sheet blog recently caught up to Daniel Cutrone, an assistant professor in the glass area at Tyler School of Art in Philadelphia, and a practicing artist with a solo exhibition currently on view at the Delaware Center for the Contemporary Arts. Holding an MFA in glass from Tyler, as well as a BFA in painting from the University of the Arts, Cutrone writes in his artist statment about his work's efforts to "engender a state of questioning" and to test and challenge boundaries. Below, we present an exchange with the artist about his latest work, his inspirations, and where his work is on view.

Tuesday March 18, 2014 | by Samuel Paul

Video interview: Norwood Viviano talks about turning data into sculpture

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GLASS Quarterly Hot Sheet contributor Samuel Paul sat down with Norwood Viviano to discuss his current exhibition at Heller Gallery.

Wednesday February 12, 2014 | by Andrew Page

3 Questions for ... Charlotte Potter

FILED UNDER: Artist Interviews

As program director and manager of the Glass Studio at the Chrysler Museum of Art in Norfolk, Virgnia, Charlotte Potter somehow manages to balance all the responsibilities of running a thriving glass center with visiting artists, residencies, and a monthly program of curated performances using glass, and she also finds time to pursue her individual artist's practice. The Hot Sheet recently had the opportunity to interview Potter about her latest projects.

Diverging 2013 Torch Worked Borosilicate Glass 66 5 X 16 X 1 Inches Detail

Blowing in the Wind, 2013, torch-worked borosilicate glass, 105.5 x 10 x 10 inches

Tuesday February 11, 2014 | by Samuel Paul

INTERVIEW: David Licata talks glass chain mail

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Chain-mail technology—linked elements used as an extra layer of armor by the Roman army, Tibetan Warriors, and Japanese Samurai—is employed to create abstracted glass chain sculptures by artist and educator David Licata. An exhibition of his current work featuring four large pieces of glass chain sculptures, two wall hung pieces, and two large draped pieces—is entitled, “Sublime” and currently on view at Kenise Barnes Fine Art gallery through February 22, 2014. Recently, the GLASS Quarterly Hot Sheet caught up with Licata by telephone and asked him about his work.

Wednesday November 13, 2013 | by Paulina Switniewska

3 Questions For… Roisin de Buitlear

FILED UNDER: Artist Interviews, New Work

GLASS Quarterly Hotsheet: What are you currently working on?Roisin de Buitlear: I am currently working on three different projects. I'm about to install a public art commission, an architectural installation in a public library in Dublin, which is based on the Yeats poem, "Sailing to Byzantium." The concept is based on transient light as a metaphor for the transience of life. Alongside that, I am preparing drawings for my forthcoming residency at the Museum of Glass where I will begin a new series of blown work based on Damask linen and lace. I have a number of shows in the new year, in Ireland and Europe. When I return, I will start to make a series of drawings for two long entrance glazed screens for a basilica in Ireland at the Pilgrimage site in Knock, County Mayo.

Thursday June 6, 2013 | by Gina DeCagna

Rik Allen’s futuristic “Seeker” museum exhibition features the artist’s largest-scale work to

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Rik Allen, Seeker, 2013. Glass, steel, aluminum. H 180, W 66, D 66 in. photo: KP studios. courtesy: Museum of Northwest Art.