Lino Tagliapietra’s tiny birds coming to roost at the Toledo Museum of Art

FILED UNDER: Exhibition, New Work

A smaller exhibition of 21 of Lino Tagliapietra's hand-blown birds will be installed in a gallery of the Glass Pavilion at the Toledo Museum of Art, timed to coincide with the maestro's residency as part of the museum's Guest Artist Pavilion Project from March 26th through the 28th. The exhibition will run through May 25, 2014. The birds' elaborate plumage is created using filigrana canework, and there will be three separate groupings of the magical creatures: in flight, roosting, and as a firebird rising phoenix-like.

A cluster of origami cranes hang as a proof of concept for installation at Ruckus Gallery in Philadelphia. by Jeremy Grant-Levine. AKA Germ

Wednesday February 19, 2014 | by Andrew Page

OPENING: Retrospective exhibition for the late Kanik Chung in Brooklyn

FILED UNDER: Exhibition, Opening

An exhibition chronicling the career of the multimedia artist Kanik Chung (1968 - 2013) has been curated by Victoria Calabro and John West, in association with the late artist's sister, Ling-Fong Chung. Featuring drawings on paper, sculpture, video, paintings, and glass, the exhibition entitled "Does Everything End in a Lamp!" will open on March 6th in DUMBO, Brooklyn, with an evening reception, and continue through March 27, 2014.

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

FILED UNDER: Artist Interviews, Exhibition, New Work

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.

Thursday February 6, 2014 | by Paulina Switniewska

OPENING: Vermont museum exhibition to showcase a new generation of glass artists

FILED UNDER: Exhibition, Museums, New Work, Opening

Vermont’s Shelburne Museum, which houses over 150,000 diverse works of art ranging from Impressionist pieces (such as those by Monet, Manet, and Degas) to folk art, will be opening its newest exhibition entitled, “Supercool Glass" with a reception this evening, and the show will run through Sunday, June 8th, 2014 at its location in the Diana and John Colgate Gallery of the Pizzagalli Center for Art and Education in Shelburne, Vermont. While the exhibition will bring together historic works dealing with glass from the museum's permanent collection, it perhaps more significantly represents one of the first museum exhibits that gathers cutting-edge work in glass by a new generation of artists.

Thursday January 30, 2014 | by Paulina Switniewska

OPENING: Jessica Calderwood’s glass-on-metal enameling on view in Boston

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Artist Jessica Calderwood, a sculptor involved primarily in metalwork, has spent the past decade develping a series of intricately enameled works. These glass-on-metal sculptures and pieces of jewelery will open as the exhibition "Floral Fictions: Recent Work by Jessica Calderwood," at the Society of Arts and Crafts (SAC) Exhibition Gallery in Boston on January 31, 2014.

Tuesday January 28, 2014 | by Samuel Paul

EXHIBIT: Joe Feddersen explores the intersection of Native American traditions and contemporary life

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UPDATED: February 6, 2014

Sunday January 19, 2014 | by Paulina Switniewska

OPENING: Color blooms at the Basch Gallery at Ringling College of Art and Design

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A piece by Dale Chihuly entitled The Blue Persian sold at a show in Tampa in 1993 and began Richard and Barbara Basch’s passion for collecting glass art pieces. They began with the work of American artists, and soon broadened their support of artists from all over the world. Since then, the Basches have amassed over 250 pieces for their collection, including 10 more works of art by Chihuly. The Richard and Barbara Basch Gallery at Ringling College of Art and Design in Sarasota, Florida now houses much of the Basches’ collection, most of which has been donated and is now owned by the school. Its most recent exhibition, “Che Colore!” which runs through March 7, 2014, features 33 works that have been created by blowing, casting, and other methods by celebrated artists such as Dale Chihuly, Lino Tagliapietra, and Lucio Bubacco, among others.

Friday January 17, 2014 | by Andrew Page

OPENING: Two Brooklyn exhibits open this weekend featuring dangerously sharp glass

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Two exhibitions opening this weekend in the New York City borough of Brooklyn employ the sharp edges of glass in service of very different artistic visions. In her installation and performance work entitled Always on Our Plate (2014) at Bushwick's Slag Gallery, artist Alexandra Ben-Abba investigates her complex feelings about the conflict between Israel and Palestine. Using the table set for a dinner party, Ben-Abba embeds images into the tableware, which is set with dishes as well as glass shards, chunks of stone, and cement. On Friday, January 17th, there will be a 7 PM performance in which a group of artists, curators and art critics consume a meal using these dangerous table settings as the forum for a conversation about identity and place. The exhibition continues through January 22, 2014. Not far away in the DUMBO neighborhood, Smack Mellon gallery will unveil a 48-foot-long menacing glass wall work made up of 7,200 painstakingly cut triangles of mirrored glass arranged into dangerously sharp points. The work of Robert Hickman will debut on Saturday, January 18th, and remain on view through March 2, 2014. "Although the work is fragile, it will cut you if you get too close," writes Hickman in his artist's statement about the work, which he calls "a cautionary tale of human interaction.”

Friday January 10, 2014 | by Andrew Page

OPENING: UrbanGlass spotlights work by recent graduates of M.F.A. programs

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Since 2004, UrbanGlass has been hosting a juried exhibition to highlight the best work by recent graduates of M.F.A. programs whose work features glass. The 2014 MFA exhibition will open on January 22nd in the Robert Lehman Gallery at the Agnes Varis Art Center at UrbanGlass in Brooklyn, New York. The four artists whose work will be featured are Melissa Athey (Virginia Commonwealth University); Sarah Briland (VCU); Weston Lambert (Tulane University); and Wil Sideman (Rochester Institute of Technology).

John Moran, No Child Left Behind, 2012. Freehand sculpted glass figures, polyester resin, fabric, wood, enamels. H 20, W 30, D 15 in. photo

Wednesday November 27, 2013 | by managingeditor@glassquarterly.com

OPENING: John Moran’s politically charged work debuts in Belgium this weekend

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A solo exhibition of work in glass by American artist John Moran opening this weekend in Ghent, Belgium, has potential for controversy.…