Iittala launches limited-edition “City Bird” series with an eye on social media

FILED UNDER: Design, New Work, News

In a bid to update its 40-year-old line of Tokkia birds, and to give the series a little cutting-edge social media juice, the 135-year-old Finnish glass house Iittala is launching a limited edition of its famous blown-glass birds only available in select markets for which they were named. Only 200 numbered examples of the blown-glass "City Bird" collection will be hand-made, and obsessive collectors must travel to Shanghai, Toyko, Paris, New York, and Helsinki to buy them all.

Thursday September 17, 2015 | by Emily Ma-Luongo

OPENING: Katherine Gray’s “A Rainbow Like You” is a Feast for the Senses

FILED UNDER: Announcements, Exhibition, Museums, New Work, Opening

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Thursday August 27, 2015 | by Andrew Page

Hot Off the Presses: GLASS #140, Fall 2015

FILED UNDER: Announcements, New Work, News, Print Edition

The Fall 2015 edition of GLASS: The UrbanGlass Art Quarterly (#140) is hitting newsstands and subscriber mailboxes over the next few days. On the cover is a work by French installation artist Baptiste Debombourg, a room with massive windows collapsing inward. For her article, contributing editor Victoria Josslin presents a mediation on Debombourg’s grand catastrophe in Aerial (a 2012 site-specific installation at the Brauweiler Abbey near Cologne, Germany), considering the scene as a frozen moment just after the impact of some cataclysmic explosion outside.

Tuesday August 25, 2015 | by Lindsay von Hagn

Doug and Mike Starn create site-specific glass public artwork for Princeton University

FILED UNDER: Announcements, Museums, New Work, News, Public Art

A large-scale sculpture by identical twins Doug and Mike Starn, the duo's second-ever work in glass, will be installed in mid-September on the lawn of the Princeton University Art Museum. The site-specific sculpture, titled (Any) Body Oddly Propped (2015), features steel, cast bronze trees and six 18-foot tall colored glass panels. According to the official announcement, the sculpture “continues the artists' exploration of organic energy systems through root and branch forms that here also respond to the arboretum-like character of the Princeton campus.” An attempt to evoke the complex experience of light filtering through trees, the sculpture will play off the contrast between the permanence of the structure and the ephemerality by interaction between natural light conditions and the colored glass.

Wednesday August 19, 2015 | by Emily Ma-Luongo

EXHIBITION: Alison Lowry’s “Captive” at S12 gallery in Norway

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Alison Lowry's "Captive," a series on the brain as construct and constraint, just opened at S12, the artist-run workshop and gallery space in Bergen, Norway. Lowry's work is an ever-developing exploration of memory, and her series follows up on "A place for Everything/Everything in its place," her solo show at the Ebeltoft Museum in January. The artist's previous series will also be on display with her new works, as she continues a conversation about what the past does for us, how it carries us and vice-versa. The focus in her sculptures and installations is the body's varying ways of remembering, including the emotional and physical, the personal and collective.

Andrew Erdos and Yasue Maetake, Amorphous Terrain, 2018. Blown glass, copper corrosion stain on pulp (kozo, abaca and cotton), steel, industrial safety glass, cane and jute rope. H 144, W 60, D 54 in. photo: kariya hirofumi.

Thursday July 30, 2015 | by Lindsay von Hagn

EXHIBITION: Painter Beau Stanton’s New Stained Glass Work on View in California

FILED UNDER: Exhibition, New Work

A new work in stained glass by Brooklyn-based artist Beau Stanton is featured in “Art Collector Starter Kit III” at the Corey Helford Gallery in Culver City, CA, a large group exhibition featuring 12-inch-by-12-inch paintings from 37 artists that opened on Saturday, July 25th. The use of glass is a recent addition to Stanton's art practice, which typically includes paintings, prints, and murals.

Friday July 17, 2015 | by Emily Ma-Luongo

“Delicate Matter” exhibition in Athlone, Ireland

FILED UNDER: Exhibition, New Work, Opening

Through the end of August 2015, the Luan Gallery in Ireland is exhibiting "Delicate Matter," a show compiling the works of Karen Donnellan, Jennifer Hickey and Liz Nilsson joined together under the theme of "human existence," with each artist's series varying on a spectrum of elemental inspirations. A mix of glass, china sculpture and conceptual installations, the pieces share a spiritual and ethereal aesthetic, each medium exploring a different subject, focusing in the metaphysical, nature, and memory.

David Naito In The Vitrine Nuutajarvi Photo Sara Hulkkonen

Navid Naito exhibition in the Vitrine of the Museum Nuutajärvi. Photo by Sarah Hulkkonen, courtesy of the Museum Nuutajärvi.

Tuesday June 30, 2015 | by Alexander Charnov

OPENING: Brooklyn-based artist David Naito in Finland museum exhibition

FILED UNDER: Announcements, Exhibition, New Work

A new body of work from glass artist David Naito is now on view at the Design Museum Nuutajärvi in Finland, a historic museum adjacent to Finland’s oldest glass factory. The exhibition is one of Naito’s first international shows, and is his first show in Finland.

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Michael Petry, Bad Restorations, 2012. Image courtest of Michael Petry.

Wednesday June 17, 2015 | by Alexander Charnov

OPENING: “Michael Petry: A Twist in Time” at important U.K. art venue

FILED UNDER: Announcements, Exhibition, New Work

The Pallant House Gallery in Chichester, West Sussex has announced that they will be housing a new exhibition of the work of multimedia artist Michael Petry. Opening on July 4th, Petry’s site-specific works will populate the historical Queen Anne townhouse section of the gallery, a space famous for housing an immense collection of 20th century British art. According the the press release of the exhibition, the large exhibition will “create a dialogue with the Gallery’s historic glass collections, exploring questions of gender, craftsmanship and decoration.”

Anna Mlasowsky, Untitled Work. Made with pâte de verre process that utilizes 3D computer modeling to create basic shapes, which are laser cut and assembled.

Tuesday June 16, 2015 | by Alexander Charnov

CALL FOR ENTRIES: Glass Art Society accepting submissions for 2015 technology grant

FILED UNDER: Announcements, Call for Submissions, New Work

Applications are now being accepted for The Glass Art Society’s annual Technology Advancing Glass (TAG) research grant. The award goes to an artist or group of artists “exploring new materials, techniques, making methods, or applications of technology that will generally advance the field of art made with glass”, according to a press release issued by the artist organization..