Viewing: New Work

Tuesday April 14, 2015 | by Emily Ma-Luongo

Chihuly takes over Norfolk, Virginia, with garden installation and opera set

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

The glass artwork of Dale Chihuly is taking center stage this month in the city of Norfolk, Virginia, site of the Chrysler Museum of Art Glass Pavillion. “Chihuly In The Garden” at the Chrysler Museum of Art, is an outdoor installation currently on view in the museum’s waterfront garden, where it showcases Chihuly’s "Reeds" and "Marlins" in natural lighting outside of the confines of the galleries. The second place to see Chihuly's work is onstage, where it will be featured in two performances of Bela Bartok’s “Bluebeard’s Castle” taking place as part of the Virginia Arts Festival (April 18th & 19th). The opera, which will be performed by the Virginia Symphony Orchestra and held in Chrysler Hall, will utilize six Chihuly sculptures as set pieces to the performance.

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Sunday April 12, 2015 | by Justyna Turek

OPENING: The touring “European Glass Experience” exhibit moves to Venice

FILED UNDER: Design, Events, Exhibition, Museums, New Work, News, Opening

On Saturday, April 18th, The Murano Glass Museum in Murano, Italy, will present the final international exhibition of the European Glass Experience project curated by director Chiara Squarcina. After two years of showcasing the artworks and sketches in Finland, Spain, and Portugal, the upcoming show is considered as the most important one due to larger number of artworks and the historic venue. Almost 80 international artists will present their works to the public. On a special note are the sketches, designed by the artists, which were selected by the scientific committee to be produced by Consorzio Promovetro’s Murano glass masters.The exhibition will run through June 7, 2015, with an opening reception on Saturday, April 17th, starting at 6.30 PM with special conference with remarks by Milan Hlaveš, curator at the Museum of decorative arts in Prague, and Gabriella Belli, director of the Fondazione Musei Civici di Venezia and it will continues to the official opening at 7.30 PM. (Disclosure: The author Justyna Turek is one of the artists whose work will be exhibted.)

Friday April 3, 2015 | by Justyna Turek

OPENING: Ione Thorkelssohn’s dual exhibitions in Ottowa engage biologies synthetic and natural

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On Saturday, April 11th, the L.A. Pai Gallery in Ottowa, Ontario, will present the work of glass sculptor Ione Thorkelssohn at “Emerge Establish Emerge,” a group exhibition showcasing the work of four artists working in two distinct styles: glass sculpture and art jewelry (the other glass artist featured is the kiln-cast work of Cheryl Wilson Smith). An older marine-biology-inspired work by Thorkelssohn, mD31704: partial reconstruction of marine avifauna, will provide an excellent example of her probing of organic forms for universal truths, celebrating the wonder and complexity of the natural world. A concurrent solo exhibition of the Manitoba-based artist's work provides a fascinating counterpoint. Since 2012, when she heard news of a new life form being created in a science lab, Thorkelssohn has wrestled with the implications of this watershed event, one she saw far less debate or discussion of than she expected. Her concerns are given physical form in her solo exhibition "Synthia's Closet," which will be on view at the Ottowa School of Art from April 9 through May 14, 2015.

Tuesday March 31, 2015 | by Emily Ma-Luongo

OPENING: Susan Glasgow Taylor exhibit at PS Gallery to include live modeling of chandelier dress

FILED UNDER: Events, Exhibition, New Work

On Thursday, April 2, artist Susan Taylor Glasgow will give a talk about her new exhibition at the PS Gallery in Columbia, Missouri. The next day, her ideas will come to life as a live model exhibits one of her signature chandelier dresses for the opening reception on Friday evening. With a focus on her wearable work, Glasgow's talk will explore how she transfers her “domestic” skills of dressmaking into glass pieces that appropriate 1950s imagery. Several of her "Spring 2015" pieces are sewn, fitted glass components stitched together with nylon ribbon, resulting in compact, dressy handbags and colorful slices of cakes. They will be on view through May 30, 2015.

Wednesday March 4, 2015 | by Justyna Turek

OPENING: Close-up, works by Josepha Gasch-Muche reveal their strong emotional qualities

FILED UNDER: Exhibition, New Work, News, Opening

On view at Galerie B in Baden-Baden, Germany, through June 13, 2015 is a solo exhibition of the remarkable glass assemblages of Josepha Gasch-Muche. Titled “Cube,” the gallery show features two new works in addition to several pieces made between 2010 and 2014. Using overlaid thin glass elements, Gasch-Muche invites us into a geometric world where the complex surfaces and intricate lighting veers close to chaos but is ordered and made comprehensible by the careful attention to structure. From a distance, Gasch-Muche’s art pieces look like creations of cold perfection with sharp cutting edges, but they come to life when you come closer to see the sublime tenderness and vulnerability evident in the fragile quality of crystal glass elements.

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Thursday August 7, 2014 | by Elena Tafone

OPENING: “New Works” from Tobias Møhl debut at Traver

FILED UNDER: Exhibition, New Work, News, Opening

Venetian inspired, but with an unmistakable Scandinavian twist, the glass work of Tobias Møhl is simplistic, yet striking. His blown glass platters, vessels, and bowls, almost exclusively in shades of black, gray, and white, are characterized by lace-like intricacy surrounded by flowing, clean lines. The Danish artist’s newest exhibition—aptly titled “New Works”—will be on display at the Traver Gallery from August 7th through the 31st.

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.

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Hiroshi Yamano's From East to West "Scene of Japan" (FS #159), H 18 1/2, W 26, D 17 3/4 in.

Friday August 1, 2014 | by Andrew Page

OPENING: Hiroshi Yamano’s “Branches” exhibition explores natural beauty

FILED UNDER: Award, Exhibition, New Work, News, Opening

Art, at its best, is interpretation. It allows the viewer, for a brief time, to share in the artist’s perspective on reality, be it the physical or the metaphysical — and gain new insights into one's own experience as a result. In the joint exhibition “Branches,” which opens at the LewAllen Galleries in the Santa Fe Railyard on August 8, artists Hiroshi Yamano and Pedro Surroca offer up different perspectives on the understated beauty of tree branches.

Saturday July 26, 2014 | by Andrew Page

OPENING: Jim Loewer’s Asian-influenced bowls and vases featured in museum shop exhibit

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

The Alternatives Museum Shop at the Delaware Center for the Contemporary Arts will feature the intense colors of Jim Loewer's glass vessels in a special exhibition debuting July 31st and running through September 25th, 2014. Based in Philadelphia, Loewer was trained as a painter, but now devotes himself to flamerworked borosilicate glass vases and bowls based on forms influenced by Japanese vesselware. He is self-taught and appreciates slight irregularities in his work which adds to their character.

John Ditchfield, Organic Mushroom Lamp (from the "Unique Collection" series).

Friday July 25, 2014 | by Lindsay von Hagn

EXHIBITION: Contemporary Glass Society showcases Northern UK glass artists in “Glass in the Bank”

FILED UNDER: Announcements, Exhibition, New Work, News

The work of ten glass artists from the Northern United Kingdom is currently on display in “Glass in the Bank”, an exhibition housed in the Lytham Heritage Centre in Lytham St Anne’s, Lancashire in England. The exhibition was organized by Northern Hub of The Contemporary Glass Society, an organization that aims to support both emerging and established artists working in glass and to promote contemporary glass within the scope of the greater art world. To this end, the CGS organizes exhibitions, publishes Glass Network magazine, and holds conferences and workshops.

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