Viewing: Opening

L to R: Marc-Andre Fontaine and Armel Desreus.

Thursday June 5, 2014 | by Lindsay von Hagn

OPENING: Espace VERRE Graduate Exhibition

FILED UNDER: Announcements, Exhibition, Opening

Armel Desrues and Marc-Andre Fontaine, this year's graduates of the three-year Diploma of College Studies in Fine Crafts – Glass Option, offered through Espace VERRE and Cegep du Vieux Montreal, will be showcasing their work in the exhibit titled “SiO2” at Espace VERRE, on view today through September 5, 2014. Established in 1983, the non-profit organization Espace VERRE offers education programs in glassmaking for artists and the public in addition to their collegiate program, promotes glass art through exhibitions, sales, and special events, and offers studio rentals.

A rendering of Hiroshi Sugimoto's glass tea house that will open on the island of San Giorgio Maggiore in Venice.

Tuesday June 3, 2014 | by Elena Tafone

OPENING: A Japanese tea house made of glass will open in Venice on June 6, 2014

FILED UNDER: Architecture, Exhibition, Opening

Noted Japanese photographer Hiroshi Sugimoto will be making his first foray into the third dimension with his installation "The Glass Tea House Mondrian," which will open to the public on June 6, 2014. As part of the activities of Le Stanze del Vetro, the temporary pavillion will grace the Island of San Giorgio Maggiore in Venice, Italy. The pavilion consists of two main elements. The first is an open-air landscape, which will feature a reflecting pool and a path, which leads visitors to the second: an enclosed glass cube. Roughly eight by eight feet, this space will play host to regularly performed Japanese tea ceremonies. With roots winding as far back as the sixteenth century, this ritualized custom has transformed from simple hospitality, to an art form all its own.

CUD's shoe mosaic in the making

Thursday May 29, 2014 | by Paulina Switniewska

On heels of Norway residency, John Drury opens Brooklyn exhibition

FILED UNDER: Announcements, Curiosities, Exhibition, Opening

Elgin Gallery, a gallery focusing on local talent and international Outsider Art in the Bedford-Stuyvesant neighborhood of Brooklyn, will be showcasing the work of John Drury in a solo show entitled "My World is Not Your World." Opening June 13th and running through July 11th, 2014, the exhibiton will be a departure from Drury's typical collaborations with Robbie Miller in the project known as CUD. In May, CUD completed a residency and exhibition in Bergen, Norway, that culminated in a public art installation. Drury is also a frequent contributor to GLASS: The UrbanGlass Art Quarterly.

Face Lift, 2013

Tuesday May 27, 2014 | by Lindsay von Hagn

OPENING: Judy Chicago at David Richard Gallery

FILED UNDER: Exhibition, New Work, Opening

Judy Chicago, known most famously for her feminist artworks like The Dinner Party (1979) and Birth Project (1980 - 85), will be showing recent works in glass, bronze, and ceramics at the David Richard Gallery in Santa Fe, New Mexico. On view from June 14 through July 26, 2014, the exhibition entitled "Heads Up," will be up during the artist's 75th birthday on July 20th.

Daniel Clayman, Dispersion (computer rendering), 2014. Glass and steel cable. H 16, L 32, D 15 ft. rendering: mala merav holtzman

Thursday May 15, 2014 | by Samuel Paul

OPENING: Dan Clayman’s latest large-scale installation debuts at Brown University

FILED UNDER: Announcements, Exhibition, New Work, Opening

When light passes through a transparent tangible material, it is assigned a mathematical number, called an Abbe Value. This number expresses how much light is distributed as it bends, changes color or pattern and re-characterizes the space around the material. Daniel Clayman, who is best known for creating large-scale works in a variety of materials but especially in glass, knows a great deal about the qualities of light, and has frequently worked with glass in pursuit of works that trap the light within the glass. His newest project, to be unveiled Friday, May 16, 2014 at the Cohen Gallery in Brown University's Granoff Center in Providence, Rhode Island, is entitled Dispersion, and will interact with exterior and interior lighting, natural and manmade, in a unique work of cast and assembled amber glass panels.

Thomas and George Woodall, The Intruders, ca. 1893, and The Attack, 1896 Blown, cased, acid-etched, and cameo-carved glass.

Saturday May 10, 2014 | by Andrew Page

The Chrysler Museum of Art showcases new glass acquisitions as doors reopen to the public today

FILED UNDER: Museums, News, Opening

After an 18-month major expansion and renovation of its main building, the Chrysler Museum of Art in Norfolk, Virginia opens to the public today with a 30-percent increase in the number of items in its glass collection on display, as well as greater connections to the activities of its glass studio. Proceeds from museum’s $45 million capital campaign—which included funding for the glass studio that opened in November 2011—financed this $24-million-project. An additional 10,000 square feet of exhibition space allows greater flexibiltiy for exhibiiton design as well as new paths for visitors to navigate the museum. Two new wings now flank the historic front entrance.

courtesy: the artist

Saturday May 10, 2014 | by Andrew Page

OPENING: Mary Shaffer exhibition opens in Taos, New Mexico

FILED UNDER: Events, Exhibition, Opening

A solo exhibition of pioneering Studio Glass artist Mary Shaffer opens today at the E.L. Blumenschein Museum, a historic landmark in Taos, New Mexico. Up through June 22, 2014, the exhibtion entitled "A Different View" features the artist's signature "mid-air slumping" technique. Antique farm tools such as buggy wrenches and sheep sheers are adorned by a flourish of drippinghot glass, strategically cooled to preserve the fluidity and grace of the material subject to gravity.

This will be the second iteration of the Collective Design fair in New York City.

Tuesday May 6, 2014 | by Samuel Paul

DESIGN: Glass figures prominently in design fairs opening in New York City and London

FILED UNDER: Announcements, Art Market, Design, Events, Exhibition, News, Opening

Coming off a successful inaugural year, the second Collective Design Fair opens today and runs through May 11th, 2014, in Skylight at Moynihan, highlighting limited editions of design pieces and one-of-a-kind artworks in various media. Glass figures in many of the exhibitors displays, primarily in various approaches to lighting from the French Art Deco-style designs at Maison Gerard, to the sculptural glass lighting by Thaddeus Wolfe and Jeff Zimmerman at R and Company, to a mix of lighting and fine art glass works at Wexler Gallery, which blurs the boundaries between art and design.

Richard Jolley at work in the studio.

Tuesday May 6, 2014 | by managingeditor@glassquarterly.com

Richard Jolley unveiling at Knoxville Museum of Art a festive occasion

FILED UNDER: Exhibition, Museums, New Work, Opening

This past weekend, the Knoxville Museum of Art in Knoxville, Tenessee, marked the unveiling of Richard Jolley’s permanent installation, Cycle of Life: Within the Power of Dreams and Wonder of Infinity, with a series of events that included a luncheon, a symposium, a street party, a gala evening and a family fun day. Commissioned in 2009, the monumental steel and glass sculpture, billed as one of the world's largest, makes a dramatic statement as you enter this regional museum dedicated to the work of East Tennessee artists. The unveiling of the massive installation on the wall and ceiling of the museum’s main hall coincided with the KMA’s 25th anniversary, and also included a related glass exhibit placing Jolley’s installation within the context of contemporary glass art.

The studio demo at UrbanGlass on Saturday, May 3, has sold out but there is a waiting list.

Thursday May 1, 2014 | by Samuel Paul

OPENING: Lino Tagliapietra in New York for gallery opening, demo, and birthday party

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

Lino Tagliapietra, a world-renown maestro with 69 years of experience working with glass, will be the subject of a solo exhibition at Heller Gallery that opens this evening, mixing his blown work with some of his large-scale glass panels. When Lino first began visiting the U.S. from Murano, Italy, in the late 1970s, he brought with him traditional Venetian techniques and, just as importantly, a desire to share them. He was inspired to connect with the spirit of discovery and experimentation he saw in the U.S. Studio Glass movement in the late 1970s and early 1980s. As he told GLASS Quarterly magazine in an exclusive interview (GLASS #104, Fall 2006), America represented a liberation, and he says he became "a better artist" as a result.

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