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Rachel Owens, "Smile Always" exhibition at Zieher Smith & Horton in 2015.

Saturday August 8, 2015 | by Andrew Page

On Tuesday, artist Rachel Owens to lecture about her glass-and-resin work that critiques consumerism

FILED UNDER: Announcements, Artist Interviews, Events, News

On the evening of August 11th, internationally-exhibiting artist Rachel Owens will speak about her work and process during an evening lecture at UrbanGlass in Brooklyn (UrbanGlass publishes the GLASS Quarterly Hot Sheet). The artist, whose work graced the cover of the Summer 2015 edition of GLASS (#139), explores the corrosive effects of consumer culture driven to unsustainable levels of desire by retail mercandising and marketing. Ownes makes sculptures of molded broken glass and resin, which she employs for its seductive and repulsive push-puil.

Thursday August 6, 2015 | by Susanne Frantz

In Memoriam: Yoriko Mizuta (1956 – 2015)

FILED UNDER: In Memoriam, Museums, News

The glass world lost an exceptional scholar and advocate with the passing of Yoriko Mizuta who succumbed to cancer on August 3, 2015. She was 59 years old. As a long-time curator at the Hokkaido Museum of Modern Art in Sapporo, Mrs. Mizuta was a key organizer of the triennial series of exhibitions “World Glass Now” which ran from 1982 to 1994. Those international overviews helped garner early attention to the contemporary glass art of Japan. Instead of indefinitely continuing those broad surveys, in 1997 she partnered with the Kunstmuseum Dusseldorf and The Corning Museum of Glass to present 20 artists from nine countries in an exhibition entitled “The Glass Skin.” The premise was to focus on glass as a literal and metaphorical surface, barrier, and crossing point. In addition to exploring the skin theme the show’s three co-curators hoped to encourage more exhibitions united first and foremost by an idea rather than simply a common material.

Nicholas Africano, Untitled (bust with grapes), 2013, Cast glass. H 17 1/2, W 9, D 13 in. (Abmeyer + Wood Fine Art)

Sunday August 2, 2015 | by Victoria Josslin

Glass well-represented at the first Seattle Art Fair

FILED UNDER: Art Market, Events, Exhibition, News

Seattle is basking in its inaugural art fair this weekend, enjoying good press, good crowds, good weather, and an encouraging number of red dots. The glass art shown at the 2015 Seattle Art Fair, which opened on July 30 and ended today, represents a wide range of invention and ideas.

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.

Exterior of the Canadian Clay & Glass Gallery.

Tuesday July 21, 2015 | by Alexander Charnov

Canadian Clay & Glass Gallery Announces Guest Curator

FILED UNDER: Announcements, Museums, News

The Canadian Clay & Glass Gallery has announced that Patricia Deadman will serve as guest curator for the next year, while the gallery’s current curator Sheila McMath is on maternity leave. In her time as curator, Deadman will realize two exhibitions curated by McMath, and will also curate an exhibition of her own.

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.

Greg Fleischaker at Glassworks building in 2002.

Saturday July 11, 2015 | by Emily Ma-Luongo

OPENING: Exhibition presents a look back at pioneers of Louisville glass art scene

FILED UNDER: Announcements, Exhibition, News, Opening

Set to open on August 7, 2015 is "502," an exhibition that aims to bring attention to the forerunners of the glass scene in Louisville, Kentucky. Taking place at the gallery of Flame Run, one of the five glass galleries that operate in the region, the show promises to be an homage to the people who first worked in their backyards and garages to produce hot and blown glass works. The exhibition will celebrate artists that paved the way for glass art in the community before it could be practiced through public access.

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.

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.”

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