The Summer 2015 edition of GLASS: The UrbanGlass Art Quarterly (#139) is hitting newsstands and subscriber mailboxes. It comes bundled with the just-published 2015 edition of New Glass Review, a special subscriber bonus at no additonal charge (It is also available at select newsstands, but at a higher cover price). On the cover is a striking work by sculptor Rachel Owens, who employs glass for the same light-mediating qualities that draw so many sculptors. But she is especially focused on its metaphoric resonance. She began to notice broken green glass on the sidewalks of her Greenpoint, Brooklyn, neighborhood shortly after moving to New York after earning an MFA at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. Keeping its sharp edges intact and giving it shape using a resin casting process, she has made it a primary material in her work, tapping into its associations of consumption and violence—two forces she zeroes in on in her critique of the excesses of our culture of rampant consumerism and its dire implications for the natural world. An in-depth conversation with Owens explores the importance of her investment in making her own work, which brings together concept and material for a powerful, multi-layered effect.
Also in this issue, new magazine contributor Victoria Scholes examines the career and work of James Maskrey, a prominent glassblower in the U.K. who creates artifacts based on the provisions that might have been carried on the heroic expeditions that transfixed Britain in previous eras. Contributing editor William Ganis examines the cutting-edge sculpture of Norwood Viviano, who harnesses new technologies to map the history of American industry and cities. Regular contributor John Drury looks at a new generation of Japanese artists who are embracing opaque white glass in their varied works to better accentuate form and texture.
Reviews of gallery and museum shows in Seattle, New York, and Montreal, as well as a news section brimming with important deveopments in the field, round out this issue that comes bundled with the latest edition of New Glass Review, The Corning Museum of Glass's annual exhibition in print of the most important new works in glass.
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