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Tuesday May 12, 2009 | by Andrew Page

Hot off the presses

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The new issue of GLASS: The UrbanGlass Art Quarterly will be on newsstands on June 1. Inside, feature articles on the established and the up-and-coming.

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Learn about a new chromatic approach of a Czech master of ground glass in an in-depth analysis of František Vizner’s remarkable career by contributing editor William Ganis.

Submerge yourself in the undersea of world of Maria Grazia Rosin whose blown glass forms reflect the Venetian light and aquatic sensitivity. Vicky A. Clark will lead you on a tour of this immersive installation on view at the Carnegie Museum of Art in Pittsburgh, complete with sound design and videography.

After years out of the public eye, Lucio Bubacco roared back to the 2008 Chicago SOFA with a spectacular one-man exhibition that set a new standard for presentation at the glass world’s biggest art fair. Editor-in-chief Andrew Page takes the measure of Bubacco’s elaborate installation and the conditions that made it possible.

Fiber and glass are rarely combined, but Montreal-based Vanessa Yanow is weaving together the two mediums in her provocative exploration of women’s work and the value of the handmade. Our man in Montreal, Christian Lewis, interviewed this up-and-coming artist and interprets her ambitious engagement of anonymous artisans of another era in highly contemporary works.

Glass: The UrbanGlass Quarterly, a glossy art magazine published four times a year by UrbanGlass has provided a critical context to the most important artwork being done in the medium of glass for more than 40 years.