Glass #123, Summer 2011
The new issue of GLASS: The UrbanGlass Art Quarterly hit newsstands and subscriber mailboxes on June 1st, bundled with the Corning Museum of Glass’s annual publication New Glass Review. On the cover of GLASS, a detail from Dafna Kaffeman’s Mantis Religiosa 02 (2010), an installation in flameworked glass and embroidered handkerchief. Kaffeman’s politically charged work takes on the preconceptions and intractable views of the long-standing conflict in the Middle East between Israelis and Palestinians. Mixing fragments of text drawn from newspaper reports with highly symbolic insects, flowers, and mourning handkerchiefs, she creates multiple layers of meaning in work that gets past the surfaces and toward essential truths about shared human experience in sophisticated artwork that was recently exhibited at the Katzen Arts Center at American University in Washington D.C.
Also in this issue:
- GLASS Seattle correspondent Victoria Josslin explores the “Glimmering Gone” exhibition at the Museum of Glass in Tacoma, Washington, a collaborative installation by American Beth Lipman and Swede Ingalena Klenell. The icy fragments of contemporary life they arrange at epic scale offer a meditation of our brief existence through frozen artifacts of everyday objects.
- GLASS contributing editor William Ganis takes on the career and artwork of Michael Glancy, whose elaborately worked glass surfaces reveal layers of possible meanings. The work is featured in a major retrospective exhibition currently on view at Barry Friedman, Ltd., in New York City.
- Reviews include Anne Wilson’s work at Rhonda Hoffman Gallery in Chicago, Charlie Parriott at Traver Gallery in Seattle, and Ione Thorkelsson at Lafreniere and Pai Gallery, in Ottawa, Ontario.
- In our regular Reflection essay, GLASS managing editor Kim Harty takes on the mirrored surface as metaphor for work in glass.
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