The Winter 2011 – 12 edition of GLASS: The UrbanGlass Art Quarterly features the work of Philip Baldwin and Monica Guggisberg on the cover.
The new issue of GLASS: The UrbanGlass Art Quarterly hit newsstands and subscriber mailboxes earlier this month (Some subscriber copies of GLASS #125 are arriving a few days later than usual due to a postal service problem we are investigating). On the cover of the Winter 2011 -12 edition: A detail shot of an installation of Philip Baldwin and Monica Guggisberg’s 2009 work Amber Sedution, The Red Coquette, All Dotted Up (from the “Guardian” series), made from hand-blown, glass featuring under-and overlay, as well as wheel-incising. It is a stand-out work from a collaborative career that has seen the creative couple set off on several new directions in their more than three-decades of exploration celebrated in an exhibition at the Musee Ariana, a Swiss national museum of ceramics and glass.
The cover article was penned by artist and critic Scott Benefield who traveled to Geneva to see first-hand how the collaborating couple Baldwin and Guggisberg fuse diverse influences, styles, and visions—starting with their own. Baldwin is American, Guggisberg Swiss; their union was not just romantic but the joining of two distinct approaches to art.
Also in this issue, Victoria Josslin dissects brother and sister Alessandro and Laura de Santillana’s individual bodies of work, and points out an important contrast. John Drury takes on Michael Scheiner’s aesthetic journey, and we present an appreciation and analysis charting the rise and fall of Steuben Glass over more than a century as the top American glassmaker. All this plus reviews of the most significant exhibitions and important news items from the world of glass.
Reviews include Draga Susanj’s installation at Glyndor Gallery at Wave Hill in The Bronx, New York; a group exhibition entitled “Glass in All Senses” at the Brattleboro Museum & Art Center in Brattleboro, Vermont, which was curated by the Museum of Art & Design’s Jennifer Scanlan; the work of John Torreano at Jean Albano Gallery in Chicago; and an assessment of Norwood Vivano’s exhibition at Heller Gallery entitled “Cities: Departure and Deviation.”
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