The Fall 2013 edition of GLASS: The UrbanGlass Art Quarterly(#132) has hit newsstands and subscriber mailboxes over then past few days. On the cover is Dan Clayman’s work Tonal Shift(2010). Assessing the artist’s work, critic Robin Rice writes: “Daniel Clayman’s sculpture is quintessentially of this young century, but it grows out of the intersection of three 20th-century phenomena: the Studio Glass movement, minimalism, and technology.” Quite possibly the most refined glass sculptors working in the material, Clayman’s work is a quest to engage the essence of light itself.
In honor of the October 2nd reopening of UrbanGlass on October 2nd, GLASSpresents “The Spirit of Experimentation,” an oral history that tracks the evolution of the nonprofit art center from the New York Experimental Glass Workshop to its jump across the river.
Richard Jolley’s monumental installation isn’t set to open until next spring, but Harold Duckett, a local art critic, met with the artist in the studio as he wrestles tons of glass and steel into the largest work of his career – an installation at the Knoxville Museum of Art.
The final feature is a look at the irreverent collaborative project of John Drury and Robbie Miller known as CUD, which celebrates its 25th anniversary this year. Enemies to all that is decorative in glass, their work provokes and challenges the community of glass artists they are both very much a part of with work that has always been ahead of its time.
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