The cover of the Summer 2013 edition of GLASS (#131), which comes bundled with a special bonus copy of Corning’s New Glass Review (#34).
When subscribers to the print edition of GLASS: The UrbanGlass Art Quarterly check their mailboxes for the summer edition, they will be pleasantly surprised to find their magazine polybagged with a free copy of the latest New Glass Review, the annual exhibition in print by The Corning Museum of Glass. With an image of Danish artist Steffan Damm’s 2012 Rakow Commission work, Flower Block, on the cover, New Glass Review 34 will showcase the 100 most important new works in glass as chosen by a jury that includes Tina Oldknow, Corning’s curator of modern glass.
The upcoming Summer issue of GLASS features an in-depth consideration of the ground-breaking work of Polish artist Anna Skibska, whose large-scale three-dimensional flameworked sculpures redefined the scale possible with glass. Skibska builds complex networks to create monumental organic forms, their ethereal shapes outlined in lattices of clear glass. In the years since her work was first showcased in New Glass Review in 1987, her technique has inspired a number of other artists, often with scant acknowledgement of the debt owed. She is not obscure; Skibska’s many public art commissions and gallery exhibitions are proof of that, but with this article, the techniques Skibska pioneered, as well as her artwork, will be more clear to art collectors and artists working in glass.
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