FIRST PRIZE: Morgan Chivers (Univ. Texas at Arlington), Particulate Pulse (Inertness is a Relative Matter), 2013. H 5, W 13, D 5 in. Glass, xenon, neon, electricity.
UPDATED 6/27/2013 9:00 am
With the cancellation of the 2013 Glass Art Society conference, the organization’s annual International Student Exhibition has gone virtual. Rather than arranging student work from around the world in a large conference room where it would be juried in real-lfe, as would have been done in a typical GAS conference year, the submitted artwork has been placed online, where it was juried by a panel of three: Ann Mulrooney, manager and curator of the National Craft Gallery in Ireland; Marc Petrovic, artist; and Ken Saunders, a Chicago art dealer. First prize was awarded to University of Texas at Arlington graduate student Morgan Chivers for his submission entitled Particulate Pulse (Inertness is a Relative Matter) (2013), which mixes neon, xenon, and electricity to create a delicate paper-thin work that glows.
The 2013 International Student Online Exhibition Judges (L to R): Ann Mulrooney, Marc Petrovic, and Ken Saunders.
One frequent complaint about the GAS student exhibition is the lack of juror essays explaining the rationale for selecting the winners, but click on a link in the online exhibition page, and you can find brief juror essays on page 30 of the beautifully laid-out virtual exhibition catalog featuring a selection of works. Back at the exhibition page on the GAS Website, you can see detailed large images of all 82 submissions by 50 undergraduate and 32 graduate students, as well as statements by each.
Second prize went to Tom Zogas for his algae-incubator in glass vessels that reference historic designs, an interesting engagement of the past and future in a single work.
SECOND PRIZE: Tom Zogas (Rochester Institute of Technology),
Personal Microalgae Production Units, 2012. H 14, W 6, D 5 in. (largest). Blown glass, water, microalgae, flourescent light.
Third prize went to a video work by Madeline Steimle (Southern Illinois University – Carbondale) for her 2013 work You’re All I Want for Christmas, billed as a “Vitreo-Tone Recording” employing cast glass and a video camera. The recording on a glass disk, played back on a standard turntable, degrades with each playing, a commentary on the ephemeral nature of technological change.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=f8BIlE0aSbo
For more information on the GAS International Student Online Exhibition, visit the event page on the GAS Website.
Editor’s note: In the original posting, there was criticism of a lack of juror essays, which, in fact, are available on page 30 of the virtual catalog, itself, which opens when you click on the image of the catalog cover. Thanks to Jay MacDonell for alerting us to our error and this wonderful addition to the student exhibition.