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The Rakow Library in Corning, NY, which holds the Corning Museum of Glass collection for prints and paper works, has just acquired 3 of my drawings for their archive. Tina Oldknow, the Corning Museum of Glass Curator of modern glass, visited the Vrij Glas studio last week.
It has been a busy month, which is a surprise for the summer! - even more new pieces have been sold, and there are whispers of some shows for the fall around the US and here in the Netherlands…so I’m going to be hard at work on some new pieces.
Now showing 10 glass pyrographies at Exhibit A in Corning New York through July 10, 2010.
Also in the show are:
Mahine Rattonsey
http://www.rattonsey.com/, a lampworking sculptor from New York State (this is our third show together!)
Nancy Sutcliffe
http://www.nancysutcliffe.co.uk/, who is in Dubai, and does exquisite engravings (just look at her site)
Jacqueline Cooley
http://www.jaquelinecooley.com/ from the UK whose color-smart fused glass objects just got her a spot on the British Glass Biennale
Also on display are Candace Gawne’s glowing plasma sculptures.
http://www.luminousartworks.com/
I hope you will have a chance to look at their work as well- so many good artists are hard at work making real, original unique objects- it’s good to appreciate them, even if it’s only via a webpage!
Maria Eugenia Diaz de Vivar, in Buenos Aires Argentina, has a created a serious and well-researched blog about glass.
She added me to the growing and vast list on Objetos con Vidrio. I am grateful to have a Spanish article about my work. Have a look… There are tons of links to museums, galleries and artists. I hope you find it an interesting resource.
http://objetosconvidrio.blogspot.com/
Anne Gant es una de las pocas artistas del vidrio que realiza su trabajo sobre papel.
Anne Gant:”Por lo general encontramos al vidrio limpio, frío, estéril y brillante.Mi trabajo muestra el otro lado del vidrio. No esta frío, lo utilizo totalmente caliente y líquido, no es estable y tranquilo.”
Anne soplo vidrio en UrbanGlass en Brooklyn durante más de seis años.
Ella primero esculpe el vidrio caliente en formas y líneas. Entonces, mientras el vidrio sigue en movimiento, caliente, presiona las formas de vidrio en hojas húmedas de papel de alta calidad. Al instante, el vidrio comienza a arder y genera humo en el papel. El resultado de impresiones quemadas tienen un alto nivel de detalle que las quemaduras pasan a través de capas de papel y también crea áreas en relieve. Los colores van desde los negros de humo denso hasta sepias y amarillos acuosos.
“La impresiones por quemaduras son conmovedoras porque existen simultáneamente como objetos estéticos en sí mismos y sin embargo, también hablan acerca de un objeto que se perdió.” dice Anne .
These are part of a new group of single prints that I am making for a show in Corning in May 2010.
The curator will install them as a cluster of drawings on the wall.
Please click on a single print for a larger view. They are all about 9 inches by 11 inches.
“Abundance”
These are brand new drawings from the studio. Vrij Glas was open again last week after its normal wintertime closure.
It is still early spring here, and it was so cold in the studio that I could see my breath the entire time I was working.
It’s a good time of year to blow glass- it feels great to get close to the furnace.
When I made these two pieces, I was definitely looking forward to seeing plants growing again, and the productive summertime.
“Abundance” shows an elegant fruit dish overflowing with objects.
“Rewards of Patience” shows some new growth emerging from a pile of discarded vases.
“Rewards of Patience”
Detail of “Rewards of Patience”
