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Some recent press activity: Daily Art Muse recently wrote a posting about my work, causing the biggest demand in a single day for the video on this site. To see what they said, click here and then have a look at the site, it is a great source of interesting handcrafted work. Daily Art Muse.
I just finished writing a short article about my preparatory process for drawings, which appears in Glass Network magazine in December- this is the UK Contemporary Glass Society’s magazine, published quarterly.
Anne Gant and Pinaki Ghatak were married in a “small, sensible Dutch wedding” on Oct 1, 2010 in Amsterdam.
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 .
