2300°: Fire and Wine

Thursday, January 19, 2012, 5:30 p.m. – 7:30 p.m.
Free admission. Refreshments available.

If you are in upstate New York, stop by Corning. I’ll be blowing glass and burning paper, and there will be wine and music and all the wonderful things to see at the Corning Museum of Glass.

Glassmaking by Anne Gant
Anne Gant, is one of the few glass artists to work on paper. Watch as she uses hot glass to make prints and drawings in a fascinating combination of glassblowing and printing or drawing with glass. First, she sculpts hot glass into shapes and lines. While the glass is still scorching hot from the glory hole, she presses the glass forms into wet sheets of high quality rag paper. Instantly, the glass begins to burn and smoke the paper. In this dramatic process, the glass becomes cracked, scarred and destroyed and all that remains is its mark on the paper.

Music by The The Weber Brothers
There are bands for which rock and roll is a lifestyle, and then there are bands for which it is life. The Weber Brothers, who have shared the stage with icons like Garth Hudson, Levon Helm, Leon Russell, Derek Trucks and Kris Kristofferson, fuses stomping country rock with the brothers’ own love of pop music in all its splendor.

Free Finger Lakes Wine Tastings
Sip away the cold with tastings from over 20 Finger Lakes wineries.

Luminous 42h x 48 w

Afterglow 42h x 48w

Reconstruction 45 h x 30w

Photos from recent solo show in Anchorage, Alaska, and a review in the local paper. I showed one large wall pieces (9 panels) and 7 smaller pieces.

The show was paired with a show by my mother, Alice Gant, who is a fiber artist. It was an honor to have solo shows simultaneously, and great fun to show in adjacent galleries. We saw a lot of old friends while we were in Alaska, and also caught up with the art scene there- including admiring the gorgeous new Anchorage Museum building.

Check out the review here:
Two Generations

We also got some nice pre-show press in the Anchorage Daily news, with color photos of our artwork, and even an article about a bike route to all the openings on First Friday, including a stop at our shows.

In the gallery

Small Excavation

Welcome Home

A Cautionary Tale of Great Abundance

Spirit Chandelier

Unpacking the artwork with mom- the portfolios were sent from Amsterdam, Brooklyn and my gallery in Corning. Lots of coordination to get everything together.

The biggest one had its own wall- Midden and Moraine

The Carr-Gottstein Gallery- you can see the artwork inside

Photos from the opening- many people watched the video by Jata Haan with Pinaki’s music.
Opening photos by Becky Voris.

Northern Lights

Exhibit A represented artists at the Echo Art Fair this last weekend in Buffalo, NY. About 3,000 people visited the event.
(Joshua Sperling’s work on left, Tricia Wright on right.) I FedEx-ed this work from Amsterdam a couple of weeks ago
- it’s always nice to finally see it hanging and to know that it got there safely.

3 of the recent pyrographies were acquired, and the head librarian discusses them in this brief article:

A  shot of the studio- a great place to work, it’s so big!

Outside the studio it’s all green and quiet, a lovely peaceful place close to Amsterdam

Once the artwork is done at the studio, it takes some work to get it ready- first it is cleaned and glued, then photographed, cataloged, packed and shipped. I am working on one half of the Chandelier pieces here, just cleaning up the ash and smoke.

A preview of new work: This is one of 6 new pieces which will be shipped off to exhibition. This one is called “Welcome Home”.

Anna Boothe, Jason Chakravarty, Anne Gant, Joanna Manousis, Dan Mirer, Kari Russel-Pool, Nadine Saylor, Robert Wood
May 26 – Jul 16, 2011

Opening Reception for the public: Friday May 26^th, 5:00pm to 8:00pm

Ann Welles, the directory of Exhibit A Gallery in Corning also hosted a “meet and greet” with her artists, which was then nicely promoted by the Corning Museum of Glass on their Facebook page, which said:

See new works recently arrived from Amsterdam by Anne Gant at Exhibit A on Market Street in Corning. Gant blows and works glass and presses it into paper while it’s still hot. This destroys the glass. It’s glass art with no glass in it….with beautiful results.

As always, it’s great to be in Corning- the outstanding museum and library, the studio which is always full of energy, the huge number of knowledgeable glass people everywhere! From David Whitehouse’s lectures and Bill Gudenrath’s tours of Museum after-hours to Dennis James talking about the glass armonica- to all the scientists and engineers busy on new super-strong glasses, it’s a wonderful environment for a glass artist.

And of course on the main street is Exhibit A- with 5 new pieces from me. If you are in town, check out Thali for Indian food, and the lovely study collection of Frederick Carder glass, which is next to the Studio and free to visit…

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.