by Anne Gant
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.
Recent Acquisitions by Corning Museum and the Library are discussed in The Gather- The Corning Museum of Glass Member Magazine for Spring/Summer 2011
3 of the recent pyrographies were acquired, and the head librarian discusses them in this brief article:
Some photos from Vrij Glas in Zaandam, where I am making new work for Exhibit A and the August show in Alaska….
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”.
Summer Glass Invitational
Showing at Exhibit A in Corning- May through July, with a special opening evening during GlassFest weekend
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 26th, 5:00pm to 8:00pm
In January I went to the Studio of the Corning Museum of Glass as a teaching assistant for Anna Boothe’s class on casting and moldmaking with murrini. I’m in the green apron…
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…
