by Anne Gant
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…
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.
Here are some quick studio shots of just-completed work, I hope you will check back to see them once they are cozily settled in a gallery, because they always look nicer when they are photographed correctly- these photos were taken on the day they came out of the glassblowing studio. This blog is a chance to see behind the scenes and to see the newest thing when it is “fresh”, so here they are!:
“The Visitor Epergne”
“The Winged Epergne”
both 30 in high by 22.25 inches wide
“Residual Sparkle”
and a detail shot…
30 in high x 44.5 inches wide
“Epergne for the Wanderer”
26.25 inches high x 19 inches wide
These new small pieces are destined for New York.
