Josiah McElheny at Andrea Rosen Gallery in NY

The same week that scientists at the CERN laboratory outside Geneva were getting ready to fire up the Large Hadron Collider, the artist Josiah McElheny was conducting a test of his own ideas on the Big Bang theory at Andrea Rosen Gallery in New York City. Inspired by the Lobmeyr chandeliers at the Metropolitan Opera House and informed by logarithmic equations devised by the cosmologist David H. Weinberg, McElheny’s chrome, glass and electric-light sculpture “The End of the Dark Ages” is part of a four-year investigation into the origins of the universe. What began with “The End to Modernity,” a sculpture commissioned by the Wexner Center for the Arts at Ohio State University, will culminate next month in a massive installation titled “Island Universe” at White Cube in London. “I had this quixotic idea to do modernized versions of the Lobmeyr chandeliers as sculpture with secret information behind it,” says McElheny, who upon first encountering these “gilded age/space age” objects immediately thought they looked like pop renditions of the Big Bang.

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John Miller- visiting artist at Tyler

John Miller came to Tyler as a visiting artist. He lectured and gave a demo. The lecture he gave was talked about his different bodies of work were he concentrates on blown glass with several diverse bodies of work. One series pays homage to Claes Oldenburg, whose larger-than-life pop sculptures of everyday objects inspired John to investigate the translation of everyday goblets and glassware to oversize proportion. His jumbo wine and martini glasses (some holding as much as 5 gallons) have been exhibited nationally in galleries and at the SOFA exhibition in Chicago.


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Erica Rosenfeld- Featured Artist

Erica's work is worth checking out. It is so fabulous!!!! Here are some examples of her wonderful jewelry and her tapestries all made out of bullseye glass, hot worked, coldworked, and sewn together.

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Allan McCollum, Fulgurite Project 1998, using lightning to create glass

Installation: University of South Florida Contemporary Art Museum, Tampa, Florida, 1998. Over 10,000 casts of an
actual fulgurite produced by lightning triggered by the artist at the International Center for Lightning Research at
Camp Blanding, Florida.

"It's hard to imagine how memory and meaning could exist without language — both are always only available through some sort of representation. I imagine that objects having meaning — artworks, keepsakes, people, stones — could not exist for us without their "literature." How could a bolt of lightning, lasting only for the tiniest fraction of a second, be understood otherwise? Events this brief will always evade our synapses — and their existence will always only exist after the fact, amongst one's representations. Perhaps a true picture of how an artwork has meaning could be constructed if the literature supporting the artwork was put on display at the same time, along with it. The Petrified Lightning project was created to explore this idea — an exhibition to enact the "event" as always already absent, with the residue and the meaning always already appearing in its place."
-- Allan McCollum

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Dafna Kaffeman- Featured Artist

Over the past six years, Dafna Kaffeman has been living and working in the Netherlands. In 1997 Kaffeman left her birthplace of Jerusalem to study under the guides of Mieke Groot and Richard Mietner, in the glass department at the Gerrit Rietveld Academy, Amsterdam. She then went on to receive her MFA from the Sandberg Institute also in Amsterdam. She was nominated for the Bernadin de Neeve prize given every 4 years to a young glass artist in the Netherlands and has received grants and scholarships during her art education. Kaffeman has exhibited extensively in the Netherlands, as well as Jerusalem, Germany, the United States and Portugal. You can view her work in an article published in the Summer 2002 New Glass Review 23.

Susan Glasgow Taylor- Pittsburgh Glass Center Resident Artist Project- "Absence Of Body"

Susan Glasgow Taylor is currently completing a 2 month residency at Pittsburgh glass Center. Her project is for a solo show called "Absence of Body" opening October 3, 2008- January 3, 2009. The installation she is planning is called "The Communal Nest" made up of several hundred glass twigs that have been created from artists from all over the world. Each artist is also invited to send a quote to be transferred onto vellum strips and woven into the nest. The center of the nest will be lined with glass feathers and a large, sewn glass pillow with a indentation in the top as though someone has just recently left. Surrounding the nest will be 5-6 additional sewn glass pieces supporting the concept of "Absence Of Body"

*The exhibition will benefit both the PGC and local women's shelter, Bethlehem Haven, and will coincide with the International Women's FOrum also being held in Pittsburgh that month.

Some of Susan's other work below

"RASPBERRY SWIRL" #145, 2007
Susan Glasgow Taylor
glass/mixed media
4 X 7 1/2 X 7 1/2 inches
350-0121

SIZE 8 SEWN GLASS CORSET
2004
glass
12 X 12 X 10 inches
350-0095

Deborah Czersko- HO HO BLOW 2007- Wheaton Arts

Deborah Czeresko has been a glassblower/artist for 19 years, starting in 1987, most of those years living and working in New York City. She began working with glass following completion of her Bachelor of Arts in psychology at Rutgers University in New Jersey. She started by focusing on Venetian techniques, studying with several masters of the material, including William Gudenrath, Lino Tagliapietra, Pino Signoretto, Dino Rosin, and Elio Quarissa. Now, her artistic philosophy combines two basic points: everything has an essential, inescapable nature; and, balance equals harmony. Using this inspiration, she makes work that is directly influenced by the material. Deborah has exhibited extensively in New York and Louisiana. Her work is included in the permanent collections of the Glasmuseum Ebeltoft, in Ebeltoft, Denmark and the Frauenau Glasmuseum, in Frauenau, West Germany. She has received several full scholarships from Pilchuck Glass School and from Tulane University, where she received her Master of Fine Arts. Deborah has received a fellowship from Metropolitan Contemporary Glass, and residencies from Appalachian Center for Craft and Bild-werk Frauenau. In addition, she has been teaching and lecturing for 16 years and her work has been featured in several well-known magazines, including Interior Design, Dwell Magazine, House and Garden, and Glass Magazine.

Jessica Townsend- Glass House

Kiln cast glass dollhouse

Jessica Townsend web-site

Liza Lou- featured artist- breaking boundaries- she beads the world!!!

Liza Lou beads the world. She states "I began as a painter and I walked into a bead store and it was just like a flash in my mind. I just thought, 'My God, that's the most amazing paint I've ever seen."

In school she was ostracized for her choice of materials, she explains that most thought she was making jewelry. "I had become a sort of craft person, and that's not a good thing apparently," says Lou. "If you're doing something with beads then your're a craft person. If you're making paintings, you're an artist. You're a fine artist and there were very distinct categories."

Her response was to leave school and pursue her passion- what would you do???

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