June 24 - October 3, 2004
Cutting Edge: Artists Experiment With Glass
Five artists who work with glass in nontraditional ways: Lillian Ball, Rebecca Cummins, Leighton Pierce, Thad Povey, and Michael Rudnick
Artists have traditionally manipulated glass through the familiar techniques of blowing, fusing, and cutting, creating beautiful vases, bottles, and bowls, stained glass windows, sculptural pieces, and other exquisite forms of glassware. The artists included in this exhibition are thinking of new ways to use and tinker with this extremely powerful visual material, including investigating the optical qualities of glass in unexpected ways. They are experimenting with projecting images inside glass vessels, playing with our expectations about how images appear through or reflected within glass, and recontextualizing common household glassware. The resulting works have a playful quality that often reveals aspects of the investigative processes behind the work
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