Fever Dreams
Published by Ken Saunders Gallery 2041 West Carroll Avenue, Suite C-320 Chicago, IL 60612 www.kensaundersgallery.com © 2021 Ken Saunders Gallery All Rights Reserved Exhibition Curated by Ken Saunders Catalogue Design by Amy Stieve Luksa
Published on the occasion of the exhibition
Featuring work by:
CASSANDRIA BLACKMORE JOSÉ CHARDIET HEATHER HANCOCK SIDNEY HUTTER JON KUHN CARMEN LOZAR DANTE MARIONI HARRY MINTZ JOEL PHILIP MYERS TOLAND SAND ANJALI SRINIVASAN BERTIL VALLIEN TOOTS ZYNSKY May 1 - May 29, 2021
Burning with the fever of spontaneous creation, the artist’s imagination is white hot and blazing more brightly than the gathered molten glass at the end of the pipe. The vision that came as in a waking dream will be brought to life by the inspired hand of the Maker. Dreams time and again become real and the memory of the dream becomes an artifact left for us by the dreamer. Ken Saunders, May 2021
Locura (detail), by josÉ chardiet blown, cast, painted and electro-plated glass 61 x 10 x 10 inches 2017 4
Fever Dreams CASSANDRIA BLACKMORE JOSÉ CHARDIET HEATHER HANCOCK SIDNEY HUTTER JON KUHN CARMEN LOZAR DANTE MARIONI HARRY MINTZ JOEL PHILIP MYERS TOLAND SAND ANJALI SRINIVASAN BERTIL VALLIEN TOOTS ZYNSKY
CASSANDRIA BLACKMORE Light thinks it travels faster than anything but it is wrong. No matter how fast light travels, it finds the darkness has always got there first, and is waiting for it. Terry Pratchett
BASILIKOS
reverse painted glass 30 x 30 x 2 inches 2020
JOSÉ CHARDIET I believe in everything until it’s disproved. So, I believe in fairies, the myths, dragons. It all exists, even if it’s in your mind. Who’s to say that dreams and nightmares aren’t as real as the here and now? John Lennon
Locura
blown, cast, painted and electro-plated glass 61 x 10 x 10 inches 2017
HEATHER HANCOCK Chicago is one of the rare places where architecture is more visible. Frank Gehry
encode 3.12 equal ENCODE 3.27 go encode 3.1 bloom mosaic glass 24 x 24 inches 2021
sidney hutter To plant a garden is to believe in tomorrow. Audrey Hepburn
PLPGV #58
laminated glass 16.5 x 9.5 x 9.5 inches 2008
JON KUHN Closed in a room, my imagination becomes the universe, and the rest of the world is missing out. Criss Jami
LIGHT IMAGINED
laminated glass 15 x 13.5 x 13.5 inches 2020
Carmen lozar People think dreams aren’t real just because they aren’t made of matter, of particles. Dreams are real. But they are made of viewpoints, of images, of memories and puns and lost hopes. Neil Gainman
OIL SPILL
flame-worked glass, found object 15 x 13 x 6 inches 2018
dante marioni I dream my painting and I paint my dream. Vincent Willem van Gogh
Purple maze blown glass 33 x 13 x 3 inches 2020
harry mintz Every dance is a kind of fever chart, graph of the heart. Martha Graham
Pour painting oil on canvas 25 x 21 inches
joel philip myers There is a crack in everything. That’s how the light gets in. Leonard Cohen
enticement #10 blown glass 21 x 6 x 6 inches 2001
toland sand All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream. Edgar Allan Poe
glyphos
laminated glass 9 x 9 x 9 inches 2017
ANJALI SRINIVASAN There are two ways of spreading light: to be the candle or the mirror that reflects it. Edith Wharton
Mirror Painting, Blue Diptych blown and laminated glass 72 x 36 x 3 inches 2021
BERTIL VALLIEN Blue glass is not a color. It is a material that denies the fact that glass is invisible. Bertil Vallien
head
cast glass 13 x 6 x 10 inches 2000
tootS zynsky It’s the kind of kiss that inspires stars to climb into the sky and light up the world. Tahereh Mafi
Apogeo Mizimah fused glass 16 x 15.5 x 4 inches 2006
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