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:
JOHN E. BANNON SARAH BLOOD MATTHEW CUMMINGS SETH FAIRWEATHER JACOB FISHMAN HEATHER HANCOCK HELEN LEE CARMEN LOZAR HARRY MINTZ CATHARINE NEWELL DAVID SCHWARZ THOMAS SCOON TIM SHAW KANAKO TOGAWA BERTIL VALLIEN March 13 - April 24, 2021
How much portent and mystery is invested in certain kinds of locales, certain points of interest, certain locations and certain periods of time? And in the case of the ordinary what powers of persuasion are necessary to imbue a place with texture, context and meaning? Why is the memory of place often so much stronger than our recollection of character and plot? What makes a Setting a Place? Ken Saunders, March 2021
IN A DREAM (detail), by Kanako Togawa kiln cast glass, paint, ink, steel 42 x 12 inches 2019
JOHN E. BANNON SARAH BLOOD MATTHEW CUMMINGS SETH FAIRWEATHER JACOB FISHMAN HEATHER HANCOCK HELEN LEE CARMEN LOZAR HARRY MINTZ CATHARINE NEWELL DAVID SCHWARZ THOMAS SCOON TIM SHAW KANAKO TOGAWA BERTIL VALLIEN
JOHN E. BANNON
Where we love is home - home that our feet may leave, but not our hearts. Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
TIME OF THE SIGNS, #4 glass, neon, Nonsbestos 40 x 42 x 5 inches 2020 8
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SARAH BLOOD
Light, predominantly neon, is enriched by a counterpoint, a non-luminous element that has conceptual, physical and visual weight. Light in isolation is nothing; it can only be fully experienced when one has seen the dark. Sarah Blood
LUNAR FOSSIL VIII flameworked glass, argon, cement, pigment 25 x 25 x 5 inches 2010 10
MATTHEW CUMMINGS
When one starts thinking of the full moon as a common sight that will come again to one’s eyes ad-infinitum, the value of life is diminished and life goes by uncherished. Roman Payne
MOON: ENCELADUS blown glass 14 x 14 x 15 inches 2013 12
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SETH FAIRWEATHER
I understood at a very early age that in nature, I felt everything I should feel in church but never did. Walking in the woods, I felt in touch with the universe and with the spirit of the universe. Alice Walker
NATURAL MECHANICS blown glass 45 x 8 x 8 inches 2010 14
JACOB FISHMAN
The woods are lovely, dark and deep, But I have promises to keep, And miles to go before I sleep Robert Frost
WHOSE WOODS? glass, steel, neon 36 x 72 x 5 inches 2020 16
HEATHER HANCOCK
In many ways, Chicago is like a snake that sheds its skin every thirty years or so and puts on a new coat to conform to a new reality. Dominic A. Pacyga, “Chicago: A Biography” (2009)
R3.2 CURVE glass 48 x 30 inches 2019 18
HELEN LEE
Everyone is trying to get to the bar The name of the bar, the bar is called Heaven The band in Heaven, they play my favorite song They play it once again, they play it all night long David Byrne/ Talking Heads
OMG neon 46 x 16 x 4 inches 2015 20
CARMEN LOZAR
I may not have gone where I intended to go, but I think I have ended up where I needed to be. Douglas Adams
SHELL flameworked glass, wood 12 x 7 x 5 inches 2014 22
HARRY MINTZ
The view of Jerusalem is the history of the world; it is more, it is the history of earth and of heaven. Benjamin Disraeli
JERUSALEM oil on board 70 x 50 inches
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CATHARINE NEWELL
I only went out for a walk and finally concluded to stay out till sundown, for going out, I found, was really going in. John Muir
AFTERNOON WALK glass with powder, enamel, chalk detail 17 x 17 inches 2020 26
DAVID SCHWARZ
Keep close to Nature’s heart... and break clear away, once in awhile, and climb a mountain or spend a week in the woods. Wash your spirit clean. John Muir
TREE IN COPPER RED blown, ground and painted glass 17 x 11 x 11 inches 2016 28
THOMAS SCOON
We live on a placid island of ignorance in the midst of black seas of infinity, and it was not meant that we should voyage far. H. P. Lovecraft
VOYAGER cast glass, granite 19 x 23.5 x 6 inches 2020 30
TIM SHAW
A queer country, so old that as you walk on and on, there’s a feeling comes over you that you are gone back to Genesis. Anonymous
MURMURATION blown and etched glass 13.5 x 13.5 x 3 inches 2018 32
KANAKO TOGAWA
It is an old dream: To travel on the back of a benevolent sea beast down to some secret underwater garden. Stephen Harrigan
IN A DREAM kiln cast glass, paint, ink, steel 42 x 12 inches 2019 34
BERTIL VALLIEN
The ache for home lives in all of us, the safe place where we can go as we are and not be questioned. Maya Angelou
ARARAT 2 cast glass 6 x 15 x 7 inches 2007 36
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