LISABETH STERLING: Natural Forces, March 20 - April 17, 2004

LISABETH STERLING

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Asterisk 2002 Blown and Engraved Glass 11.75” x 7.25” x 4.25” BELOW

LISABETH STERLING Natural Forces March 20 - April 17, 2004 SELECTED QUOTATIONS BY

James Yood

Excerpts from James Yood's 2001 essay for Lisabeth Sterling's exhibition, “Lucid Dreams.” James Yood teaches contemporary art theory and criticism at Northwestern University and writes regularly for GLASS and American Craft magazines.

A Special thanks to Luca Rattazzi for his collaboration on the works in this exhibition.

PHOTO CREDIT

Robin Sterling Brewer

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Bear With Me 2004 Blown and Engraved Glass 6.75” x 12.5” x 5”

Cyclone 2004 Blown and Engraved Glass 18” x 12” x 13”

“There can be no middle ground in this process, the surface is either removed or it is not, and this sets up interesting conjunctions of positive and negative space.”

I Love Mom 2002 Blown and Engraved Glass 17.5” x 10” x 6.75”

“The stuff of human relationships – man to woman, child to parent, young to old, human to animal, the individual to the group – seems to be close to Sterling’s heart.”

A Time of Drought 2003 Blown and Engraved Glass 14.5” x 6.75” x 6.75”

“Her works are actually engravings, not incised into some metal plate to be inked and transferred onto paper, but driven directly into the surface of her glass in form of volumetric sculptural engraving.”

Fowl 2002 Blown and Engraved Glass 15.75” x 6.25” x 6.25”

Raindrops are Falling 2003 Blown and Engraved Glass 14” x 7.75” x 7.75”

“The covering of vessels with some kind of figural embellishment has been a human practice for several thousand years.”

“Each vase has a particular mood, sometimes playful or irreverent, but often surprisingly moody and chastened, as if these staring heads are only temporarily mute.”

Heat From Below 2002 Blown and Engraved Glass 17.5” x 8.75” x 8.75”

“A dense layering of such heads in crowned and variegated composition, and often a kind of compelling seriousness of tone make her objects into suggestive messages of things of great import.”

Mother’s Milk 2003 Blown and Engraved Glass 13” x 8.5” x 4.5”

“Her employ of a vessel form a gesture to a heritage of functionally and a metaphoric allusion to womanhood – and a strange and highly individual carpeting of human form.”

Extroverted Introvert 2003 Blown and Engraved Glass 20” x 5.5” x 5.5”

“As we move around each piece we might lose sight of some and discover new ones, a wreathing of faces into a chain of being that is engrossing and speculative.”

LISABETH STERLING BORN: 1958 Chicago, Illinois

SELECTED AWARDS 1993 1992 1991

Bronze and Purchase Awards, The Kristallnacht Project, Philadelphia, PA Glass Art V Recognition Award, British Columbia Art Association, Vancouver, British Columbia Fellowship, Creative Glass Center of America, Wheaton Village, NJ

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS 2003 2000 1999 1996 1994

The Visible Man, Exhibition Catalogue, Glasmuseet Ebeltoft, Denmark Glass: The Urban Glass Quarterly, Summer 2000, Issue 79 New Glass Review, Number 20, Corning Museum of Glass, NY Artists Fellowships Promotional Materials, Creative Glass Center of America, Wheaton Village, Millville, NJ The Journal, Wheaton Cultural Alliance, Wheaton Village, Millville, NJ

SELECTED PERMANENT COLLECTIONS Glasmuseet Ebeltoft, Denmark Wheaton Museum of American Glass, Wheaton Village, Millville, NJ American Interfaith Institute, Philadelphia, PA

LEFT AND DETAIL

The Seed 2003 Blown and Engraved Glass 14.5” x 23” x 9”

“My work is in part an avenue to self exploration – an opportunity to get to know the workings of my subconscious – but it is also a collection of images from the stories of the collective unconscious.”

- Lisabeth Sterling

Arctic Flight 2004 Blown and Engraved Glass 32” x 25.75” x 11.5”

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