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Artem Vitro Twelve Glass Artists
AUGUST 26 - OCTOBER 2.2016
LewAllenGalleries 1613 Paseo de Peralta | Santa Fe, New Mexico 87501 | tel 505.988.3250 www.lewallengalleries.com | info@lewallengalleries.com
Artem Vitro Comprised of work by twelve of the world’s leading glass artists, Artem Vitro initiates elemental dialogues between voices that explore the conceptual, political and expressive possibilities of glass sculpture, just as glass itself encapsulates, radiates and transforms light. In a remarkably diverse range of process and style, this work spans the abstract, the figurative and the architectural; the sensual, the metaphysical and even the unsettling. As all of these artists can attest, the simple fact of working with glass in sculpture is a precarious balance between control and compromise, within the intricate, nuanced techniques needed to produce their art. These sculptors are not only masters of their technical craft but also work as students of history, marrying cutting-edge technique with the aesthetics and processes within ancient traditions of sculptural art-making. On top of their international and critical acclaim, these artists have work in countless significant public and private collections on six continents including the Smithsonian (National Museum of American Art), La Granja in Spain, the Corning Museum of Glass, the Philadelphia Museum of Art, the Museum of International Contemporary Glass in Denmark, the National Gallery of Australia, the United States White House Fine Art Collection, the Shanghai Museum of Contemporary Glass, the Kunstgewerbe Museum in Berlin, and many, many more. This show coincides with Glass for the New Millennium: Masterworks from the KaplanOstergaard Collection, a museum exhibition at the Crocker Art Museum in Sacramento, California which features sculpture by many renowned artists whose work will also be highlighted in Artem Vitro. Christina Bothwell’s evocative and surreal figurative sculpture alludes to different symbols of life, death and metamorphosis in combinations of rough-hewn cast glass, ceramics, oil paints, and found objects. Latchezar Boyadjiev’s glass forms are noted for their elegant pursuit of the perfect flow of form in undulating, fluid planes of color, echoing the curvature of the human body. 2
Peter Bremers uses dreamlike, ethereal shapes to recall a sense of personal exploration in softly hued, kiln-cast prisms. Matthew Curtis’ dynamic glass sculpture draws upon an ongoing interest in fragments of architectural space as described by blown glass, colored oxide, and steel. John Kiley examines and dilutes the boundaries between exterior, interior, and liminal spaces in blown, carved and polished glass. Lucy Lyon’s narrative-based glass finds inspiration in the personal gravity of small moments as conveyed by subtletly and gesture. Steve Klein creates revelatory work which operates within a dynamic balance between texture, hue, and positive and negative space in kiln-formed glass. Charles Miner’s vessels, adorned with highly detailed natural forms and created using the classical lost-wax method, exemplify the textural possibilities of glass sculpture. Danny Perkins, whose towering forms are created using glass which has been blown, cut and sandblasted, have earned him acclaim as a leading glass artist for decades. Veruska Vagen, originally trained as a painter, is interested in the outer boundaries of glass as a conceptual medium, working in her innovative technique of dot de verre – recalling both pointillism and the ancient tradition of mosaics. Carmen Vetter, interested in natural relationships of entropy and regeneration, plays with patterning, mathematics and symmetry in the terrain of her kiln-formed wall pieces. Hiroshi Yamano works using evocative symbols of conflict between tradition and change, isolation and openness, in a unique method adapted from a synthesis of Japan’s history of metal crafting, blown and cut glass, and the application of delicate layers of silver leaf. 3
Doll, Christina Bothwell, 2015, cast glass, pit-fired raku clay, found objects, oil paint, 9 x 8 x 11 in 4
Wherever I Look, I See You, Christina Bothwell, 2013, cast glass, ceramic, found objects, oil paints, 24 x 14 x 11 in 5
Little Dream, Christina Bothwell, 2016, cast glass, ceramic and oil paints, 6 x 8 x 3 in 6
Tattooed Baby, Christina Bothwell 2016, cast glass, ceramic and oil paints, 4 x 20 x 8 in 7
Enjoyment, Latchezar Boyadjiev, 2007, cast glass, 36 x 25 x 5 in 8
Flight, Latchezar Boyadjiev, 2007, cast glass, 35 x 23 x 5 in 9
Torso IX, Latchezar Boyadjiev, 2014, cast glass, 18 x 12 x 3 1/2 in 10
Torso V, Latchezar Boyadjiev, 2014, cast glass, 18 x 12 x 4 in 11
Torso XII, Latchezar Boyadjiev, 2015, cast glass, 22 x 15 x 4 in 12
Embrace, Latchezar Boyadjiev, 2015, cast glass, 21 x 14 x 4 in 13
Waves III, Peter Bremers, 2016, kiln cast glass, 12 x 24 x 3 1/2 in 14
Inward Movement II, Peter Bremers, 2016, kiln-cast glass, 25 1/2 x 20 x 5 1/2 in 15
Traveling XI, Peter Bremers 2014, kiln-cast glass, 22 1/2 x 14 x 3 in 16
Traveling III, Peter Bremers, 2012, kiln-cast glass, 28 x 17 x 6 in 17
Neodymium Aqua and Uranium Section, Matthew Curtis, blown, tinted and fused glass with stainless frame, 6 3/4 x 14 x 8 1/4 in 18
Compound Red Hexagon (1508 and 1509), Matthew Curtis, blown glass, cast aluminum, and stainless steel, 17 x 18 1/2 x 8 in (each) 19
Amber Increment, Matthew Curtis, blown glass, cast aluminum, and stainless steel, 33 3/4 x 19 1/2 x 19 1/2 in 20
Intersected Crescent, John Kiley, blown, carved and polished glass, 15 1/4 x 12 1/2 x 11 in 21
Solstice Halo, John Kiley, blown, carved and polished glass, 8 x 13 3/4 x 13 in 22
Vertical Violet Peak, John Kiley, 2013, blown, carved and polished glass, 15 x 10 x 9 in 23
Shelter, Steve Klein 2016, kiln-formed glass, 11 x 16 x 16 in 24
Malevich/Albers I, Steve Klein, 2016, kiln-formed glass, 12 x 12 x 2 in 25
Exploration 194, Steve Klein, 2016, kiln-formed glass, 6 1/2 x 18 x 18 in
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Doppleganger V, Lucy Lyon, 2015, cast glass and bronze, 19 x 17 3/4 x 15 1/2 in
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Precarious, Lucy Lyon, 2014, cast glass, 24 x 11 3/8 x 3 3/8 in 28
The Reader, Lucy Lyon, 2014, cast glass, 13 1/2 x 34 3/4 x 14 1/2 in 29
The Edge of Waking, Lucy Lyon, 2016, cast glass, cast bronze and fabricated steel, 11 x 38 x 19 in 30
Therapy, Lucy Lyon, 2016, cast glass and fabricated steel, 14 1/2 x 30 x 14 in 31
Tesuque Grand Slam, Charles Miner, 2016, cast glass, 14 1/4 x 21 1/2 x 21 1/2 in 32
Pescador, Charles Miner cast glass, 11 x 29 x 6 in 33
Grand Slam, Charlie Miner, 2016, cast glass, 14 x 18 1/4 x 18 1/4 in 34
Blue, Danny Perkins blown, cut, sandblasted and painted glass, 72 x 15 x 15 in 35
Simple, Danny Perkins, blown, cut, sandblasted and painted glass, 48 x 14 x 14 in 36
Red Bleeds, Danny Perkins, blown, cut, sandblasted and painted glass, 65 x 14 x 14 in 37
Ephemera: Grace, Veruska Vagen, 2016, dot de verre, 17 1/2 x 11 1/2 x 1 1/4 in 38
Ephemera: Lauren, Veruska Vagen, 2016, dot de verre, 16 1/2 x 11 1/2 x 1 1/4 in 39
Nightscape: Seattle, Veruska Vagen, 2016, dot de verre, 18 x 12 1/2 x 1 1/4 in 40
Nightscape: San Francisco, Veruska Vagen, 2016, dot de verre, 14 3/4 x 12 3/4 x 1 1/4 in 41
Starry Night, 1889, After Van Gogh, Veruska Vagen, 2012, dot de verre, 17 1/4 x 17 1/4 x 1 1/4 in 42
Echo, Carmen Vetter, 2014, kiln-formed glass, 42 x 42 in 43
Portal II, Carmen Vetter, 2014, Kiln-formed glass, 21 x 21 in 44
Fade VI, 2014, kiln-formed glass, 21 x 21 in 45
Abate, Carmen Vetter, 2014, kiln-formed glas, 42 x 42 in 46
Fade VII, 2014, kiln-formed glass, 21 x 21 in 47
Glow, Carmen Vetter, 2014, kiln-formed glass, 42 x 42 in 48
From East to West: Drawing on the Vessel #5, Hiroshi Yamano, 2016, blown and sculpted glass, engraving, paint and copper plating, 28 x 26 3/4 x 13 3/4 in 49
From East to West: New Scene of Japan FNS #16, Hiroshi Yamano, 2016, engraved images, silver paste and patina, sumi ink and paint, with silver foil fused on glass, 12 5/8 x 12 5/8 in 50
From East to West: New Scene of Japan FNS #9, Hiroshi Yamano, 2016, engraved images, silver paste and patina, sumi ink and paint, with silver foil fused on glass, 25 1/8 x 37 3/4 in 51
1613 Paseo de Peralta | Santa Fe, New Mexico 87501 | tel 505.988.3250 www.lewallengalleries.com | info@lewallengalleries.com Š 2016 LewAllen Contemporary LLC Artwork Š Christina Bothwell, Peter Bremers, Latchezar Boyadjiev, Matthew Curtis, John Kiley, Steve Klein, Lucy Lyon, Charles Miner, Danny Perkins, Veruska Vagen, Carmen Vetter, and Hiroshi Yamono