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https://static1.squarespace.com/static/51bdef25e4b0b873de10e6ef/5e6ff2c4f94824017e710d71/5e6ff2c57ebdb151ca285ccf/1593388037995/36_doc_invasive_species_ph_alicjakielan.jpg Invasive Species Image courtesy of Alicja Kielan https://static1.squarespace.com/static/51bdef25e4b0b873de10e6ef/t/5ea9ac7d6f5f9a2627517089/1588178123870/GI_BWA_poster_fb.jpg Invasive Species - Curated by Dominika Drozdowska, Marzena Krzemińska-Baluch, Joanna Stembalska SIC! BWA Wrocław Gallery invites you to the exhibition summing up the artistic residency of the American artist Ben Wright, who uses the grotesque and irony to raise important issues of the relationship between humans and the world. Although the Polish version of title of the latest exhibition at the SIC! Gallery, Invasive Species, takes plural form, perhaps it would be the more accurate to put it in singular. After all, the most expansive creature that poses the greatest threat to the environment is human being. Today, humans and their "breeding and accompanying stock" account for 96% of the mammal population. We domesticate and subordinate a significant part of life on Earth to our own needs, which are often not a real necessity of our existence, but a manifestation of our whims and recklessness. One example of this can be the inconspicuous rabbit, which was brought to Australia in 1895 only for entertainment (hunting), and consequently caused a significant ecological disaster: the fast growth of its population resulted in the destruction of local vegetation, and thus in the erosion of soil. It took more than 100 years for Australia to cope with this disaster – in 1996 the problem of the plague was solved, but we do not know to what extent the ecosystem has been restored. The territorial expansiveness of humans resembles that of rabbits. Their mobility and rapid economic development have turned them into an invasive species, killing biodiversity and disturbing the harmonious distribution of beings. Don't be fooled, however – say the exhibition curators Dominika Drozdowska, Marzena Krzemińska-Baluch and Joanna Stembalska. It is not only us humans who are an invasive species. Our companion pet, a cat, is one as well. Besides, you will see for yourself how Ben Wright addresses these issues. In September, the American artist and biologist undertook a residency organised as part of the collaboration between BWA Wrocław and the Academy of Fine Arts in Wrocław, and now he has created an exhibition at the SIC! BWA Wrocław Gallery. However, the mere consideration and defining human being as an "invasive species" is not enough for him. What more can an artist do besides transforming the distorted image of the contemporary world into their own artistic statement? – ask the exhibition curators. They may strive for synthesis, but they cannot do without the grotesque or at least a shadow of irony. This is what constitutes the creative power of Ben Wright and his aesthetic eclecticism . The exhibition will give us an opportunity to take a closer look at Ben Wright's format of work called Vivisection. It is an overloaded site specific installation, composed of various media: glass, paper collages, photographs, videos, objects and sculptures. I think artists often portray their ideas as finished, polished objects – says Ben Wright. 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Two distinct yet symbiotic brains speak in the overlapping visual languages of a mashed up cultural construction. Like a co-joined fascination at the freak show, their four hands pass ideas and materials lovingly and mercilessly back and forth to amplify the excess until it vibrates just right. When the collaboration is complete, it is irrelevant where one brother’s influence ends and the other’s inspiration begins. The pervasive themes of duality, tragic humor, double image and contradiction present a conversation interrupted that defies our desire for simple conclusions. In 1998, the brothers produced a show at UrbanGlass titled 11:58 PMAD that presented a dystopian view of the approaching turn of the century. In a country under the incompetent rule of a benevolently evil W and gripped by the irrational fear of a flipping decimal few could imagine a future more dire. The brothers could and did. With their usual fatalistic humor, they kept us laughing to satisfy our need to cry. Now twenty years into the 21st century “High Noon” displays the prescience of that dark vision. We now find ourselves floundering in the “pastopian” responsibility of an Anthropocene reality where we clumsily juggle the fate of our planet with every lurch towards global meltdown. We look to our mad amoral berserker in chief, glowing bright orange atop his glistening pile of big macs, and miraculously summon nostalgia for the bumbling of our simpler past. Through the optical magic of luscious lenticular images and super saturated three-dimensional wallpaper the artists have invited our modern-day Boschian beasts to romp around in a hyper-sensory garden of earthly delights. Our wits are subjected to a state of psychedelic overload that draws us deeply into endless layers of excess and macabre opulence. The archeological layering of ubiquitous digital emoji over an ancient mandala made of disposable dollar store bling serves to remind us of the timeless nature of these struggles. By straddling borders and cultures and borrowing freely from the languages and symbols they encounter on their endless global travels the brothers are able to vacillate between critical outsiders and enthusiastic appropriators. The resulting mashup is both utterly specific to time and place and universally approachable and digestible. The carefully bilitterate text that the artists offer up in titles and embedded in the work are Easter eggs planted in plain sight to assist in the unpacking of these visually and conceptually dense offerings. The brothers are cunning linguists and never miss an opportunity for word play, often combining dialects to create double entendre and inject a kick in the gut sense of humor to the dialog. As tireless educators and prodigious and highly visibly creators, Einar and Jamex have long flown the flag for the freak contingent of the glass community. Through direct mentorship and as reluctant role models the brothers have influenced a generation of artists to abandon the precious and stale stereotypes of how and for what glass should be used. By breaking free of these tropes, they have lead the way towards a weirder, more wondrous future for the field. With “High Noon”, the two-headed de la serpent gnaws at the Achilles heel of a dying culture yet feeds to us the beautiful crinkly skins of our serpentine rebirth. The message is clear: something is definitely rotten in the state of our state. Awash in their hyper reality we are presented with the distinct possibility that it may have to all burn to the ground on our path to reincarnation. Though cynically pessimistic about our current state of affairs, there still lingers the slightest whiff of ironic hope that our salvation may still rest amidst our rush to self-destruction. https://static1.squarespace.com/static/51bdef25e4b0b873de10e6ef/t/5e7bfeef3516be38d8f048c5/1585184503902/high+noon+header.jpg High Noon http://www.bensnuffywright.com/symbioticspheres daily 0.75 2020-05-07 https://static1.squarespace.com/static/51bdef25e4b0b873de10e6ef/t/5e7e570e63d7965a8864ff06/1585338132533/symbiotic+spheres+header.jpg Symbiotic Spheres https://static1.squarespace.com/static/51bdef25e4b0b873de10e6ef/t/5ea9b145c4b6b3423833caa9/1588179470052/scientificglass_SS2018.jpg Symbiotic Spheres - Curatorial Statement on The Interlocking Worlds of Glass, Science, and Art The 28 diverse artists represented in this show draw inspiration from across a wide spectrum of scientific inquiry. They express their ideas through the glass objects, mixed-media sculptures, and site-specific installations strategically placed throughout the museum. From the exquisite precision of scientific glass apparatus to the light bending optics of color, the artists employ glass in a variety of manners to take advantage of the material’s unique properties. Like catalysts of curiosity, the suggested narratives and scientific principles embedded in the artworks are prisms through which to rediscover the wonder and fun of the glass treasures and mysterious objects that fill this museum. Explore. Question. Learn. 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Rik Allen and Lanny Bergner https://static1.squarespace.com/static/51bdef25e4b0b873de10e6ef/5ea73a8a8a71a01c3608d1d2/5eb36bfa97d8e64ff9345f71/1588816898063/IMG_1398.JPG Symbiotic Spheres https://static1.squarespace.com/static/51bdef25e4b0b873de10e6ef/5ea73a8a8a71a01c3608d1d2/5eb36be048648218645288fa/1588818320505/IMG_1094.JPG Symbiotic Spheres - Hiromi Takizawa https://static1.squarespace.com/static/51bdef25e4b0b873de10e6ef/5ea73a8a8a71a01c3608d1d2/5eb36bd4c66c882b35d0c55e/1588818593157/IanBurns_Mantra_SS2018_photocredit_Robert+C.+Beck+and+Sarah+Max+Beck.jpg Symbiotic Spheres - Ian Burns https://static1.squarespace.com/static/51bdef25e4b0b873de10e6ef/5ea73a8a8a71a01c3608d1d2/5ea7433a31e9b91771cee947/1588020068844/RobertCBeckandSarahMaxBeck_ToFetchaPailofWater_interiordetail_SS2018_photocredit_Robert+C.+Beck+and+Sarah+Max+Beck.jpg Symbiotic Spheres https://static1.squarespace.com/static/51bdef25e4b0b873de10e6ef/5ea73a8a8a71a01c3608d1d2/5ea742fc9b1f162f4bc9fa85/1588020051840/Robert+C.+Beck+and+Sarah+Max+Beck_To+Fetch+a+Pail+of+Water_view+one_SS2018_photocredit_Robert+C.+Beck+and+Sarah+Max+Beck.jpg Symbiotic Spheres https://static1.squarespace.com/static/51bdef25e4b0b873de10e6ef/5ea73a8a8a71a01c3608d1d2/5ea742a750aab443f4a1d81a/1588818586175/Robert+C.+Beck+and+Sarah+Max+Beck_To+Fetch+a+Pail+of+Water_SS2018_photocredit_Robert+C.+Beck+and+Sarah+Max+Beck.jpg Symbiotic Spheres - 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Karen Donnellan and John Hogan https://static1.squarespace.com/static/51bdef25e4b0b873de10e6ef/5ea73a8a8a71a01c3608d1d2/5ea7423ef3332b2760911f48/1588818574577/JessicaJaneJulius_Youcannotbemanufactured_SS2018_photocredit_Robert+C.+Beck+and+Sarah+Max+Beck.jpg Symbiotic Spheres - Jessica Julius https://static1.squarespace.com/static/51bdef25e4b0b873de10e6ef/5ea73a8a8a71a01c3608d1d2/5ea73ad4f943bc783bc07f9e/1588818327619/DickMarquis_Zanfirico+Retort+with+Chemistry+Set_SS2018_photocredit_Robert+C.+Beck+and+Sarah+Max+Beck.jpg Symbiotic Spheres - Dick Marquis https://static1.squarespace.com/static/51bdef25e4b0b873de10e6ef/5ea73a8a8a71a01c3608d1d2/5ea73abe50aab443f49f92bd/1588818349669/DavidKing_bottlecase_SS2018_photocredit_Robert+C.+Beck+and+Sarah+Max+Beck.jpg Symbiotic Spheres - David King https://static1.squarespace.com/static/51bdef25e4b0b873de10e6ef/5ea73a8a8a71a01c3608d1d2/5ea73ab8f943bc783bc07899/1588818358735/DavidKing_AllThingsAreOnlyTransitory_%28windowcase%29_SS2018_photocredit_Robert+C.+Beck+and+SarahMaxBeck.jpg Symbiotic Spheres - David King https://static1.squarespace.com/static/51bdef25e4b0b873de10e6ef/5ea73a8a8a71a01c3608d1d2/5ea73a8a2b0ea729cc58f4d5/1588818366033/BryanMcGovernWilson_APHP-+The+Song+of+Sister+S_Panorama_SS2018_photocredit_Robert+C.+Beck+and+Sarah+Max+Beck.jpg Symbiotic Spheres - Bryan Wilson https://static1.squarespace.com/static/51bdef25e4b0b873de10e6ef/5ea73a8a8a71a01c3608d1d2/5ea73a8a8a71a01c3608d1dd/1588818373252/ZacWeinberg_Suggested+Parameters_SS2018_photocredit_Robert+C.+Beck+and+Sarah+Max+Beck.jpg Symbiotic Spheres - Zac Weinberg http://www.bensnuffywright.com/pushingbuttons daily 0.75 2020-05-01 https://static1.squarespace.com/static/51bdef25e4b0b873de10e6ef/5e7e422b7d4e8e318736c9c2/5eab8b612c99571428733d23/1588300720514/Pushing+Buttons+%2810+of+41%29.jpg Pushing Buttons https://static1.squarespace.com/static/51bdef25e4b0b873de10e6ef/5e7e422b7d4e8e318736c9c2/5eab8aee6f6db90e1cb60af3/1588300546504/overviewfront.jpg Pushing Buttons https://static1.squarespace.com/static/51bdef25e4b0b873de10e6ef/5e7e422b7d4e8e318736c9c2/5eab8a51f2c94919cba081f0/1588300378708/IMG_9801.JPG Pushing Buttons https://static1.squarespace.com/static/51bdef25e4b0b873de10e6ef/5e7e422b7d4e8e318736c9c2/5eab8a336f6db90e1cb5e5c6/1588300350357/Dorothy-vort.jpg Pushing Buttons https://static1.squarespace.com/static/51bdef25e4b0b873de10e6ef/5e7e422b7d4e8e318736c9c2/5eab8a29c455f14a97fae584/1588300344555/Dorothy-wheel.jpg Pushing Buttons https://static1.squarespace.com/static/51bdef25e4b0b873de10e6ef/5e7e422b7d4e8e318736c9c2/5e7e46bed6fbed7437a22329/1588299076608/Pushing+Buttons+%2815+of+41%29.jpg Pushing Buttons - Sunita Prasad https://static1.squarespace.com/static/51bdef25e4b0b873de10e6ef/5e7e422b7d4e8e318736c9c2/5e7e4695075b346ec3aada82/1588299066153/Pushing+Buttons+%2814+of+41%29.jpg Pushing Buttons - Sunita Prasad Sunita Prasad is a New York City based artist and filmmaker. Prasad’s work has been exhibited internationally with solo shows and screenings at Momenta Art in New York City, Homesession in Barcelona, Centre Clark in Montreal, and Vox Populi Gallery in Philadelphia. She has also participated in group shows at the Palais de Tokyo in Paris, Stadtgalerie Bern, and Flux Factory in New York. She has received awards from the Art Matters Foundation, the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs, and the Warner Bros. Production Fund. https://static1.squarespace.com/static/51bdef25e4b0b873de10e6ef/5e7e422b7d4e8e318736c9c2/5e7e467c5ed80a4219a7c99e/1588299046706/Pushing+Buttons+%289+of+41%29.jpg Pushing Buttons - John Roach https://static1.squarespace.com/static/51bdef25e4b0b873de10e6ef/5e7e422b7d4e8e318736c9c2/5e7e465f506cbf5eb0bbb18d/1588299040863/Pushing+Buttons+%288+of+41%29.jpg Pushing Buttons - John Roach John Roach is an interdisciplinary artist from Queens New York whose work exploits fissures between materials, objects, and our everyday experiences. Of particular interest is human perception and how it filters our experience of the world, he explores this through a variety of forms including installation, sound art, collaborative performances, sculpture, and participatory experiences. Many of his works are collaborative including Symbiotext a current project with the evolutionary biologist John Burns that brings together the genome of a salamander and green algae to control a text-based sound installation; Frozen Words Hot Air, a performance for two glass blowers, three musicians and a fusion of Donald Trump and François Rabelais at Urban Glass, Brooklyn; Gene Splicing for two percussionists, two glass blowers and DNA data for the 9e2 Festival of Art and Technology in Seattle, WA; and Stone Cold Groove in which he worked with local historians as well as a group of children to explore the historical and sonic resonances of the local marble quarries in Dorset Vermont. John received a BA in English from Rutgers University and an MFA in painting from Hunter College. He is a full time Faculty at Parsons School of Design where he teaches a wide range of courses that address the aesthetic, spatial, emotional, psychological, and political impact of sound. https://static1.squarespace.com/static/51bdef25e4b0b873de10e6ef/5e7e422b7d4e8e318736c9c2/5e7e464547c7f816da9e81d6/1588299004706/Pushing+Buttons+%287+of+41%29.jpg Pushing Buttons - Paul DeMarinis Paul DeMarinis has been making noises with wires, batteries and household appliances since the age of four. One of the first artists to use microcomputers, DeMarinis has toiled since the 1970's in the areas of interactive software, synthetic speech, noise and obsolete or impossible media. He has created installations, performances and public artworks throughout North America, Europe, Australia and Asia. He is a Professor in the Department of Art & Art History at Stanford University in California. https://static1.squarespace.com/static/51bdef25e4b0b873de10e6ef/5e7e422b7d4e8e318736c9c2/5e7e4627b042e9754b33ee29/1588298961787/overviewside.jpg Pushing Buttons - Exhibition Overview https://static1.squarespace.com/static/51bdef25e4b0b873de10e6ef/5e7e422b7d4e8e318736c9c2/5e7e458f3ae6d4439b7aceed/1588298934107/Pushing+Buttons+%2820+of+41%29.jpg Pushing Buttons - Lili Maya and James Rouvelle https://static1.squarespace.com/static/51bdef25e4b0b873de10e6ef/5e7e422b7d4e8e318736c9c2/5e7e456e554fd6780a6e4780/1588298926242/Pushing+Buttons+%2819+of+41%29.jpg Pushing Buttons - Lili Maya and James Rouvelle https://static1.squarespace.com/static/51bdef25e4b0b873de10e6ef/5e7e422b7d4e8e318736c9c2/5e7e4544fa919e2e910f9965/1588298914305/Pushing+Buttons+%2817+of+41%29.jpg Pushing Buttons - Lili Maya and James Rouvelle https://static1.squarespace.com/static/51bdef25e4b0b873de10e6ef/5e7e422b7d4e8e318736c9c2/5e7e45365dad3f3c15e6c65b/1588298896039/Pushing+Buttons+%2816+of+41%29.jpg Pushing Buttons - Lili Maya and James Rouvelle https://static1.squarespace.com/static/51bdef25e4b0b873de10e6ef/5e7e422b7d4e8e318736c9c2/5e7e451f63d7965a8861495c/1588298886903/overview.jpg Pushing Buttons - Lili Maya and James Rouvelle Lili Maya is an artist with a diverse background in art and design. She graduated from the Rhode Island School of Design with an MFA in Digital + Media and a BFA in Graphic Design. Before making art the focus of her professional practice, Lili worked as a graphic designer for several years. As an artist, she has exhibited her work nationally and internationally and considers drawing to be at the core of her process. Drawing informs her approach to all media and emerging technologies both formally and conceptually. In 2009 Lili began working with artist James Rouvelle in New York as part of the Maya + Rouvelle artist duo. Their collaboration integrates traditional and emerging media into art objects, installations and performances. James Rouvelle grew up in New York and began his creative life as a composer and performer. His early works were structured improvisations composed for different ensembles, ranging from traditional Western instrumentation to hybrid groupings that included electronics and non­traditional instruments. Eventually James’ interest in the connections between traditional and modern art and culture led him to study emerging technology. Now he develops projects and forms that explore and invigorate the presence of the traditional within the materials of the present. James now works with artist Lili Maya, as Maya + Rouvelle. https://static1.squarespace.com/static/51bdef25e4b0b873de10e6ef/5e7e422b7d4e8e318736c9c2/5e7e44e514477f68e70522de/1588298836960/detail2.jpg Pushing Buttons - Lili Maya and James Rouvelle https://static1.squarespace.com/static/51bdef25e4b0b873de10e6ef/5e7e422b7d4e8e318736c9c2/5e7e44e563d7965a8861383b/1588298879333/detail.jpg Pushing Buttons - Lili Maya and James Rouvelle https://static1.squarespace.com/static/51bdef25e4b0b873de10e6ef/5e7e422b7d4e8e318736c9c2/5e7e42f186693d3dccefef99/1588300180903/Pushing+Buttons+%2826+of+41%29.jpg Pushing Buttons - Jim Campbell https://static1.squarespace.com/static/51bdef25e4b0b873de10e6ef/5e7e422b7d4e8e318736c9c2/5e7e42edfa919e2e910f1209/1588300193129/Pushing+Buttons+%2824+of+41%29.jpg Pushing Buttons - Jim Campbell https://static1.squarespace.com/static/51bdef25e4b0b873de10e6ef/5e7e422b7d4e8e318736c9c2/5e7e42c5854e1012beb51e63/1588300185109/overview.jpg Pushing Buttons - Jim Campbell Jim Campbell’s work has been exhibited internationally and throughout North America in institutions such as the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art; The International Center for Photography, New York; The J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles and the Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney, Australia. His electronic art work is included in the permanent collections of the Museum of Modern Art, New York; the Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington, DC; the Whitney Museum of American Art; the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York; the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art; the de Young Museum, San Francisco and the Berkeley Art Museum. In 2012, he was the recipient of the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art’s 13th Annual Bay Area Treasure Award. Previous honors include a Rockefeller Foundation Fellowship Award in Multimedia, three Langlois Foundation Grants and a Guggenheim Fellowship Award. He has two Bachelor of Science Degrees in Mathematics and Engineering from MIT and as an engineer holds nearly twenty patents in the field of video image processing. A monograph of his work, Material Light, was published by Hatje Cantz in 2010. https://static1.squarespace.com/static/51bdef25e4b0b873de10e6ef/5e7e422b7d4e8e318736c9c2/5e7e42c0506cbf5eb0bad125/1588298769270/Pushing+Buttons+%2812+of+41%29.jpg Pushing Buttons - Ian Burns https://static1.squarespace.com/static/51bdef25e4b0b873de10e6ef/5e7e422b7d4e8e318736c9c2/5e7e4293e8e5be5d5882a10a/1588298763581/Pushing+Buttons+%2811+of+41%29.jpg Pushing Buttons - Ian Burns Ian Burns’ artworks revolve around the development of processes that subjugate the seductions of technological media and clichés to supporting roles in the creation of forms and systems that privilege the unique experiences of physicality, investigation, and awareness to be found on that thin line between the poetic and the ridiculous. Burns’ work has been widely exhibited internationally. He has had numerous solo exhibitions in the USA, Australia, Spain, Ireland, and Austria. His work has been included in recent major museum exhibitions in the USA, Australia, South Korea, Belgium, and The United Arab Emirates. His work is included in major public and private collections in the USA, Australia, New Zealand, Germany, Austria, Spain and Mexico. His encounters with glass began with some optical experiments and has continued through residency projects at Pilchuck Glass Art School and UrbanGlass. https://static1.squarespace.com/static/51bdef25e4b0b873de10e6ef/5e7e422b7d4e8e318736c9c2/5e7e428b15eff3354c90f5e8/1588298671657/Pushing+Buttons+%2836+of+41%29.jpg Pushing Buttons - Robert and Sarah Beck https://static1.squarespace.com/static/51bdef25e4b0b873de10e6ef/5e7e422b7d4e8e318736c9c2/5e7e42643ae6d4439b7a2b9e/1588298663706/Pushing+Buttons+%2835+of+41%29.jpg Pushing Buttons - Robert and Sarah Beck https://static1.squarespace.com/static/51bdef25e4b0b873de10e6ef/5e7e422b7d4e8e318736c9c2/5e7e422b1173962cc0821631/1588300119476/overview.jpg Pushing Buttons - Robert and Sarah Beck Sarah Max Beck: Sarah moved to central Florida in 1989 with her family where she grew up along the shores of Lake Harney and the Saint John’s River. She helped raise cattle on her family’s ranch while she studied fine art at the University of Central Florida. After graduating she worked as studio manager for Ke Francis and the Hoopsnake Press. Her work with reclaimed plastics has been included in several exhibitions including the Florida Contemporary at the Orlando Museum of Art. She helped produce work for James Sienna and the University of Central Florida’s fine arts press Flying Horse Editions and is now working in NYC with Hydrostatic by designing and building ecological systems installations. She is also an active NYC bee keeper. Robert C. Beck: Beck studied fine art with a concentration in printmaking at Rollins College in Winter Park, Florida; then drawing and painting at the Lyme Academy of Fine Art, Old Lyme, Connecticut. He was a collaborative master printer for Flying Horse Editions for ten years. His work appears in the collections of museums, as well as public and private collections, including the city of Winter Park; the Morse Museum of American Art; the Museum of Florida Art; Rollins College and the Timucua Arts Foundation. He currently cooperates a bio-art research project, studio Hydrostatic, with his wife Sarah Max Beck in Brooklyn, NY. https://static1.squarespace.com/static/51bdef25e4b0b873de10e6ef/5e7e422b7d4e8e318736c9c2/5e7e422b506cbf5eb0bab40b/1588300110283/detail.jpg Pushing Buttons - Robert and Sarah Beck https://static1.squarespace.com/static/51bdef25e4b0b873de10e6ef/t/5e7e3f27854e1012beb44ccf/1585332014606/pushing+buttons+header.jpg Pushing Buttons https://static1.squarespace.com/static/51bdef25e4b0b873de10e6ef/t/5eab81db6f6db90e1cb42654/1588298237785/overview+back.jpg Pushing Buttons - Exhibiting Artists: Sarah Max Beck, Robert C. Beck, Ian Burns, Jim Campbell, Paul DeMarinis, Lili Maya, James Rouvelle, Sunita Prasad and John Roach The expanded use of glass as an artistic medium emerged in the late sixties, roughly coinciding with the rise to prominence of video, performance, bio art and other "New Media". Since their emergence, these new media have developed along similar trajectories to that of the studio glass movement. From nascent periods of direct and drippy material experimentation they developed adolescent obsessions with increasingly slick expressions of skill for skill's sake. In their current midlife iteration, both have landed in a realm where craft is assumed and deftly applied to concept. The artists included in Pushing Buttons represent a myriad of backgrounds and fields of inquiry, yet all share an inherently hybrid and inquisitive approach to making and thinking. Their intuitive and exploratory artistic practices have allowed them to effectively integrate the creative and conceptual possibilities of combining glass with New Media. Much can be learned about the expressive potentials of the material by tracking these artist’s innate responses when presented with a new and potent art making tool. Drawn to the acoustics, transparency, and optics of glass, the artists in the exhibition have cleverly engaged glass to contain, reveal, distort, and resonate systems of image, sound, and information. http://www.bensnuffywright.com/athinveneer daily 0.75 2020-05-08 https://static1.squarespace.com/static/51bdef25e4b0b873de10e6ef/t/5ea76340b954b360922d704a/1588028233926/a+thin+veneer+header.jpg A Thin Veneer https://static1.squarespace.com/static/51bdef25e4b0b873de10e6ef/t/5eb4b4b881fb3b78554f5382/1588901742618/stick+your+finger+%282+of+1%29.jpg A Thin Veneer - Participating Artists: Rebecca Carter, Kelly Goff, Mallie Loring, Suzanne Peck, Erin Perry, Alexandra Pisarro-Grant, Sunita Prasad, Nora Salzman, Steve Silber, Brett Swenson, Bryan Wilson In the beginning knowing our world through the unworried skin of our chubby palms and the moist nodules of our gaping maws. our eyes take command we endeavor to define I. Budding adolescence bringing elastic, ecstatic pleasures of the flesh paired with cringing calcification of protective shells. Defying adult narrowness artists probe and project, lick and shave, stretch and tear, reveal, play and hide within literal, cultural and mythical metaphoric crusts. Stick your finger in the pie what are we without our barriers? erode the ever-present membrane between art and nonart, artist and nonartist Probe the thin veneer between you and not you https://static1.squarespace.com/static/51bdef25e4b0b873de10e6ef/5e7e50efaff3dd28069818e7/5e7e511bd5037c11579d570f/1588901556040/sunita+close.JPG A Thin Veneer - Sunita Prasad Sunita Prasad makes films, videos, performances, and photographs in Providence, RI and Brooklyn, NY. Her work has shown at several film festivals, galleries, and performance venues, including the Brooklyn Museum as part of the Brooklyn International Film Festival, Dixon Place as part of the Hot Festival, and Symphony Space as part of the Reel Venus Film Festival. “Kiss brings my two drag personae, Sunny and Benny, into skin-to-skin contact with one another for the first time. This is a very special moment for these two characters. The history of their relationship includes online and phone chats, a little dancing, a little shape shifting. But this is the first time they stand face-to-face, gaze into each other's eyes, and express their oneness through a gesture of love. The piece also meditates on bisexuality by taking the term literally, mixing and matching gender combinations within a single kiss.” https://static1.squarespace.com/static/51bdef25e4b0b873de10e6ef/5e7e50efaff3dd28069818e7/5e7e510f5ae8b9389585b23e/1588901492064/over1.JPG A Thin Veneer - Overview https://static1.squarespace.com/static/51bdef25e4b0b873de10e6ef/5e7e50efaff3dd28069818e7/5e7e510ed6fbed7437a44a96/1588901531610/noratandj.JPG A Thin Veneer - Nora Salzman Nora Salzman was born in Chicago, IL. The RISD library has a video that her late mother made called “Four More Years.” The “documentary covers the 1972 Republican National Convention in Miami Beach. Particular emphasis is placed on the younger people who attended it.” Call number: JK2353 .F68 1972 “Masking” represents the magical but temporary transformation between genders or identities. The transformations are “just enough” approximations in order to create a believable fiction. I lengthen the belief in the fiction by exploiting the embedded expectations of truth-value intrinsic to each medium. For example, a painting implies fantasy while the photo is fact. I take the assumptions of truth-value from one genre and lend them to another by cycling through painting, sculpture, and photography. As a narrative, the multiple iterations and combinations of props confuses what is real and who is the original.” https://static1.squarespace.com/static/51bdef25e4b0b873de10e6ef/5e7e50efaff3dd28069818e7/5e7e510b15eff3354c941b7d/1585336594786/mice+and+chair.JPG A Thin Veneer https://static1.squarespace.com/static/51bdef25e4b0b873de10e6ef/5e7e50efaff3dd28069818e7/5e7e510b1173962cc08560ff/1585336594619/noraclose.jpg A Thin Veneer https://static1.squarespace.com/static/51bdef25e4b0b873de10e6ef/5e7e50efaff3dd28069818e7/5e7e50f6e1a6fc55dd3f6b0a/1588901499442/DSC_0098.JPG A Thin Veneer - Bryan Wilson Bryan Wilson is a glassmaker, filmmaker, and performer. He grew up in Missoula, MT and enjoys death metal. “The choices we make to display our bodies, how we perform our gender, race, and sexuality all contribute to our understanding of persona. Occasionally, we realize that we have accumulated so many symbols and markers of identity that we have forgotten who and what we are. Symptoms of this condition manifest as profound confusion and cognitive dissonance. The antidote presents itself as an affirmation of the body as a blank canvas, a ritual to acknowledge the accumulation of these symbols, and the choice to accept or break free from their constraints. The cure may include discomfort, humiliation, and trauma, but it can present one with a newfound love of the air, skin, and the freedom to choose.” https://static1.squarespace.com/static/51bdef25e4b0b873de10e6ef/5e7e50efaff3dd28069818e7/5e7e50f614477f68e707b74f/1588901426714/brett3.JPG A Thin Veneer - Brett Swenson Brett Swenson was born and raised in the North Chicago suburbs. He attended Beloit College in 2005 and transferred to RISD in 2007. He is currently a 3rd year Undergraduate Glass Major at RISD. “ The face acts as a projector of identity and displays a person's state of being at any given time. The language of the face is universal, while at the same time capable of trickery and deception. The individual hides behind their face while others project their own conceptions onto them.” https://static1.squarespace.com/static/51bdef25e4b0b873de10e6ef/5e7e50efaff3dd28069818e7/5e7e50ef5ae8b9389585aa6c/1585336569193/beckysit.JPG A Thin Veneer https://static1.squarespace.com/static/51bdef25e4b0b873de10e6ef/5e7e50efaff3dd28069818e7/5e7e50efaff3dd28069818f8/1588901464853/beckyhelp.JPG A Thin Veneer - Rebecca Carter Rebecca Carter spent her childhood frequently moving house with her family. By the age of eight, she had relocated to thirteen homes, in three countries, two states, and countless towns. Through these moves, she was forced to constantly purge the toys and objects of her life that were deemed unimportant causing her to develop close relationships with the objects that could be taken. “ These objects are not actually me, and in the end, are impermanent, unsatisfying, unfulfilling. They act as an anchor to my life, limiting my ability to feel free in the world. In this performance I am slowly carrying the pieces on my body, keeping them close to me, creating a costume out of them, letting them define me, but also exploring the physical and emotional weight of this kind of material attachment, and the struggle.” http://www.bensnuffywright.com/bienvenue daily 0.75 2020-06-29 https://static1.squarespace.com/static/51bdef25e4b0b873de10e6ef/t/5e7e5492d5037c11579e19e1/1585337504547/bienvenue+header.jpg Bienvenue https://static1.squarespace.com/static/51bdef25e4b0b873de10e6ef/5e7e54b9506cbf5eb0becec0/5e7e5525554fd6780a71af04/1593389611013/IMG_6489.JPG Bienvenue - Amanda Patenaude https://static1.squarespace.com/static/51bdef25e4b0b873de10e6ef/5e7e54b9506cbf5eb0becec0/5e7e551cb042e9754b374ac4/1593389586016/IMG_6469.JPG Bienvenue - Jessica Jane Julius https://static1.squarespace.com/static/51bdef25e4b0b873de10e6ef/5e7e54b9506cbf5eb0becec0/5e7e5510b042e9754b374803/1585337640314/DSC_0837.JPG Bienvenue https://static1.squarespace.com/static/51bdef25e4b0b873de10e6ef/5e7e54b9506cbf5eb0becec0/5e7e55000a5e5d2a3e12a65e/1593389625361/DSC_0810.JPG Bienvenue - Zac Weinberg https://static1.squarespace.com/static/51bdef25e4b0b873de10e6ef/5e7e54b9506cbf5eb0becec0/5e7e54ef844cdb35840b6004/1593389632142/DSC_0801.JPG Bienvenue - Zac Weinberg https://static1.squarespace.com/static/51bdef25e4b0b873de10e6ef/5e7e54b9506cbf5eb0becec0/5e7e54de075b346ec3ae07b1/1585337586217/DSC_0797.JPG Bienvenue https://static1.squarespace.com/static/51bdef25e4b0b873de10e6ef/5e7e54b9506cbf5eb0becec0/5e7e54db79950130734b8374/1593389616998/DSC_0790.JPG Bienvenue - Ben Wright https://static1.squarespace.com/static/51bdef25e4b0b873de10e6ef/5e7e54b9506cbf5eb0becec0/5e7e54c6e8e5be5d5886afe8/1585337727329/DSC_0752.JPG Bienvenue https://static1.squarespace.com/static/51bdef25e4b0b873de10e6ef/5e7e54b9506cbf5eb0becec0/5e7e54c6554fd6780a71980e/1593389682895/DSC_0766.JPG Bienvenue - Joana Manousis http://www.bensnuffywright.com/press daily 0.75 2021-01-20 https://static1.squarespace.com/static/51bdef25e4b0b873de10e6ef/t/5ea9bfcc77dd9c4339a3c29d/1588182997967/press.jpg PRESS http://www.bensnuffywright.com/mansbestfriend daily 0.75 2020-04-30 https://static1.squarespace.com/static/51bdef25e4b0b873de10e6ef/t/5eaa606f525cf600be635512/1588224134409/overview+1.jpg Man's Best Friend My work tackles the relationship that we humans have with our natural and synthetic environments. From a biological standpoint, we are truly odd creatures. We shape our surroundings and the species that we come in contact with at an alarming rate and in an unmatched scale. All too often, the unintended consequences of past actions return to affect our present and future livelihood. In coming to Japan I decided to concentrate on the relationship back and forth between plants and humans. I settled upon the case study of rice as an ideal example of a species in coevolution with humans. Just as we have changed greatly from our hunter-gatherer past, so too has rice mutated from a wild grass into the most important and abundant food staple on earth. All of the pieces in this show addressed on some level from the microscopic to the panoramic my ever-changing position in the dynamic and fluid systems that I inhabit. By extracting and examining a few details of this system, I hoped to gain a greater knowledge of the system as a whole and my role in perpetuating and preserving a delicate balance. With sincerest gratitude to the faculty, staff and students of Toyama Institute of Glass Art for their amazing hospitality and countless hours of help. Most of all, a very special thanks to Erika Tada, my tireless and dedicated assistant. https://static1.squarespace.com/static/51bdef25e4b0b873de10e6ef/t/5eaa6042dc8b890a7696a2a5/1588224071653/mans+best+friend+header.jpg Man's Best Friend https://static1.squarespace.com/static/51bdef25e4b0b873de10e6ef/5eaa63aec2609667f6904a47/5eaa63b74f2f3e5a01d48b67/1588224961212/tigahotshop.jpg Man's Best Friend https://static1.squarespace.com/static/51bdef25e4b0b873de10e6ef/5eaa63aec2609667f6904a47/5eaa63b53109520ce17377ba/1588224957998/hotshop.jpg Man's Best Friend https://static1.squarespace.com/static/51bdef25e4b0b873de10e6ef/5eaa63aec2609667f6904a47/5eaa63b409312631bf7004ae/1588224953316/bonsaiman.jpg Man's Best Friend https://static1.squarespace.com/static/51bdef25e4b0b873de10e6ef/5eaa63aec2609667f6904a47/5eaa63ae7bbc02178bf03f24/1588224950477/bigball.jpg Man's Best Friend https://static1.squarespace.com/static/51bdef25e4b0b873de10e6ef/5eaa63aec2609667f6904a47/5eaa63ae60de577608c7ab55/1588224951845/beninstudio.jpg Man's Best Friend https://static1.squarespace.com/static/51bdef25e4b0b873de10e6ef/5eaa5e7246dc317f013284af/5eaa62bb525cf600be63a641/1588224744968/Ben+4.jpg Man's Best Friend https://static1.squarespace.com/static/51bdef25e4b0b873de10e6ef/5eaa5e7246dc317f013284af/5eaa62bb7bbc02178bf01b2d/1588224744891/Ben+1.jpg Man's Best Friend https://static1.squarespace.com/static/51bdef25e4b0b873de10e6ef/5eaa5e7246dc317f013284af/5eaa628fa8484054ef12eea1/1588224674567/JL1.JPG Man's Best Friend https://static1.squarespace.com/static/51bdef25e4b0b873de10e6ef/5eaa5e7246dc317f013284af/5eaa62842c3a767e64cbdcb7/1588224744879/log2.JPG Man's Best Friend https://static1.squarespace.com/static/51bdef25e4b0b873de10e6ef/5eaa5e7246dc317f013284af/5eaa62732ff52116d1ef8cb7/1588224635048/rice+edited.jpg Man's Best Friend https://static1.squarespace.com/static/51bdef25e4b0b873de10e6ef/5eaa5e7246dc317f013284af/5eaa5e9ea8484054ef126166/1588223656881/overview.jpg Man's Best Friend https://static1.squarespace.com/static/51bdef25e4b0b873de10e6ef/5eaa5e7246dc317f013284af/5eaa5e9ea8484054ef126165/1588223665638/overview+1.jpg Man's Best Friend https://static1.squarespace.com/static/51bdef25e4b0b873de10e6ef/5eaa5e7246dc317f013284af/5eaa5e958aa0b52dec568ac4/1588223641783/kitty.jpg Man's Best Friend https://static1.squarespace.com/static/51bdef25e4b0b873de10e6ef/5eaa5e7246dc317f013284af/5eaa5e8b2790182e18892191/1588223638167/_MG_0163.JPG Man's Best Friend https://static1.squarespace.com/static/51bdef25e4b0b873de10e6ef/5eaa5e7246dc317f013284af/5eaa5e84a2a5170de383218f/1588223632242/_MG_0044.JPG Man's Best Friend https://static1.squarespace.com/static/51bdef25e4b0b873de10e6ef/5eaa5e7246dc317f013284af/5eaa5e7b3109520ce172b837/1588223624782/bonsai2.JPG Man's Best Friend https://static1.squarespace.com/static/51bdef25e4b0b873de10e6ef/5eaa5e7246dc317f013284af/5eaa5e721a7c1870da7ae3f9/1588223611987/headshot.jpg Man's Best Friend http://www.bensnuffywright.com/freshmasters daily 0.75 2020-05-07 https://static1.squarespace.com/static/51bdef25e4b0b873de10e6ef/t/5eaa29e7525cf600be59c0db/1588210198134/201902_002_UrbanGlass_Exhibition_0125_fullresprint.jpg The Fresh Masters - Evan Burnett, Ana Parisi, James Ronner, Kris Rumman, and Heather Sutherland; Jurors: Graciella Cassel and Graham Caldwell The disparate nature of the work in front of you only hints at the richness of transdisciplinary variety found in a new generation of “glass art” practitioners. In the hands of talented young artists across the globe, this material is being manipulated with unprecedented skill to previously unimagined purposes. While this diversity is in of itself a readily apparent theme, the jurors and I were able to extract and tease some common threads evident in the work. I believe that these striking commonalities amongst a backdrop of creative individualism speak volumes about the culture that these artists are both creating and commenting on. Once the cutting room floor was covered with talented artist’s aspirations, Cassel observed that we had distilled “a visual and sensory space that questions reality and power”. It is hardly surprising but heartily encouraging that in an ecosystem of competing and diametrically opposed realities that reeks of corruption and the rampant abuse of power artists would rise up to address such prescient issues. Caldwell notes that the artists adeptly employ glass in relationship to a wide array of other materials and media to examine “the construction of gender and gender identity, memory, post colonialism, existential isolation, and comedy”. No longer content to speak passively through objects, each of these artists powerfully interjects themselves into the work either directly before the audience’s eyes or through the remnants or documentation of their performative acts. https://static1.squarespace.com/static/51bdef25e4b0b873de10e6ef/5eaa2aa09f981324a17ad556/5eaa2b710702a62b1737ddd3/1588210569688/201902_002_UrbanGlass_Exhibition_0337_fullresprint.jpg The Fresh Masters https://static1.squarespace.com/static/51bdef25e4b0b873de10e6ef/5eaa2aa09f981324a17ad556/5eaa2b6211eef77c8b3840bf/1588210550841/201902_002_UrbanGlass_Exhibition_0174_fullresprint.jpg The Fresh Masters https://static1.squarespace.com/static/51bdef25e4b0b873de10e6ef/5eaa2aa09f981324a17ad556/5eaa2b3811eef77c8b383a27/1588215854263/IMG_5834.JPG The Fresh Masters https://static1.squarespace.com/static/51bdef25e4b0b873de10e6ef/5eaa2aa09f981324a17ad556/5eaa2b371a7c1870da719fe1/1588215854366/IMG_5823.JPG The Fresh Masters https://static1.squarespace.com/static/51bdef25e4b0b873de10e6ef/5eaa2aa09f981324a17ad556/5eaa2b269f981324a17af5ac/1588215854256/IMG_5819.JPG The Fresh Masters https://static1.squarespace.com/static/51bdef25e4b0b873de10e6ef/5eaa2aa09f981324a17ad556/5eaa2b26a8484054ef096310/1588816440281/IMG_5815.JPG The Fresh Masters - Ana Parisi, Hiatus with no Hyphen https://static1.squarespace.com/static/51bdef25e4b0b873de10e6ef/5eaa2aa09f981324a17ad556/5eaa2b1b4f46fa106b3803bc/1588216620896/IMG_5785.JPG The Fresh Masters https://static1.squarespace.com/static/51bdef25e4b0b873de10e6ef/5eaa2aa09f981324a17ad556/5eaa2b1680320e177b288307/1588898160077/IMG_5783.JPG The Fresh Masters - Heather Sutherland, Revolution of Self-Exploration A Virginia native, Heather Sutherland recently graduated from the University of Wisconsin Madison with an MFA in Glass. Her body of work combines glass, various materials and language to depict concepts of gender, commodity, luxury, and labor. She has worked with institutions including Chrysler Museum Glass Studio, Tidewater Community College, Paycheck Glass School, among others. She taught summer courses at the University of Wisconsin in Madison and currently teaching fall semester at Salem Community College. Most recently she completed a residency with the Creative Glass Center of America with WheatonArts. https://static1.squarespace.com/static/51bdef25e4b0b873de10e6ef/5eaa2aa09f981324a17ad556/5eaa2b0e31ac8a03014dd62b/1588215854200/IMG_5781.JPG The Fresh Masters https://static1.squarespace.com/static/51bdef25e4b0b873de10e6ef/5eaa2aa09f981324a17ad556/5eaa2afde8f13b7deae73ef8/1588215854155/IMG_5752.JPG The Fresh Masters https://static1.squarespace.com/static/51bdef25e4b0b873de10e6ef/5eaa2aa09f981324a17ad556/5eaa2af92ff52116d1e5cb95/1588898134891/IMG_5749.JPG The Fresh Masters - Jimmy Ronner, Keep off The Grass James Ronner views art as a vector of progressive social change. The conceptual foundation of his work is firmly rooted in the self-generative role we collectively play in our cultural and technological co-evolution. His transdisciplinary yet fiercely material practice stems from his diverse personal, professional and academic experiences. Ronner completed a BS in 2005 with a double major in sculpture and molecular biology and a cell and molecular biology MSc in 2006. Ronner has taught at TsingHua University, CAFA Beijing and Alfred University. His work can be seen in both private and public collections in the US, P.R. China and Taiwan. Ronner has received national and international grants from several institutions including the Bernstein Fund, the Joan Mitchell Foundation and the Georges Lurcy Charitable Educational Trust. In May of 2017, Ronner completed an MFA at Alfred University where he was investigating multisensory immersive strategies which confront endemic cultural disengagement. https://static1.squarespace.com/static/51bdef25e4b0b873de10e6ef/5eaa2aa09f981324a17ad556/5eaa2aeb0702a62b1737c2f0/1588898293804/IMG_5744.JPG The Fresh Masters https://static1.squarespace.com/static/51bdef25e4b0b873de10e6ef/5eaa2aa09f981324a17ad556/5eaa2aea2ff52116d1e5ca3b/1588216620802/IMG_4779.JPG The Fresh Masters https://static1.squarespace.com/static/51bdef25e4b0b873de10e6ef/5eaa2aa09f981324a17ad556/5eaa2ae2dc8b890a768cf38f/1588216620796/IMG_4778.JPG The Fresh Masters https://static1.squarespace.com/static/51bdef25e4b0b873de10e6ef/5eaa2aa09f981324a17ad556/5eaa2adc4f46fa106b37f4e9/1588898239137/201902_002_UrbanGlass_Exhibition_0615_fullresprint.jpg The Fresh Masters - Kris Rumman, Local Kristine Rumman is an interdisciplinary artist whose work investigates the possibilities of what art can do that politics cannot. Comprised of sculpture, installation, performance, video, and object-making, Rumman works with technologies that are familiar forms for producing propaganda globally, ranging from security glass and empathy inducing lighting to self-help audio tapes, olfactory praxis and social platforms. Rumman grew up in Toledo, the birthplace of the Studio Glass Movement, where she began her nearly two-decade long relationship with glass. She graduated with a BFA from Bowling Green State University in 2008 and an MFA from Tyler School of Art in 2018. For her work, Rumman has received awards and grants including support from Temple Contemporary and The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, Laurie Wegmen Prize in Glass, and the GAS Student Exhibition: A Showcase of Emerging International Talent. Kristine Rumman is presently based in Philadelphia where she is an Instructor at Tyler School of Art and a new member at Vox Populi. https://static1.squarespace.com/static/51bdef25e4b0b873de10e6ef/5eaa2aa09f981324a17ad556/5eaa2ac13109520ce169d326/1588898114196/201902_002_UrbanGlass_Exhibition_0569_fullresprint.jpg The Fresh Masters - Evan Burnett, The Buscemi Plate v4 Evan Burnette, born in Springfield, Illinois, received his MFA from Ball State University in 2017. He currently resides in Portland, Oregon, where he is in the process of building a glass studio. His artwork combines many tenets of early 20th-century Surrealist thought, such as automatism and free expression, and integrates psychological, aesthetic, and ethical issues related to humor. His works show an interest in the concepts of both physical and mental play, part Dadaist, part social satire, and part toilet humor. https://static1.squarespace.com/static/51bdef25e4b0b873de10e6ef/5eaa2aa09f981324a17ad556/5eaa2ac0b0caa85f5c40fa37/1588815869816/201902_002_UrbanGlass_Exhibition_0538_fullresprint.jpg The Fresh Masters - Heather Sutherland, Party Girls https://static1.squarespace.com/static/51bdef25e4b0b873de10e6ef/5eaa2aa09f981324a17ad556/5eaa2aa03109520ce169cdbf/1588898300309/201902_002_UrbanGlass_Exhibition_0271_fullresprint.jpg The Fresh Masters - Ana Parisi, Raizes Anna Parisi is a Brazilian artist born in 1984 and based in Brooklyn whose practice is mostly centered in sculpture and performance. She earned a BA in communications from Pontifícia Universidade Católica (PUC-RJ) and her MFA in Fine Arts from Parsons School of Design. Through her research and work, Anna investigates the violent and traumatic experience of the erasure of black, female-coded and historically oppressed bodies. She is interested in provoking and creating a dialogue between distinct African Diasporas, working through ideas of decolonization of the mind. By expediting the process of corrosion on metal to reveal layers and layers of violence, oppression, and neglect, she gestures towards deconstructing racism and misogyny by pushing the material into its full erosion. Her interests lie in exploring ways of resistance to structural violence through the dismantling of racial hegemonies in her pieces. Anna has exhibited in Westbeth Gallery, Smack Mellon, Artigo Rio, Musée de l'Elysée Lausanne amongst others. https://static1.squarespace.com/static/51bdef25e4b0b873de10e6ef/5eaa2aa09f981324a17ad556/5eaa2aa03109520ce169cdbe/1588210373454/201902_002_UrbanGlass_Exhibition_0213_fullresprint.jpg The Fresh Masters https://static1.squarespace.com/static/51bdef25e4b0b873de10e6ef/t/5eaa29ae72a49d5a32f8703d/1588210102854/fresh+masters.jpg The Fresh Masters http://www.bensnuffywright.com/newclassics daily 0.75 2020-05-08 https://static1.squarespace.com/static/51bdef25e4b0b873de10e6ef/t/5eb4ab8008f6802da128d595/1588898696839/new+classics+header.jpg The New Classics https://static1.squarespace.com/static/51bdef25e4b0b873de10e6ef/t/5eb4b02813f058550a027028/1588900003282/Ruiz-neon02.jpg The New Classics - Curated by Rachel Rader and Ben Wright To define the 4th dimension of the glass world one must find the variables vibrating the farthest from the cultural norms and well-traveled orbits of the masses, so far off the atomic grid that they redefine it. The artists in this exhibition engage space, time and pseudo science with the sardonic wit of home chemistry enthusiasts. They have transformed this art orphanage into a wonderfully confusing psychedelic wormhole for you. As you wander the show, avoiding ubiquitous micro space rubbish, ponder the meaning of alien heads and lava lamps floating in a pool of shiny muck, attach significance to Drury’s impeccably curated horde and giggle at the sight of an aquatic tooth brushing orgy. Riccuto’s over-sized Kaledicsopemobile meets Hanson’s lab of inequity in a symbiotic and symbolic mash up of self-reflective worldviews. But do not overlook the quieter voices here. As glass fades eloquently into concrete into light and back again it creates harmonic undertones that float beneath the raucous chorus. Like a three ring circus, this show radiates more energy then can be logically consumed and dewy decimeled in a single dose. Strip your preconceptions of material, scale, and intent. Open your third eye and dive into the fountain of weird. I think you will find that the water is just fine… There is no question that glass attracts a community of eclectic practitioners that move to the beat of an idiosyncratic drummer. It defies rigid logic and acts of its own state shifting volition: freezing movement, transferring light, reflecting and distorting created realities. Even in this odd company, these artists are transgressive, the weird of the weird, non-conformist ill-fitting prosthetics of the glass world. They are busy producing the new classics of tomorrow. https://static1.squarespace.com/static/51bdef25e4b0b873de10e6ef/5eb4abb777ae6a5652fcef70/5eb4aca5d7c53419e8476b41/1593389528965/Duffy-alien+headset02.jpg The New Classics - Chris Duffy https://static1.squarespace.com/static/51bdef25e4b0b873de10e6ef/5eb4abb777ae6a5652fcef70/5eb4ac98e863b43dc5bc66c2/1593389524450/Duffy-alien+headset01jpg.jpg The New Classics - Chris Duffy https://static1.squarespace.com/static/51bdef25e4b0b873de10e6ef/5eb4abb777ae6a5652fcef70/5eb4ac87e7082e5c60dd1e79/1593389517902/Drury-Puddled+Light01.jpg The New Classics - John Drury https://static1.squarespace.com/static/51bdef25e4b0b873de10e6ef/5eb4abb777ae6a5652fcef70/5eb4ac76e490ba1f9348f6a1/1593389511479/Biddle-Mother01.jpg The New Classics - Megan Biddle https://static1.squarespace.com/static/51bdef25e4b0b873de10e6ef/5eb4abb777ae6a5652fcef70/5eb4ac642183e54cb726e009/1593389505421/Biddle-Hover03.jpg The New Classics - Megan Biddle https://static1.squarespace.com/static/51bdef25e4b0b873de10e6ef/5eb4abb777ae6a5652fcef70/5eb4ac57fa9e604b19e24d36/1593389498813/Biddle-a+section+of+time+03.jpg The New Classics - Megan Biddle https://static1.squarespace.com/static/51bdef25e4b0b873de10e6ef/5eb4abb777ae6a5652fcef70/5eb4ac482183e54cb726dc7f/1593388938216/Ruiz.jpg The New Classics - Esther Ruiz https://static1.squarespace.com/static/51bdef25e4b0b873de10e6ef/5eb4abb777ae6a5652fcef70/5eb4ac339012ef0fbded76d3/1593388930287/Ruiz-neon01.jpg The New Classics - Esther Ruiz https://static1.squarespace.com/static/51bdef25e4b0b873de10e6ef/5eb4abb777ae6a5652fcef70/5eb4ac269012ef0fbded7511/1593389488099/Ricciuto-Interloper+01.jpg The New Classics - Nate Ricciuto https://static1.squarespace.com/static/51bdef25e4b0b873de10e6ef/5eb4abb777ae6a5652fcef70/5eb4ac1b13f058550a01b2db/1593389469041/Laramee-debris+scatter+04.jpg The New Classics - Eve Andree Laramee https://static1.squarespace.com/static/51bdef25e4b0b873de10e6ef/5eb4abb777ae6a5652fcef70/5eb4ac102183e54cb726d147/1593389437689/gallery-Ricciuto%2C+Hansen.jpg The New Classics - Nate Ricciuto and Eli Hansen https://static1.squarespace.com/static/51bdef25e4b0b873de10e6ef/5eb4abb777ae6a5652fcef70/5eb4abffe7082e5c60dd05a6/1588899086600/gallery-Duffy%2C+Ricciuto%2C+Feather%2C+Laramee.jpg The New Classics https://static1.squarespace.com/static/51bdef25e4b0b873de10e6ef/5eb4abb777ae6a5652fcef70/5eb4abf381fb3b78554dd0ac/1593389421482/Feather-water+hammer01.jpg The New Classics - Beccy Feather https://static1.squarespace.com/static/51bdef25e4b0b873de10e6ef/5eb4abb777ae6a5652fcef70/5eb4abde13f058550a01a74d/1593388914170/Feather-teeth01.jpg The New Classics - Beccy Feather https://static1.squarespace.com/static/51bdef25e4b0b873de10e6ef/5eb4abb777ae6a5652fcef70/5eb4abd18c5d4a23f4c12c9f/1593388907257/Duffy-late+night+dinner+at+Madonna+Inn02.jpg The New Classics - Chris Duffy https://static1.squarespace.com/static/51bdef25e4b0b873de10e6ef/5eb4abb777ae6a5652fcef70/5eb4abc6625ddc66e9f274b9/1593388898873/Duffy-late+night+dinner+at+Madonna+Inn01.jpg The New Classics - Chris Duffy https://static1.squarespace.com/static/51bdef25e4b0b873de10e6ef/5eb4abb777ae6a5652fcef70/5eb4abb7bcecfc62f74532b2/1593388889323/Duffy-hands01.jpg The New Classics - Chris Duffy http://www.bensnuffywright.com/new-glass-review-38 daily 0.75 2021-01-20 https://static1.squarespace.com/static/51bdef25e4b0b873de10e6ef/t/60079ce527177f508804ddf7/1611111940127/Screen+Shot+2021-01-19+at+9.59.51+PM.png New Glass Review 38 - Juror Statement New Glass Review… New… Glass… Review… At first it seems an obvious and direct title for a document aspiring to present the cream atop today’s broth. But a more literal reading reveals the underlying contradiction. How do you present the best of the future while gazing backwards? As in our title, is Glass somehow stuck in the middle, bracketed by an instinctive fetish for discovery and a nostalgic respect of family traditions? Where does “good” lie when artists are coming to the medium with so many contradictory intentions? Put more positively, can the studio glass movement stride forward into a new, as yet unimagined, reality while still drawing strength from its roots in centuries of material investigation and accumulated wisdom? Judging by the view, afforded by this unique curatorial experience, my answer is: absolutely yes. I was inspired to find that the structural seeds planted by our glass ancestors have ripened into a field that encompasses an extreme depth and breadth of enquiry, full of work that confused, irritated and moved me. The concept of quality is increasingly a moving target, but from what I have seen, the perceived crisis of our field is nothing more then the growing pains of a generation as we slowly realize that we must now build evolved systems to support the promise of our future growth. There is no shortage of talent. Along with my fellow jurors, I tried to wade through the submissions in a fair and deliberate way. Many considerations came to bear on our far ranging discussions, not the least of which, is that this is a print publication which unfortunately favors certain work and documentation styles. I personally attempted to take as intuitive an approach as possible. I registered exceptional reaction in any direction as a positive and advocated for that work regardless of, or at times because of, its formal aesthetics. A month removed, I am reviewing my selections on the kitchen table and a few characteristics emerge that my subconscious clearly registered as intriguing outliers when sequestered in the sensory withdrawal of that dark room in December. In many of the entries, I was drawn to a directness of approach and material misuse that I strive for in my own practice. The brutal, pseudo organic, architecture of Simone Fetzer’s new work aggressively seizes possession of space while Eli Hansen’s day-glo cook house contraptions arrive at sinister via more seductive routes but each possess the vital immediacy of artists trying furiously to keep pace with their inner voices. Intelligent use of humor and clever innuendo are a short cut to this juror’s full attention. Wearing many masks, from Mike Hernandez’s dirty drip of a composition to Megan Stelljes suggestive banana bros, funny and suggestive work repeatedly showed the ability of laughs to circumnavigate audiences’ most stubborn filters. Out of an abundance of exceptional character driven art submitted, the fantastically hapless creatures inhabiting Tom Moore’s peculiar planet and the over the top obnoxiousness of Kim Thomas’s crunchy trio of twerps float to the top by invoking the wacky wonder of Pee Wee’s Playhouse and Tim Burton at his best. Defying the flat page, endearing characters also popped up in several entries that managed to overcome the documentation obstacles inherent in translating dynamic live and video performances into still photos. I was lucky to have previously viewed videos of the adventures of Stanislav Muller’s superheroic Mirror Man, but his submitted still somehow perfectly encapsulates this humble, hilarious and profound work and is stunning in its own right. Likewise, a very strong graphic from the collaborative group, “Flock the Optic” hints at the group’s avian obsessions and their creative interplay between craft, performance and emergent technologies without portraying the full multimedia massage of the senses that awaits their once and future audiences. It is encouraging to see an enormous amount of experimentation combining glass with “new” media approaches from video and sound works to microcontroller driven, responsive sculpture. I did my best to resist my moth-like attraction to blinky lights and hold this charismatic, but all too often conceptually void, work to the same standards of originality and true innovation. For me, the Art itself had to be more compelling then the machines, sensors, programs, leds or glass making the magic happen. The work that most successfully superseded its components was often the result of collaborations amongst exceptional artists and technicians from a range of backgrounds that bridge the digital craft divide. While in Residence at Pilchuck Glass School, David Stout and Corey Metcalf, known as Noisefold, worked with glass artists Jason Christian and Daryl Smith to make a series of illuminated forms visualizing aspects of mined atmospheric sound. These objects will, no doubt, permutate through their work in the physical, digital and now virtual worlds that they create. A similar venture teamed up sculptors Ami McNeel and Mark Zirpel with multi-media artist Sam Stubblefield for a long-term residency at MadArt in Seattle. The resulting sonic and visual playground fed data from poetic sources through monumental kinetic mechanisms, laser light shows and instruments of medieval wonder and space age delight. These fruitful partnerships show a pathway to unlock the true potential of these new tech tools in the hands of non-linear artists and flexible designers. Above all, my selections show a clear underlying affection for the absurd. It is in this realm that artists can most effectively plant conceptual seeds and nourish the growth of new thought. Whether it's the schoolboy charm of Erwin Wurm’s water bottle boy or the haunting humanity of the bald spot atop Dagmara Bielecka’s “Organica” these pieces challenge logic with their existence and win. Nate Riccutto’s pimped up psychedelic man-trike and spaced out survivalist installations lead the viewer down a wormhole of sci-fi aesthetic and narrative non sequitur. Their initial oddness is magnetic and upon engagement one finds oneself within a conceptually airy atmosphere that allows us to choose our own adventure through a glorious jumble of half implied storylines. So those are a few of my favorite things. I tried with my juror selections to highlight artists who echo these same attributes and share with you a few of the many next level thinkers and makers that I have had the honor of crossing paths with in this magical career. Although sporting widely varied backgrounds, and digging in different fields of inquiry, I feel they have all brought something new and good to glass. I will end by saying thank you to Susie and Corning for this once in a lifetime experience, to my fellow jurors for a delightful collaboration and to all the applicants in the book and out for taking the time to invest yourself deeply in making meaningful objects, events and atmospheres. The world needs your efforts, now more then ever… https://static1.squarespace.com/static/51bdef25e4b0b873de10e6ef/t/60079bec71d0856f046db78f/1611111419526/ngr+header.jpg New Glass Review 38