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Category Archives: Glass

shelley muzylowski allen’s glass menagerie grows

Since 2007 I have come back again and again to Shelly Muzylowski Allen’s glass menagerie. She continues to add animals and I continue to be under her spell.

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 Torro Basso

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Torro Basso, detail

“Animals have played an all-pervasive role in the history of human kind, and have been observed, depicted, interpreted, utilized, and imbued with cultural and psychological inferences. We attach to them our superstition and ideology and can associate them with mythology and even divinity. My work is a meditation on these archetypical animal forms who have had presence throughout human history and can embody the basic needs of the human psyche.”

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Epilogue to St. Marks
 Muzylowski, who began her art career as a painter, puts her painting skills to good use by enhancing the glass sculptures with paintings, often adding rusted metal and hair to the detailed animals.

 

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Bull

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Destrier Gilded

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Camel

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Zebra Cocoa

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CanTankeres

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“The hot glass process inspires a rhythm that parallels the rhythm of life, and requires me to work intuitively. I sculpt instinctively and try to remain candid in my portrayal of the subject and to the significance of the act of creating its image.”

Shelly Muzylowski Allen’s website. Read previous posts about the artist here (her signature horses) and here (elephants!).

 

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mikyoung jung explores the spaces we all share

A world traveler and lifelong student, Mikyoung Jung migrated from South Korea to Canada, England and Australia to pursue an education in art. Currently working on a PhD in visual arts at Sydney College of the Art, she also maintains a growing body of work that is interesting and thought provoking.

 

[click on images to enlarge. . .so lovely]

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Jung combines kiln-formed glass with metal and other materials. The sandblasted glass shapes often frame a scene made from cut out metal pieces – birds, buildings, trees, people. Clever storytelling. . .

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“Metal and glass on the surface seem to be incongruous and in opposition, which is similar to our mental construct of eastern and western culture. However, the fusion of these two elements creates new spaces for discourse and allows me to catalogue and articulate my emotions and encountered visual experiences acquired while traveling, which for me is a continual migration.”

 

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“In my artwork, I explore the spaces with which we all share and this fusion of distinct elements is a metaphor for my own life – the old world and the new, east and west, citizen versus outsider.”

Mikyoung Jung’s website 

markow and norris’ woven glass kimonos

They’ve come a long way since we looked at them in 2006.

Known then primarily for their woven bowls, Eric Markow & Thom Norris are credited with developing the glass weaving technique.

They are currently working on a series of four life-size kimonos representing the four seasons during different times of the day. Each woven glass kimono stands at more than 5 feet tall with an arm span of 4.5 feet. Pictured here are the first two kimonos – Spring and Summer are scheduled to be completed this year.

 

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 Autumn Sunset, front

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Autumn Sunset, back

Autumn Sunset is made up of 19 separate pieces of woven glass supported by a metal mannequin. The kimono weights 125 pounds and is the largest woven glass sculpture in the world.

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Winter Twilight Kimono, front

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Winter Twilight Kimono, back

 

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 Red Dragonflies installed in exhibition space

 

The video above shows their current body of work installed in and exhibition.

 

More videos about this dynamic duo and their work here

Markow & Norris website

 

 

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