You are cordially invited to the opening reception
Cold+Hot 2007
a group exhibition of glass sculpture.
Opening reception is July 20 from 5 to 8 pm.
Represented artists are Ned Cantrell, Martin Janecky, Mitch LaPlante, Lee
Miltier, Ivan Lee Mora, Heather Palmer, Stig Persson, David Ruth, Lucas Salton, Rob
Tribble and Kim Webster.
Exhibition is from July 20 - August 31, 2007
Cold+Hot 2007 is a glass sculpture exhibition in the main gallery featuring emerging and established glass artists who explore the sculptural limits of cold and hot glass. For the first time, we will show selected sculptures
from Mitch LaPlante and Kim Webster's stunning explorations of the plant world. Sculptors Ned Cantrell, Martin Janecky, Lee Miltier, Ivan Lee Mora, Heather Palmer, Stig Persson, David Ruth, Lucas Salton and Rob Tribble are also featured. The exhibition introduces an international perspective with artists hailing from California, Australia, Canada, the Czech Republic, Denmark, and the UK. Our interior gallery provides a sampling of California painters new to the gallery including Jenna North, Sabina Sule, Phillip Hua, Tobias Tovera and Sachio Yamashita.
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Stig Persson: Statement
Stig
Persson�s latest work represents a break away from the large-scale
pieces, which he has in recent years been producing. Persson continues
to work with the monumentality and strength of glass. His style is
almost minimalist in its fascination with strict geometric forms and
two-dimensional, almost graphic profiles. He draws inspiration from a
wide variety of visual elements: clashes of materials, the graphic
structure of an advertisement for wood preservative, a magazine turned
upside-down, a building-site lamp, etc. Common to all of these is the
form which is the driving force, and the exploration of that form
through a theme that is examined in depth. Persson�s oeuvre consists
mainly of a series of work in which he tests how far an idea can be
taken within a clearly defined framework. This results in modules and
variations on basic forms, which can be put together in a constant
succession of new combinations. These are all individual pieces, but
they are also forms which can be slotted into larger arrangements, and
create a new work. Thus, Persson works within a formal idiom that is a
far cry from the expressiveness and essential interpretational nature
that matters so much to other artists.
Stig
Persson does not set out to emphasize the beauty engendered by the
light-reflecting properties of glass, or the sophisticated, technical
perfection with which one can control the material. His is a much more
pragmatic approach: an insistence on the physical qualities of the
glass, when the artistic devices are kept on a tight, formal rein and
two-dimensional forms are converted into three-dimensional images. It
takes an assiduous eye to detect where an element inspired by nature or
personal motivation has, nonetheless managed to sneak its way in - in
colours. Sky and sea: an air of Nordic melancholy forming the balance
between a purely formal and an emotional approach.
- Louise Mazanti, PhD, Art Historian, Designskole, Copenhagen
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