Sentences with phrase «murano glass works»

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And Murano glass sculptures, chandeliers and lattice work gracing mirrored walls add shimmering pizzaz here, there and everywhere throughout the ship's public areas.

With works at the Philadelphia Museum of Art, Art Museum of Greater Lafayette, Murano Collection, and private collections and galleries around the world, Silk's glass sculpture enjoys a wide audience.

Featuring 50 works, «Maryland to Murano» is the first exhibition to pair the beaded neckpieces and wall hangings Scott constructs in her Baltimore studio — her foundational work — with the blown glass sculptures she has created over the past five years in Murano, Italy.

JOYCE C. SCOTT «Maryland to Murano» Neckpieces and Sculptures by Joyce J. Scott Museum of Arts and Design, New York Sept. 30, 2014 to March 22, 2015 Joyce C. Scott's exquisitely rendered bead and glass works are steeped in provocative narratives and sociopolitical commentary about racism and sexism.

His later works, such as plaster pianos, blue Murano glass musical instruments and bronze and ceramic turtles, achieve a perfect equilibrium between conceptual conviction and aesthetic concerns, and also reflect a real pleasure of making.

Through glass works designed and fabricated in Murano and the Seattle area, as well as in paintings, sculpture, prints, and video, Wilson challenges assumptions about history, culture, and display practices, offering alternative interpretations and encouraging viewers to reconsider how they think and what they know.

He is currently involved in the creation of the first Italian museum devoted to contemporary art made of glass, the Berengo Center for Contemporary Art and Glass, based in Murano, which boasts one of the most important collection of works made of glass by international artglass, the Berengo Center for Contemporary Art and Glass, based in Murano, which boasts one of the most important collection of works made of glass by international artGlass, based in Murano, which boasts one of the most important collection of works made of glass by international artglass by international artists.

Working in collaboration with Venetian glassmakers, he began producing ornate mirrors and eighteenth - century style chandeliers, using black Murano glass in a radical departure from traditional Rococo colors.

Following his studies, the artist won a Fulbright Fellowship to travel and work in Europe where he studied glass blowing in Murano, Italy.

His work can be found in collections in Bavaria, Denmark, Austria, and Japan, the Venini Collection in Murano, Italy, the Corning Museum of Glass, Corning, New York, the American Craft Museum, New York, the High Museum of Art in Atlanta, and the Chrysler Museum.

Wilson's first work in Venetian glass — a large - scale black Murano glass chandelier (Speak of Me as I Am: Chandelier Mori, 2003) was installed in the vaulted central entrance of the American pavilion during his solo exhibition at the 50th Venice Biennale.

Wilson worked with Venetian craftsmen to develop an innovative process for layering traditional Murano glass mirrors together and also conceived of a technique that reversed the centuries - old mirror making tradition — etching and painting the verso black rather than silver — in order to lend a ghostly appearance to the reflection that the mirror casts.

Works comprised of drips of Murano black glass will also be installed in the gallery, appearing to seep out of the gallery walls.

Maryland to Murano: Neckpieces and Sculptures by Joyce J. Scott @ Museum of Arts and Design Sept. 30, 2014 — March 15, 2015 Joyce J. Scott's exquisitely rendered bead and glass works are steeped in provocative narratives and sociopolitical commentary about racism and sexism.

Since its debut as a collateral event of the Venice Biennale in 2009, Glasstress has revived the traditional craft of Murano glassblowing by forging new alliances with internationally renowned artists and designers and has since become an unparalleled platform showcasing ground - breaking new works in glass.

Many participating artists have never used glass before, but all come to the workshop to work with master craftspeople like Berengo and other Murano glassmaking colleagues.

A work table displays a collection of Murano glass bits and woodcarving tools.

Having worked with seven Murano glass masters, Harvest draws parallels between the fragility of two communities affected by encroaching urbanism and growing industrial economies — the honeybees and the Murano glass - making families.

This solo exhibition entitled, Cross-Pollination: Honeybees and Murano Glass, will feature a series of works previously exhibited at the Venice Biennale.

2013 saw several glass works made in Murano as part of a «floating series», all pieces were acquired by a private collection.

Her debut at the gallery centers on Structural Psychodramas # 2, an installation of small Murano glass sculptures, as well as two of the artist's monumental disaster paintings and large - scale, provocative neon works, one of which reads «NO MORE MASTURBATION.»

This exhibition includes examples from his «Oli» series (1960), from his «Pietre» series (1952) with affixed Murano glass fragments, a painting made of copper from his «Metali» series, as well as several «Tagli», or slashed canvas works.

More recently, she has been making wall hangings, experimenting with Murano glass, and working on an outdoor installation that pays tribute to Harriet Tubman.

Among them, White Cube is showing a selection of work by Cerith Wyn Evans, including the debut of a new installation titled Mantra (2016), which sees the light from two Murano glass chandeliers choreographed to a score by the artist; Kayne Griffin Corcoran is putting minimalists Mary Corse and James Turrell in conversation; and Pace will present a monumental levitating block of concrete by Studio Drift in its otherwise bare booth.

While working in Italy in the 1950s, she devised a «Kiln Fusing» technique that joined Murano glass with copper, resulting in twisted and transparent forms she dubbed Fusions.

Venetian glass artist, Lino Tagliapietra was born in Murano in 1934 and, when little more than a boy, was sent to work in the island's glass factories.

Ai Weiwei and Jake and Dinos Chapman are among the celebrated artists who were invited to make new works out of Murano glass for the fifth instalment of Glasstress.

Vintage custom - made white and gold leaf Murano glass lamps, high quality of the glass circles, worked with a lace decor blown and crafted with crystallized effect, on brass supports wit...

«There are lots of crazy colors, patterns, and Murano glass, and they all somehow work together.