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Pack your bags and head to Santa Fe next month! For all the usual reasons—great restaurants, beautiful New Mexico setting, fabulous art—but most especially because internationally reknowned Australian glass artist Kevin Gordon will be present for the opening reception of his new work on Friday, March 13th (lucky Friday), from 5–7 pm at Jane Sauer Gallery on Canyon Road. The exhibition continues through April 10th.
SYSTEMA NATURAE is stunning work, as you can see from the images here. Based on a close study of select marine specimens in the natural science collections of the Western Australian Museum, Gordon has captured the unique and wondrous characteristics of these underwater treasures in a magnificent body of work featuring the intricate, detailed forms of invertebrates such as sea urchins, coral, and shells. Each piece is poetry in glass, sophisticated and technically perfect.
Gordon has exhibited worldwide in solo and group exhibitions and his work is held in many private and public collections, including the Sir Elton John Glass Collection, London; The Mobile Museum, Mobile, Alabama; Australian National Art Gallery Collection, Canberra, Australia; and Australian National Glass Collection Wagga Wagga, NSW, Australia. He has been an eleven-times finalist for the prized Ranamok Glass Awards, has won three People’s Choice awards and many other national prizes.
This is Kevin Gordon’s first solo U.S. show, and Jane Sauer says, “In this body of work, Gordon distills the complex structures he finds in nature, creating his own mathematical repetitions and organic variations. The complexity of each piece demonstrates Gordon’s rare talent to push the capabilities of glass, working skillfully with it both hot and cold, and continuously opening up new thinking and approaches in glass.”
For more information about the exhibit: http://www.jsauergallery.com/
Kevin’s website is at http://www.kevingordon.com/
The creation of beautiful art in the medium of glass is one of the most difficult challenges an artist can aspire to. It is demanding, filled with trial and error, and usually involves a support team. But the results can lift the heart, illuminate a concept, and provide reflection, refraction, and color in a way no other medium does.
The Glass Alliance – New Mexico, founded by Betsy Ehrenberg, is a regional chapter of Art Alliance for Contemporary Glass. Its mission is to gather collectors, artists, gallery owners, and the general public in a coordinated venue to visit artists’ studios, tour galleries, view private collections, and learn about the medium through lectures and demonstrations from both New Mexico master artists and well-known masters from around the United States.
Member artists range from the already established to those just emerging in the field. This post highlights the imaginative, impressive work of three women members: Delinda VanneBrightyn, Elodie Holmes, and Lucy Lyon.
DELINDA VANNEBRIGHTYN creates contemporary figurative and abstract pieces such as “Revealed 2,” from her Consciousness series (see image 1). She works in kiln-cast glass and bronze in her studios in Taos and, as she says, “I aspire to create works that speak of grace and clarity, inspiring deep reflection into the root and beauty of the human spirit.”
ELODIE HOLMES is no novice to the medium, having been blowing glass in Santa Fe for some 25 years. Her pieces are described as events “frozen in time.” As can be seen in the pieces to the left, each incorporates a luminous blending of color, transparency, and radiance (see image 2). Her studio/gallery, Liquid Light Glass, is located in the Baca Street Art District.
LUCY LYON is the mistress of figurative, gestural cast-glass pieces that capture the beauty and line of the most essential elements of the human form (see image 3). Each piece suggests a narrative, a story behind the glass, or, as the artist might express it, “a state of mind.” Lucy lives and works in Jaconita and her work is nationally known.
These three accomplished artists are only a small sampling of the talent and accomplishments to be found among Glass Alliance – New Mexico’s members. Check out their website, surf around to see the work of other artists, and DO sign up for upcoming events. The alliance will be an active participant in SOFA – Santa Fe to be held June 11–14, 2009.-- Rosemary Carstens
Pack your bags and head to Santa Fe next month! For all the usual reasons—great restaurants, beautiful New Mexico setting, fabulous art—but most especially because internationally reknowned Australian glass artist Kevin Gordon will be present for the opening reception of his new work on Friday, March 13th (lucky Friday), from 5–7 pm at Jane Sauer Gallery on Canyon Road. The exhibition continues through April 10th.
Gordon has exhibited worldwide in solo and group exhibitions and his work is held in many private and public collections, including the Sir Elton John Glass Collection, London; The Mobile Museum, Mobile, Alabama; Australian National Art Gallery Collection, Canberra, Australia; and Australian National Glass Collection Wagga Wagga, NSW, Australia. He has been an eleven-times finalist for the prized Ranamok Glass Awards, has won three People’s Choice awards and many other national prizes.
This is Kevin Gordon’s first solo U.S. show, and Jane Sauer says, “In this body of work, Gordon distills the complex structures he finds in nature, creating his own mathematical repetitions and organic variations. The complexity of each piece demonstrates Gordon’s rare talent to push the capabilities of glass, working skillfully with it both hot and cold, and continuously opening up new thinking and approaches in glass.”
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