SOFA CHICAGO From
Technique to Artistic Expression
The critically acclaimed international art fair SOFACHICAGO returns to historic Navy Pier Friday, Nov 2 through Sunday, Nov 4,
2012, with an Opening Night Preview on Thursday, Nov 1. The exhibition features masterworks of
contemporary and modern arts and design, sculpture, functional art, and
visionary art, plus related special exhibitions and lecture series. SOFA CHICAGO promises to be the world
hot spot for international studio glass art. The American Studio Glass Movement
is celebrating its 50th Anniversary this year and the acclaimed art and design
fair at Navy Pier will be center-stage. New this
year, iPhone and iPad users can use the free SOFA FAIR App to browse the works
on display at the show and identify works or contact galleries, simply by
pointing their phone at artworks and adding them or instantly receiving
information about that work. To download the SOFA FAIR App visit sofaexpo.com.
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| Harvey Littleton,
Yellow Crown II, 1984, glass
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From the SOFA
CHICAGO 2012 website: Art “dealer Maurine Littleton of Maurine LittletonGallery (Washington, D.C.), daughter of Harvey Littleton reports
that half her booth space (#408) will feature “a selection of rarely seen (and
first-time offered) pieces” by her father, including a “spectacular example”
from his signature Arc series entitled Yellow Crown II (1984),
direct from its exhibition at the Chazen Museum of Art in Madison, Wis.
Littleton says it is the only one of its type still available; similar works
can be found at the Smithsonian’s Renwick Gallery of the American Art Museum
and in major national public and private art collections.”
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| Michael Janis, Eclipse, 2012, glass powder imagery |
Works by Michael Janis and Allegra Marquart will be amongst
the artists featured in the other half.
Tim Tate will be featured in Habatat
Galleries space (#1200) – which has expanded their SOFA booth to accommodate 18
solo exhibitions!
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| Allegra Marquart, Monkey Girl, 2012, glass |
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| Tim Tate,
The Deconstruction Of George Melies,2012, Cast and Blown Glass, Video
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Additionally, the
Robert M. Minkoff Foundation will screen their new documentary, The Toledo
Workshop Revisited, 1962-2012. In a March 2012 residency, three young
artists at the Toledo Museum of Art rebuilt a small glass furnace modeled after
the one Harvey Littleton and Dominick Labino designed 50 years earlier.
The
1962 workshop launched the Studio Glass Movement, and made it possible for
individual artists to work directly with glass. This new film documents the
week-long residency that honors the past and celebrates the future of creative
experimentation in glass. Screenings will be followed by Q&A with Robert
Minkoff, Managing Trustee of the Robert M. Minkoff Foundation; Andrew Page, Director
of the Robert M. Minkoff Foundation.
SOFA Chicago 2012
Nov 1 - 4, 2012
Festival Hall, Navy Pier
Nov 1 - 4, 2012
Festival Hall, Navy Pier
600 E. Grand Ave., Chicago, IL 60611
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