Well, yes, but Tim's feeling much better...Playing With Fire @ NY MAD Museum
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Tim Tate, “I Want To Run Away and Join the Circus", 2009, blown and cast glass, electronic components. Photo: Anything Photographic.
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This year, New York's Museum of Arts and Design (MAD) celebrates
the 50th anniversary of the American Studio Glass movement with
an exhibit titled "Playing with Fire: 50 Years of Contemporary Glass" - which featured more than
100 works of glass from the MAD collection, and
additional contemporary works on loan.
Ever since 1962, when a legendary workshop led by renowned glass artist
Harvey Littleton demonstrated the potential of glassblowing as a medium
available to individual artists, artists and designers have continually pushed
the material in new directions and used the complex, fragile, and highly
versatile nature of the material to create an astonishing diversity of works.
"Playing
with Fire" looks at the breadth of innovative processes and artistry in
contemporary glass, from pieces by early adaptors such as Dale Chihuly to
installations by Israeli designer Ayala Serfaty. The exhibit is organized by
the Museum of Arts and Design and is curated by
Jennifer Scanlan, Associate Curator. “As a sculptural material, glass has
unique properties: its ability to hold, emit and reflect light renders color
more brilliant and animates figures and forms,”says Jennifer Scanlan. “In ‘Playing
With Fire,’ we wanted to show how artists and designers play with the
properties of this fluid medium — often in extraordinary, and sometimes
unexpected ways.”
The
exhibition is made possible, in part, by the Art Alliance for Contemporary
Glass.
Playing
with Fire: 50 Years of Contemporary Glass.
November
6, 2012 thru April 7, 2013
Museum of
Arts & Design
2 Columbus Circle
New York, NY
10019
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