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INVITATIONAL GLASS EXHIBIT & ERNESTO SANCHEZ PRESS RELEASE |
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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
May 1, 2008
Contact:
Joy Reed Belt
405/842-6336
DrBelt@aol.com
INVITATIONAL GLASS EXHIBIT AND ERNESTO SANCHEZ PAINTINGS AT JRB ART
OKLAHOMA CITY, Okla. – Glass art by nationally recognized craftsmen and paintings by Oklahoma City artist and Mexico native Ernesto Sanchez will share the bill at JRB Art at The Elms during the month of June. Both exhibits open with a reception from 6-10 p.m. on Friday, June 6, and continue through June 28th at JRB Art at The Elms, 2810 North Walker in Oklahoma City.
Joy Reed Belt, Director of JRB Art at The Elms, was inspired to plan the Invitational Glass Exhibit during her June 2007 trip to Pittsburgh for the Glass Art Society’s annual conference. “We are excited to bring glass art of this caliber to Oklahoma City,” said Belt. “Glass is an exciting medium that lends itself to a variety of treatments. Our exhibit is designed to show outstanding examples of blown, slumped, fused, carved, stained, cast, neon and engraved glass,” she added.
Featured glass artists include:
Eric Ehlenberger
Eric Ehlenberger of New Orleans is a contemporary sculptor working in neon, metal and glass producing luminous sculpture. His interest in neon, metal and glass began with a childhood fascination with prisms, rainbows and colored light. It was exposure to the Impressionists use of color and light to develop mood that triggered his interest in art. The Constructivist movement of the early 20th Century, particularly the works of Tatlin and Malevich, strongly influenced him with regard to structure and form. Subsequent influences include the Abstract Expressionist focus on non-objective interpretation and Asian culture's aesthetic emphasis on the elegance of simplicity and the economy of form.
Martin Kremer
Glass has been a medium of expression for Martin Kremer for more than 25 years. He began as a stained glass enthusiast, but glass art gradually took over, evolving from a hobby to a full-time obsession. Over the years his work has included Japanese-style art glass lamps, elegant jewelry boxes and decorative hanging panels. He has recently concentrated on creating fused glass sculpture, vessels, and bowls of stunning form, color and texture in his Pound Ridge, New York studio. Kremer’s inspiration comes from many sources including fabric patterns, quilts, ethnic patterns, the complexity of warp and weft, as well as 20th century Italian and Swedish blown glass, and traditional Japanese design.
Mark Matthews
Mark Matthews of Archbold, Ohio is notably recognized for his work in glass, especially in glass spheres. Working with only one assistant, each piece is meticulously worked and signed by the artist. Highly collected and valued, Matthews’ work has been published in many books and is held in museums such as the Victoria & Albert Museum in London, England, the Corning Museum of Glass in New York, the Toledo Museum of Art in Ohio and the National Museum of American Art, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C.
Kathleen Mulcahey
Kathleen lives and works in Oakdale, PA with her husband and partner, Ron Desmett. For the past 15 years they have worked as independent artists on projects for installation in private glass collections, homes, corporate offices, public art projects and solo exhibitions throughout the United States. Kathleen and Ron have won many awards including grants from the National Endowment for the Arts, the Pennsylvania Council on the Arts the Mid Atlantic Arts Foundation and the Fulbright Foundation.
Kathleen and Ron imagined, developed and helped to build the Pittsburgh Glass Center, an internationally recognized public access glass institution where they remain a vital part of the Artistic Leadership Team. They have been named Permanent Artists in Residence at the PGC in honor of their outstanding achievements and dedication to the arts. Recently, their collaborative work, Crossings 1982, was acquired by the Renwick Galleries at the Smithsonian Institution of Washington D.C.
David Patchen
David Patchen was born and raised in New York. There he was inspired by many forms of art including music and photography. He was a musician for 20 years and still finds music an inspiration while hand blowing his beautiful glass art works. Patchen has mastered the techniques of incalmo, murrini, cane, acid etching and making technical pieces in the 3-4 foot high range. Pieces of this size utilizing many skilled techniques are mastered only by a small percentage of the glass blowing artists world wide. Since 1996 he has lived in Northern California. His focus now is primarily on creating sophisticated works in glass but also still dabbles with photography.
Jeffrey Phelps
Jeffrey Phelps uses a variety of glass forming techniques to design and produce complex images in his art glass. He works at the furnace, cuts and polishes his work, fuses forms, paints on glass and integrates murrine into his work. Phelps studied Graphic Design at the University of Arizona in the mid-1970's and began cutting stained glass in 1976. He has been a student in the blowing department at the state-of-the-art Pittsburgh Glass Center since it opened in 2001 and an instructor of stained, fused and slumped glass classes since the spring of 2002. Phelps lives in Sewickley, PA.
Randi Solin
Randi Solin, a glass blower of eighteen years whose studio is in Brattleboro, Vermont, brings a rich painterly effect to her glass creations. The dance between the fluidity of molten glass and the rigid form, upon cooling, is kept alive in her creations. Solin incorporates techniques found in both classic Venetian glassblowing and the American Art Glass movement; however, her unique style and coloration process is entirely her own.
“My work is a juxtaposition of weighted organic form and sharp polished edges,” said Solin. “I approach glass like a painter to a canvas; the coloration, vivid and original, is reminiscent of a swatch of fabric. My glass pieces are compositions, and, atypical to glass blowing in general, they have a 'front.' Generally my forms have an Asian influenced simplicity, which allows for my complex coloration process. I build layer upon layer of color using glass in all particle sizes–powder, cane, frit, and rod–like a painter’s palette, to create original homogeneous coloration and truly one-of-a-kind work," she added.
Solin holds a BFA from the New York College of Ceramics, Alfred University, Alfred, NY. Her work has been acquired by the permanent collections of The White House, The United States Embassies in Algeria and Guinea, and has been seen in solo and group shows in galleries and museums across the country. She has received several Best in Show and Best in Glass awards for work exhibited at arts festivals in Connecticut, Florida, Rhode Island, and Vermont. Her expertise in the field of fine craft has earned her a position as juror for the Long's Park Art and Craft Festival in Lancaster, Pennsylvania.
Parallel Universe - Paintings by Ernesto Sanchez
Complimenting the glass exhibit will be paintings by Ernesto Sanchez. Sanchez strives to translate all he experiences from language into his art; believing that one’s perception of and response to the world are created in reference to his or her experiences and emotions. “The translation of words, images and sounds comes to me as a mass of emotions and transform into images,” Sanchez said. “That place is near chaos, forcing the viewer away from convention thinking,” he added.
Utilizing baroque shapes to create his visual translations, color becomes concept, process, system, construction and rhythm in Sanchez’s paintings. His works convey the concept of opposites, cause and effect, as well as memory and emotion, providing the viewer with the possibility to travel deep into the visual labyrinth of their own imagination.
Sanchez currently serves as an associate preparatory and exhibit designer at the Oklahoma City Museum of Art. He completed programs in visual arts and silk screening at Nuevo Leon State University, and art history at the Contemporary Museum of Art (MARCO), all in Monterrey, Nuevo Leon, Mexico. His work has been featured in numerous solo and group shows at venues in the United States and Mexico including the Pharmaka Gallery, Los Angeles, CA; the Convention Center, McAllen, Texas; City Arts Center, Festival of the Arts, Individual Artists of Oklahoma, Oklahoma Visual Artists Coalition, and Untitled Gallery in Oklahoma City; as well as the North East Art Association and Café Infinito in Monterrey, Mexico.
JRB Art at The Elms, the former home of Nan Sheets which was built in 1920, is located at 2810 North Walker and is open Tuesday through Saturday, 10:00 a.m. to 6:00 p.m., and Sunday 1:00-5:00 p.m. The Gallery website is www.jrbartgallery.com, e-mail address is jrb@coxinet.net and phone number is 405/528-6336.
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