Episode 15: Meet the Artists: Jiri Harcuba and April Surgent

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Jiri Harcuba, a renowned artist and educator is known for his simple, yet elegant, portraits in glass. He treats all his subjects in a similar fashion, using spare sculptural cuts and subtle optical effects to create their individual profiles. His student and emerging artist, April Surgent, takes a photographic and painterly approach to engraving, using her own photography –many of urban environments – as her image sources. After fusing sheets of glass, she “develops” the images by grinding the glass to reveal the neutral and colorful underlayers.

Episode 14: Meet the Artist: Dante Marioni

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Dante Marioni’s sophisticated and boldly colored contemporary vessels are inspired by ancient Greek and Etruscan forms that reflect the rich history of classical Mediterranean pottery and bronzes. The son of studio glass pioneer Paul Marioni, Dante learned traditional Venetian glassblowing techniques from some of the greatest masters in contemporary glass. He began blowing glass at the age of 19, and presented  his first solo gallery show, in Seattle, four years later. Since the strong start of his career, Marioni has garnered international recognition and acclaim for his elegant and inventive work in glass.

Episode 13: Meet the Artist: Michael Rogers

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This Meet the Artist lecture by Michael Rogers was recorded on March 29, 2007. Michael Rogers combines glass and found objects in his symbolically-charged work. There is a strong literary character to his vessels and sculpture, which are often covered in writing. The words are sometimes quotes from authors who are an inspiration to Rogers, such as James Joyce and Vladimir Nabokov, or they are anonymous, such as the characters on the fragments of Japanese newspaper that enshroud Rogers’ 13 Crows. Rogers is currently a Professor in the Glass Program of the College of Imaging Arts and Sciences at the Rochester Institute of Technology.

Episode 12: Meet the Artist: Beth Lipman

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This Meet the Artist lecture by Beth Lipman was recorded on June 11, 2007. Lipman creates hand-sculpted still lifes in glass, which most often take the form of sumptuous foods and/or fragile tablewares arranged on a base, in a frame, and later, on tables and other furnishings. Her works explore ideas about the immortalization of ephemeral things, such as perishable produce, brittle vessels, or personal memories. Her work is inspired by 17th-century Dutch still-life painting in which the presentation of beautifully composed game, fish, cheeses, shellfish, fruits, and vegetables is symbolic of the passing of time, mortality, and the transience of earthly achievements. Note: the audio quality of this videocast improves after the first 5 minutes.

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Episode 11: Meet the Artist: Isabel De Obaldía

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In this podcast, the 2009 Rakow Commission recipient, Panamanian artist Isabel De Obaldía, discusses her work in painting and in glass, including the Corning Museum’s new sculpture, Rey del Cenote. De Obaldía’s paintings and sculptures incorporate symbols and ideas from ancient Panamanian, Colombian, and Costa Rican art.

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Episode 10: Meet the Artist: Kristina Logan

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Kristina Logan is internationally recognized for her precisely patterned and delicate glass beads, which she combines with metalwork to create both jewelry and functional objects. A committed educator, Logan travels extensively, teaching workshops and lecturing on contemporary glass beads and jewelry.

Episode 9: Meet the Artist: Zora Palová

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Artist and 2008 Rakow Commission recipient Zora Palová presented a lecture about her work in October, 2009. Palová lives and works in Bratislava, Slovakia, where she creates large-scale cast glass sculpture with her husband, the glass sculptor Štěpán Pala. Palová's use of the material is gestural, emotional, and grounded in the natural world. She works with light, which she modulates in glass with rough textures and translucent colors. Her Rakow Commission piece, "North Sea Waves," inspired by the waters of the North Sea, is on display in the Museum's Contemporary Glass Gallery. 

Episode 8: Meet the Artist: Tom Patti

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Tom Patti is a widely respected artist who has devoted much of his career to researching different formulations of glasses and hot-forming techniques and to exploring industrial and architectural glass as a sculptural medium. Over the last 35 years, he has used glass to build and define spaces that transform surface, light, and color. In recent years, Patti has dramatically shifted the scale of his work from complex, small-scale objects to illusionistic environments made of architectural glass.

Episode 7: Meet the Artist: Kait Rhoads and Amy Rueffert

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Kait Rhoads and Amy Rueffert represent a younger generation of artists who are working with glass in new ways. Rhoads, who innovatively and skillfully interprets traditional Italian techniques of murrine and filigrana in her vessels and wall panels, also makes "soft sculpture" out of cut glass elements assembled with metal wire. Amy Rueffert makes stylishly retro vessels and sculpture that often utilize vintage decals, and she has also worked with glass in photography. Both artists are represented in the Museum’s permanent collection.
 

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Episode 6: Meet the Artist: Karen LaMonte

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Karen LaMonte's monumental sculptures in cast glass, and her smaller cast glass reliefs and mirrors, have received international attention.  This lecture focuses on LaMonte's creation of the Museum's major sculpture, Evening Dress with Shawl, made in 2004.

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Episode 5: Meet the Artist: Joel Philip Myers and Steven I. Weinberg

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“Masters of Studio Glass: Joel Philip Myers and Steven I. Weinberg” was the first in a series of focus exhibitions celebrating the diverse work of contemporary studio glass artists.  It examined the careers of two well-respected artists who work in glassblowing and glass casting.  While Myers explores vibrant color in his painterly, blown vessels, Weinberg focuses on the optical qualities of the material, creating molded structures inside his often colorless sculptures.

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Episode 4: Meet the Artist: Debora Moore and Benjamin Moore - November 30, 2007

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Debora Moore, recipient of the Museum’s 2007 Rakow Commission, has worked with glass since the late 1980s and is best known for her complex studies of orchids, orchid trees and bamboo shoots. Debora’s husband, Benjamin Moore, is a studio glass pioneer, who has had an influential career as a teacher, designer, and master glass blower.

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Episode 3: Meet the Artist: Marvin Lipofsky - July 25, 2007 

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Marvin Lipofsky, one of the pioneers of the American Studio Glass Movement, has promoted, developed, and taught the medium of blown glass as a material for sculpture since the early 1960s. Lipofsky's non-objective vessels break apart and rearrange the blown glass mass while retaining the breathy, ephemeral quality that is one of the material's most intriguing characteristics.

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Episode 2: Meet the Artist: Lino Tagliapietra - May 15, 2007 

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Lino Tagliapietra is a master and teacher of traditional Venetian glassmaking techniques, and an artist who has helped shape the world of contemporary studio glass. He creates work known for its exceptional complexity, elegance, and visual poetry. In this podcast, Tagliapietra talks about blowing glass in Murano, the artists who influenced him, his perceptions of contemporary glass in the United States, and his personal experience moving from design to creating unique works.

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Episode 1: Meet the Artist: Toots Zynsky - April 17, 2007 

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Toots Zynsky builds amorphous, glass vessels that defy categorization, her objects inhabiting a region where painting, sculpture, and the decorative arts meet. In this interview, Zynsky discusses the early days of the American studio glass movement when she was a student of Dale Chihuly’s at the Rhode Island School of Design and at Pilchuck Glass School. Zynsky also gives insight into her ideas about color and technique and the inspiration and insight she’s gained from her extensive travels.

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