in progress

Engraved turquoise flash.  About 16" tall.  Tentative Title "Mad Meg" after Breughel's painting.

Ashes to Ashes

ASHES TO ASHES: LIFE AND DEATH IN CONTEMPORARY ART
April 24-August 23, 2009

Ashes to Ashes: Life and Death in Contemporary Glass is a thematic, conceptual group exhibition which exposes the public to some of the best established and emerging glass artists in the field today. The exhibition explores issues of morality, spirituality, rejuvenation and resurrection through various tropes and processes. The diverse sampling of works brings the following artists together within one space: Kiki Smith, Judith Schaechter, Marc Petrovic, Dafna Kaffeman, Sybille Peretti, Mark Zirpel, Frida Fjellman, Karen Willenbrink-Johnson/Jasen Johnson, Jane Rosin, Tim Tate and Beth Lipman.

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on the light table

One: The demo posted some time ago.  Still pending.... (along with the Cold Genius albatross debacle)

The second image:  two redheads I started the other day.  (the lefterly one is a revisit of a head used in a piece called "Mother and Child"--its one damn difficult image to translate from drawing to glass for some reason...)

Third down: Another version of the crouching figure from the last post (which was a study--a small piece intended to lead to something more "grand" at some point). I've had many version of that crouching figure in my sketch files--this new one is the original version with her arms raised in the manner of one responding to one hell of a migraine....in fact the file is called "migraine halo".
Finally: The blue engraving is "Mad Meg".  This is a Saint-Just turqoisey blue flash that just begs to be engraved.

new piece

untitled...more than a study but a real small one...16" x 21". Glass paint, silverstain.
Originally, the crouching figure was to be chopped up and used as scraps in "Self Portrait of Someone Else" but I couldn't bring myself to do that (and I had enough material already anyway).