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Morgan Contemporary Glass Gallery

xpertease

June 4 - August 28

The show features savvy new work by Eoin Breadon, Jiyong Lee, Jeremy Lepisto, Jay Macdonell, Robert Mickelsen, John Miller, Mielle Riggie plus husband and wife artists Boyd Sugiki & Lisa Zerkowitz. Many of the artists featured in the exhibition will be teaching Summer Intensive Classes at the Pittsburgh Glass Center.

Xpertease opens June 4 and continues thru August 28 at morgan contemporary glass gallery located at 5833 Ellsworth Ave, Pittsburgh PA. 15232.

Visit Morgan Contemporary Glass web site for more details

Spinning Plates Gallery

The Grove Cycle

September 10 - 30, 2010

New work by Jason Forck.
Opening: Sept. 10 from 6 to 9pm
Location: Spinning Plates Gallery is located at 5720 Friendship Avenue in Pittsburgh. Gallery open by appointment. 412-320-0893.

Borelli Edwards Gallery

New Works by Kathleen Mulcahy and Ron Desmett GLASS: A Decade and Change

October 16 - December 31, 2010

Borelli Edwards Gallery, located in the heart of the Lawrenceville section of Pittsburgh, presents GLASS: A Decade and Change, new works in glass and mixed media by Kathleen Mulcahy and Ron Desmett, co-founders of the Pittsburgh Glass Center, well known for their breadth of work from blown glass forms to monumental steel sculptures. Kathleen and Ron have created an exhibition that weaves their unique voices, and celebrates the 10th anniversary of this world-class art center. They were persistent in their dedication to create their dream for Pittsburgh, continually developing new work while steadily shepherding the Center to fruition. Though 10 years from the first gala, it actually took over 10 years before its opening to develop, envision and fundraise. One can say it spanned a decade and change.

Ron’s Lidded Trunk Vessels, recently acquired by the Corning Museum of Glass and the Smithsonian, are dark, highly charged matt forms. Their shape is borrowed from ancient urns and has a new twist, where hot glass yields to the texture of the inner tree surface and their softness at times seems to appear as a torso or a shoulder. Kristina Olson writes of these, “They do not transport the viewer elsewhere, tell a story, nor represent something else. It is expressly because the mind can’t square its preconceptions of what constitutes a work of art with what the eyes are seeing that one is brought back ‘unceasingly’ to these sculptures.”

On Mulcahy’s work, Kristina Olson writes, “They often imitate the look of liquid elements in nature drawn out by gravity. But there is nothing of nature’s seemingly random complexity in these compositions. Instead, Mulcahy simplifies the irregularity of organic shapes to create beautifully controlled blown and flame-worked arrangements…[in the work Tidal] One not only sees, but feels the slow drip of the glass in its once molten state.”

Find more information on Kathleen Mulcahy's website.

Visit the Borelli Edwards Gallery Website

11 Stanwix Lobby

Rivers of Glass: Diminuendo & Crescendo in Blue

Pittsburgh's first all glass public art installation is located at 11 Stanwix Street, downtown Pittsburgh. Glass artists Dan Spitzer and Jill Reynolds designed and produced the permanent glass lighting installation for the lobby of 11 Stanwix, a historic 1960s-era high-modernist office tower in downtown Pittsburgh. Their creation depicts Pittsburgh's three rivers using nearly 1,500 blown glass globes - created in the shape of water droplets. The breath taking installation is not to be missed. The project was sponsored by RexxHall Realty, LLC; EDGE Studio and Pittsburgh Glass Center.
Open to the public Monday through Friday 9am - 5pm

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