NEWS 2010
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Herb Jackson announces upcoming
solo exhibitions
(8/18/10) Dates have been
set for the openings of three major exhibitions for Herb Jackson. On
Saturday, October 2 Christa Faut Gallery in Cornelius, North Carolina will open
an exhibition of Jackson's new paintings. On Thursday, February 17, Claire
Oliver Gallery in New York City will open a show of Jackson's new work. On
Thursday March 10 Davidson College will present a historical overview of
Jackson's work to commemorate his teaching career at the school. Nineteen
paintings spanning 50 years of the artist's artistic output will be
featured in the college's William H. Van Every Gallery.
Confluence: The Art of
the Digital Atelier at the Pearson Lake Art Center
(7/7/10) The works of Karin
Schminke, Bonnie Lahotka and Dorothy Simpson Krause will be on exhibit
July 22through November 6, 2010 in the Monty Pearson Gallery of the
Pearson Lake Art Center in Lake Okoboji, Iowa. There will be an opening
on Thursday, July 22 from 5 to 7 p.m. and a reception on Friday, July 23
from 5 to 7 p.m. Karin Schminke will be in attendance at both events.
Thomas S. Buechner, 1926-2010
(6/25/10)
Artist and former museum director Thomas Buechner died at his home in
Corning, New York on June 13. He was 83 years old. Born in New
York City in 1926, Buechner's education was taken at Princeton
University, The Art Students League in New York and the Ecole des Beaux
Arts in Paris. He also studied Old Master painting techniques in
Amsterdam. In his later life he was known for his beautifully rendered
portrait, still life and landscape paintings. Buechner was also a
respected museum professional. He served as the first director of the
Corning Museum of Glass (1951-1960), and went on to direct the Brooklyn
Museum of Art (1961-1971). He then returned to Corning, New York, where
he was president of the Steuben Glass division of Corning Glass
(1973-1982). He finished his museum career by again
serving as director of the Corning Museum of Glass (1973-1980). Buechner
became a full-time artist after retiring from Corning in 1987.
He was an artist-in-residence at Littleton Studios in Spruce Pine,
North Carolina in 1982. There he created vitreograph portraits of four
contemporary glass artists: Dale Chihuly, Dan Dailey, Erwin Eisch and
Harvey Littleton. Buechner returned to Littleton Studios in 1987 to
create a portfolio of eleven prints based on RichardWagner's opera,
"Das Rheingold." Please click on the image at left to see Buechner's
work in vitreography.
Printmaker Matt
Liddle in summer exhibition
(6/25/10) Matt Liddle, 2007
visiting artist at Littleton Studios, is currently artist-in-residence
at The Bascom, a fine arts center in Highlands, North Carolina. Liddle
and the work of fellow artists Holly Hanessian (ceramics),
Lewis Knauss (fiber), Mira Lehr (mixed media), Tom Turner (ceramist) and
Phillip Garrett (painter) will be featured in "View:
Artists In Residence and Toe River Potters" in The Bascom's Atrium and
Education Gallery from July 24 through August 22, 2010.
For more information, please telephone The Bascom at 828/526-4949.
Vitreography course offered at Penland School
of Craft
(4/30/10) This summer
(2010) Penland
School of Crafts is offering a course in vitreography, the
printmaking technique that uses sheet glass as a matrix. Daily
demonstrations in the print studio and the glass studio's
cold-working shop will introduce students to a myriad of options for
applying vitreography to their own work. Instructors Morgan Calderini and Nicole Chesney will demonstrate not only how to create
imagery on the glass plate through carving, engraving and
sandblasting; but also how to print and edition vitreographs.
Multiple-plate registration, working reductively and adding chine
collé elements will be covered. All learning levels are
invited to sign up for this fascinating printmaking experience.
Please phone 828/765-2359 for information about registering for this
and other summer classes at Penland.
In memoriam Robert
Freimark 1922-2010
(4/30/10) Robert Freimark, filmmaker, painter,
printmaker, tapestry designer and Professor Emeritus from San Jose State
University, died on February 18, 2010. He was 88 years old.
Freimark visited Littleton Studios in 1991 and again in 1997, where he
produced a total of eight vitreograph prints. Well into his 80s he
continued to produce artworks, travel world-wide and host international
guests at his home in Morgan Hill, California, as well as attend to a
busy schedule of social and cultural events. A retrospective exhibition,
"Bob Freimark: Art of Dissent" was presented at the Mexican Heritage
Plaza in San Jose in 2007. According to a memorial tribute published in
the San Jose Mercury News on March 20, 2010, Freimark maintained a
life-long commitment to to advocating for the arts, education, ethical
values the environment and peace.
Bild-werk Frauenau hosts founder as
artist-in-residence
(4/30/10) Erwin Eisch founded Bild-werk Frauenau, a summer
school for the arts, in 1988. This summer the school, which is to Europe what
Pilchuck Glass School is to the United States, will host the 82 year-old Eisch
as its artist-in-residence. Along with Sybren Valkema and Sam Herman, Eisch is
regarded as the founder of Studio Glass in Europe. In addition to Eisch,
Bild-werk Frauenau will have an impressive line-up of 16 international teachers
for its classes, including Britain's Max Jacquard, who will teach kiln-casting;
the United States' Shane Fero will will teach flameworking with Australia's
Scott Chaseling and Germany's Christian Schmidt will teach glass engraving.
Bild-werk Frauenau's classes run from May through September.
Karen Kunc exhibition, teaching schedule for spring and summer
2010
(4/30/10)
Karen Kunc has a full schedule of activities now through the summer
of 2010. She is currently displaying work in a group show at
the Atrium Gallery in St. Louis, Missouri; that exhibition continues
through May 16. A solo exhibition of Kunc's work will be on view at
Gallery Seoul in Seoul, Korea beginning May 1 and continuing through
May 30, 2010. Kunc will lead workshops throughout the summer months,
beginning At Anderson Ranch Art Center in Snowmass Village,
Colorado. "The Contemporary Print" is scheduled there for June 25 -
25, 2010; "A Book in Hand" will follow on June 28 - July 2, 2010.
Kunc will be Artist in Residence and lead a summer workshop at the
Oregon College of Art and Craft in Portland from July 17-18, 2010.
The she is off to Guanajuato, Mexico for a Forum on Creativity, an
education tour and a mentoring workshop. Visit Karen Kunc's website,
www.karenkunc.net, for more information. Click on image at left to
see this site's Karen Kunc page.
Nancy Genn opens new exhibition
(4/5/10) Painter and sculptor Nancy Genn will open
her exhibition "Geometric Abstractions: An Enduring Legacy" on
April 8, 2010 at Sagan Piechota Architecture in San Francisco.
The reception will begin at 6:00 p.m. with a talk by the artist from
6:30 to 7:00 p.m. Sagan Piechota Architecture is located at 315
Linden Street in San Francisco. To RSVP for the reception please
phone 415/566-7515.
Tom Nakashima featured in Augusta Magazine
(3/31/10) Tom Nakashima, known for his large scale
collage drawings and a guest artist at Littleton Studios in 2006
will be the subject of an article in Augusta Magazine in
August, 2010. Titled "Chaos and Order," the article by writer
Jim Garvey will include a brief overview of Nakashima's career and a
look at his current work.
Chihuly at Frederik
Meijer Gardens & Sculpture Park: A New Eden
(2/19/10) The work of Dale Chihuly will be on-site this spring and
summer at Meijer Gardens in Grand Rapids, Michigan to celebrate the
garden's 15th anniversary. The installation will include chandeliers,
glass towers up to 30 feet high, floating spheres, reeds rising from the
earth, the sun, the moon, and a rowboat full of glass. The exhibition
officially opens to the public on April 30, 2010 and runs through
September 30, 2010. Contact Meijer Gardens at 888-957-1580
Warrington Colescott: Cabaret, Comedy, and Satire
(2/19/10)
The Milwaukee Art Museum, which boasts the largest collection of the
work of Warrington Colescott, will highlight its rich holdings
and celebrate sixty years of Colescott's print production in an upcoming
featured exhibition. Warrington Colescott: Cabaret, Comedy, and
Satire will open on June 10, 2010 and continue through
September 26, 2010 in the museum's Koss Gallery. The Museum is also
preparing the catalogue raisonné of Colescott's printed oeuvre—The
Prints of Warrington Colescott: A Catalogue Raisonné, 1948–2008—to
be co-published by the University of Wisconsin Press. The 352-page
catalogue documents and depicts all 354 of Colescott's editioned prints,
providing title, date, media, dimensions, and selected exhibition
history and collections for each print, along with comments and
anecdotes by Colescott and author Mary Weaver Chapin. Please phone the
Milwaukee Museum of Art for more information at 414-224-3200.
Vitreography course offered at Penland School
of Craft
(2/19/10) This summer
(2010) Penland
School of Crafts is offering a course in vitreography, the
printmaking technique that uses sheet glass as a matrix. Daily
demonstrations in the print studio and the glass studio's
cold-working shop will introduce students to a myriad of options for
applying vitreography to their own work. Instructors Morgan Calderini and Nicole Chesney will demonstrate not only how to create
imagery on the glass plate through carving, engraving and
sandblasting; but also how to print and edition vitreographs.
Multiple-plate registration, working reductively and adding chine
collé elements will be covered. All learning levels are
invited to sign up for this fascinating printmaking experience.
Please phone 828/765-2359 for information about registering for this
and other summer classes at Penland.
Jeffery Sippel and Bradlee Shanks in group exhibition
(2/17/10)
Frogman's Faculty Exhibition, a show of prints by instructors at
Frogman's Press and Gallery in Beresford, South Dakota, will include
the work of Littleton Collection artists Jeffery Sippel and Bradlee
Shanks. They
are exhibiting with
Brett Anderson,
Michael Connors, Margot Ecke, James Ehlers, Jon Goebel, John Hitchcock,
Margo Humphrey, Joel Moline, David Morrison, Nancy Palmeri, Camille
Riner, Bonnie Stahlecker, Jon Swindler, Art Werger, and Koichi Yamamoto.
The exhibition will open on July 4, 2010 and continue through
July 17, 2010. Phone Frogman's at 605/763-5082 for more
information.
Brian Yates exhibits in West Virginia
(2/9/10)
A group exhibition that includes the work of Brian Yates is
currently on display at the David L. Dickerson Fine Arts Gallery in
Beckley, West Virginia. Tamarack: The Best of West
Virginia continues through April 3, 2010. Phone
888/262-7225 for more information.
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