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Aug/Sept 2008
Aug/Sept 2008
Books
Hugo França: The Story of the Tree
By Evelise Grunow R 20th Century Gallery New York, New York $60 During a time when the scarcity of natural resources and the reuse of materials are ever-more-pertinent concerns in the worlds of art and design, the work of the Brazilian designer-maker Hugo França reminds us that magnificent sculptural and utilitarian objects can be fashioned from cast-offs. For the past 15 ...
By Evelise Grunow R 20th Century Gallery New York, New York $60 During a time when the scarcity of natural resources and the reuse of materials are ever-more-pertinent concerns in the worlds of art and design, the work of the Brazilian designer-maker Hugo França reminds us that magnificent sculptural and utilitarian objects can be fashioned from cast-offs. For the past 15 ...
Lines Through Light: Stephen Procter
By Dan Klein, Stephen Procter RLDI Rob Little Digital Imaging Carwoola, New South Wales, Australia $78 In a career of some three decades, the British-born artist and teacher Stephen Procter (1946–2002) created a serene, accomplished oeuvre that encompassed glass works, but also paintings and drawings that reflected his aesthetic concerns. After studying both engineering and agriculture, Procter became a glass ...
By Dan Klein, Stephen Procter RLDI Rob Little Digital Imaging Carwoola, New South Wales, Australia $78 In a career of some three decades, the British-born artist and teacher Stephen Procter (1946–2002) created a serene, accomplished oeuvre that encompassed glass works, but also paintings and drawings that reflected his aesthetic concerns. After studying both engineering and agriculture, Procter became a glass ...
Checking In
Handcraft: the lore of the substances
In December 1954 George William Eggers reflected in Craft Horizons on how handcrafts fill a growing need t0 cultivate the senses.
In December 1954 George William Eggers reflected in Craft Horizons on how handcrafts fill a growing need t0 cultivate the senses.
Critic’s Corner
Public Works
Edward Lebow contends that public works at their best have enabled artists to alter the experience and function of common spaces, but that lack of training has limited the talent pool needed to build upon these achievements.
Edward Lebow contends that public works at their best have enabled artists to alter the experience and function of common spaces, but that lack of training has limited the talent pool needed to build upon these achievements.
Editor’s Letter
Craft & Politics
Outside the studio door it’s a political season, something the craft field always seems to recognize—for better or for worse.
Outside the studio door it’s a political season, something the craft field always seems to recognize—for better or for worse.
Feature
Craft & Community
Artecnica and Denyse Schmidt Quilts both build community through craft. In conversations with Joyce Lovelace, the heads of these companies reveal their blend of altruism and entrepreneurship and offer a vision of handwork as a catalyst for positive change.
Artecnica and Denyse Schmidt Quilts both build community through craft. In conversations with Joyce Lovelace, the heads of these companies reveal their blend of altruism and entrepreneurship and offer a vision of handwork as a catalyst for positive change.
Let ’em Eat Cake
Does the current DIY renaissance have political import? Sabrina Gschwandtner weighs in on the subject, casting an eye on the “Sugarcraft” exhibition in Chicago.
Does the current DIY renaissance have political import? Sabrina Gschwandtner weighs in on the subject, casting an eye on the “Sugarcraft” exhibition in Chicago.
Hunting & Gathering
Margo Grant Walsh: Collecting by Design
Interior architect Margo Grant Walsh has assembled a stellar collection of 20th-century silver and metalwork, now on view in an exhibition at the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, and documented in its companion book. Alan Rosenberg visits with Grant Walsh and finds out what prompted this ongoing collecting passion.
Interior architect Margo Grant Walsh has assembled a stellar collection of 20th-century silver and metalwork, now on view in an exhibition at the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, and documented in its companion book. Alan Rosenberg visits with Grant Walsh and finds out what prompted this ongoing collecting passion.
Material Matters
Making the New MADhouse
Shonquis Moreno finds that in the act of transforming New York’s Huntington Hartford building into the new home for the Museum of Arts & Design, Allied Works Architecture has created a vast crafted object.
Shonquis Moreno finds that in the act of transforming New York’s Huntington Hartford building into the new home for the Museum of Arts & Design, Allied Works Architecture has created a vast crafted object.
On Our Radar
Hisano Takei
In 2004 Hisano Takei was pursuing an M.F.A. in metals and jewelry at the State University of New York at New Paltz when she was assigned her first graduate school project—to make 10 related objects in 10 days. Takei panicked. She knew it was impossible to complete 10 pieces of jewelry out of metal in that time frame. So she ...
In 2004 Hisano Takei was pursuing an M.F.A. in metals and jewelry at the State University of New York at New Paltz when she was assigned her first graduate school project—to make 10 related objects in 10 days. Takei panicked. She knew it was impossible to complete 10 pieces of jewelry out of metal in that time frame. So she ...
Outskirts
Keeping it Real
Laurie Manfra discovers that it takes almost a village—or at least a full team of glassblowers and machinists—to create Lindsey Adelman’s made-to-order innovative Bubble chandeliers.
Laurie Manfra discovers that it takes almost a village—or at least a full team of glassblowers and machinists—to create Lindsey Adelman’s made-to-order innovative Bubble chandeliers.
People & Places
Moving On, Inspiring Projects, Farewells
After “getting up and going to school for 60 years,” Tony Hepburn is a full-time artist at last, having retired from a lifetime of teaching, most recently as the head of ceramics at Cranbrook Academy of Art. His thoughts on the transition? “Obviously, a lot of reflection,” says the British-born sculptor, 66. “Primarily, the odd coincidence that ...
After “getting up and going to school for 60 years,” Tony Hepburn is a full-time artist at last, having retired from a lifetime of teaching, most recently as the head of ceramics at Cranbrook Academy of Art. His thoughts on the transition? “Obviously, a lot of reflection,” says the British-born sculptor, 66. “Primarily, the odd coincidence that ...
Preview
Natural Selection
Ogle Hilary Pfeifer Portland, Oregon September 4– November 1, 2008 Hilary Pfeifer typically works macro and micro, large and small. Though the Portland artist has a B.F.A. in metals, her preferred form over the last few years has been an installation composed of numerous small one-of-a-kind wood and mixed media sculptures that she paints with bright, cartoonish colors. She believes ...
Ogle Hilary Pfeifer Portland, Oregon September 4– November 1, 2008 Hilary Pfeifer typically works macro and micro, large and small. Though the Portland artist has a B.F.A. in metals, her preferred form over the last few years has been an installation composed of numerous small one-of-a-kind wood and mixed media sculptures that she paints with bright, cartoonish colors. She believes ...
Open Weave
Hibberd McGrath Gallery Jim Kraft Breckenridge, Colorado August 1–24, 2008 Over a 30-year career the Seattle ceramist Jim Kraft has demonstrated the variety possible in handbuilding earthenware, having created indoor tile murals, vessels and sculptural pieces. Of the evolution of his work, he says, “I take certain elements that ‘work’ in one series and often build the next series based on ...
Hibberd McGrath Gallery Jim Kraft Breckenridge, Colorado August 1–24, 2008 Over a 30-year career the Seattle ceramist Jim Kraft has demonstrated the variety possible in handbuilding earthenware, having created indoor tile murals, vessels and sculptural pieces. Of the evolution of his work, he says, “I take certain elements that ‘work’ in one series and often build the next series based on ...
Telling Dreams
del Mano Gallery Binh Pho August 2–30, 2008 For close to 15 years, the Vietnamese-American artist Binh Pho has been creating singular turned and pierced wood vessels vividly painted with images that have symbolic or narrative import. Since 2000, he has introduced elements that reflect his compelling biography. Pho, who now lives with his family outside Chicago, was born in 1955 ...
del Mano Gallery Binh Pho August 2–30, 2008 For close to 15 years, the Vietnamese-American artist Binh Pho has been creating singular turned and pierced wood vessels vividly painted with images that have symbolic or narrative import. Since 2000, he has introduced elements that reflect his compelling biography. Pho, who now lives with his family outside Chicago, was born in 1955 ...
Product Placement
Josh Urso Design
Josh Urso’s furniture and lighting designs are moments frozen in time that invite us to stop, observe and wonder. “Confuse, amaze and entertain your guests” is the pitch on Urso’s website for his aptly named Specter chairs. To make them he takes fabric, infuses it with resin, then hand-molds it into the form of a seat casually draped with a ...
Josh Urso’s furniture and lighting designs are moments frozen in time that invite us to stop, observe and wonder. “Confuse, amaze and entertain your guests” is the pitch on Urso’s website for his aptly named Specter chairs. To make them he takes fabric, infuses it with resin, then hand-molds it into the form of a seat casually draped with a ...
Review
Earl Pardon: Palette Maestro
Kimberly Cridler demonstrates the artistry of Earl Pardon’s metalwork in a survey at the Racine Art Museum in Wisconsin.
Kimberly Cridler demonstrates the artistry of Earl Pardon’s metalwork in a survey at the Racine Art Museum in Wisconsin.
L. Brent Kington
Polly Ullrich explores the groundbreaking role of “mythic metalsmith” L. Brent Kington in developing blacksmithing as an art form in his retrospective at the Illinois State Museum Chicago Gallery.
Polly Ullrich explores the groundbreaking role of “mythic metalsmith” L. Brent Kington in developing blacksmithing as an art form in his retrospective at the Illinois State Museum Chicago Gallery.
Shop Talk
Northern Exposure
Look North Gallery 275 Conover Street Suite 4E Brooklyn, New York 11231 (347) 721-3995 In 1991 Jim Clark , now the owner of Look North Gallery in the Red Hook neighborhood of Brooklyn, New York, left behind his life in the fishing town of New Bedford, Massachusetts, for the wilds of Alaska. For the next 15 years he spent an average ...
Look North Gallery 275 Conover Street Suite 4E Brooklyn, New York 11231 (347) 721-3995 In 1991 Jim Clark , now the owner of Look North Gallery in the Red Hook neighborhood of Brooklyn, New York, left behind his life in the fishing town of New Bedford, Massachusetts, for the wilds of Alaska. For the next 15 years he spent an average ...
Wide World of Craft
Ireland: In Pursuit of Craft
In a whirlwind trip around the Emerald Isle, Beverly Sanders takes the pulse of the vital Irish craft scene.
In a whirlwind trip around the Emerald Isle, Beverly Sanders takes the pulse of the vital Irish craft scene.
Aug/Sept 2008
Vol. 68, No. 4
Vol. 68, No. 4
Departments
