GLASS: The UrbanGlass Art Quarterly issue #142

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The Spring 2016 edition of GLASS: The UrbanGlass Art Quarterly (#142) is hitting newsstands and subscriber mailboxes at a moment when virtual reality is poised to go mainstream. All of the buzz about this revolutionary new digital technology inspired us to remind the world of the rich terrain already mined by visual artists, who've used installations, architecture, and sculpture that create new realities through repeat reflectivity, partially mirrored glass surfaces, and cultivated perceptual shifts that play with optics to alter our relationship to the world around us, and force us to reconsider our place in it.

Also in the new edition:

• Greek artist Costas Varotsos uses glass on a monumental scale to transform the environment. GLASS correspondent Randy B. Hecht travels to the Greek island of Aegina, where the artist lives and works, to pen a rich portrait of this ambitious visionary.
• GLASS correspondent Lise Kjaer takes stock of the ambitions and ultimate demise of Vitraria Glass +A, a contemporary art museum with a focus on glass as both metaphor and a material. 
• Finally, our newest contributing editor John Drury sits down with Australian native Clare Belfrage, who shares the nuances of how her country and its unique ecosystems provide inspiration for her richly adorned abstracted vessels with swirling and intricate line patterns.
• All this plus six exhibition reviews, the latest news from the glass world, and a back-page essay on the Art Basel Miami Beach circus.
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Glass On Newsstands

GLASS: The UrbanGlass Art Quarterly (#141)

Glass On Newsstands

The Fall 2015 edition of GLASS: The UrbanGlass Art Quarterly(#140) is hitting newsstands and subscriber mailboxes. On the cover is a work by French installation artist Baptiste Debombourg, who created a room with massive windows collapsing inward. Contributing editor Victoria Josslin presents a meditation on Debombourg's grand catastrophe in Aerial (a 2012 site-specific installation at the Brauweiler Abbey near Cologne, Germany), considering the scene as a frozen moment just after the impact of some cataclysmic explosion outside. In another Debombourg work, a fractured bus shelter titled Crystal Palace looks like a Paris landmark after a brutally destructive riot. As we are inundated with images and news of our increasingly tumultuous times, Debombourg's artifacts of unnamed violence tap into our collective unease and provoke not just reflection but, potentially, action. Josslin ponders whether it would be accurate to consider this work conceptual, or if it requires another term to encompass its multilayered yet open-ended impact on viewers.  

The Fall 2015 issue also examines WheatonArt's bold bid to elevate its visibility by drawing top name artist to Millville, New Jersey, for a project entitled "Emanation," a year-long creative collaboration with 11 artists including Judy Pfaff, Donald Lispky, Mark Dion, and Paula Hayes, to name just four. The "Emanation" museum opening coincided with the 2015 Glass Weekend event, and brought together the established glass collector world with a new kind of work in glass that might represent an exciting future direction for this arts organization that offers one of the most important residencies for up-and-coming artists.

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