Suzanne Wallace Mears, Pippin Gallery
Suzanne Wallace Mears, Pippin Gallery
Suzanne Wallace Mears, Pippin Gallery
Glass in Salida–Steph Brady at the Green Cat
June 6, 2012 — Miriam SaganSteph Brady glass artwork at the Green Cat–a fun and funky gallery around the corner from me in Salida.
Fred Wilson at the Pace Gallery: Venice Suite
April 13, 2012 — Miriam Sagan
Glass Poem by Arlene Mandell
April 1, 2012 — Miriam SaganSmoothing Jagged Edges
Hissing surf presses pebbles
into shifting sand, fitting
fragments tightly together
a stained glass mosaic–black,
white, tan–separated by strands
of emerald seaweed.
I hold a pale glass triangle
turned by ten thousand waves
a frosted talisman to slip
into my pocket as the sun
slides below the horizon.
Room Made of Glass
January 16, 2012 — Miriam Sagan
Breaking the Bottle, installation by Mark Reigelman, made of 1,000 pounds of crushed glass.
Glimmering Gone
December 23, 2011 — Miriam Sagan I could go on and on about our visit to the Museum of Glass in Tacoma. I’ve become increasingly obsessed with glass, and Tacoma is an epicenter–home of Chihuly. There is a bridge of glass objects across the highway, and a train station turned courthouse hung with Chihuly installations that pretty much defy my descriptive powers–think living coral reef hung in midair in a neoclassical dome.
But I did want to show you GLIMMERING GONE: Ingalena Klenell and Beth Lipman, a clear glass collaboration between two women.
Remember in the fairy tale “The Twelve Dancing Princesses?” How they go down a trap door to three underworld woods–silver, gold, and finally crystal? I think I found that third magical forest.
Oiva Toikka Birds at the Museum of Glass in Tacoma
December 23, 2011 — Miriam SaganA combination of two of my favorite things in the world– glass birds by Scandinavian artist Oiva Toikka.
What struck me was how gestural these are–they “feel” like birds about to move, the shapes evoke birdness. I bought a little one with brown spots–tangible if I run a finger over its surface.
Parenthetically Speaking: Museum of Glass
December 23, 2011 — Miriam SaganThe Museum of Glass in Tacoma was an incredibly inspiring experience. Outstanding among the exhibits, particularly for a writer:
Parenthetically Speaking: It’s Only a Figure of Speech is a new collection of work by San Francisco-based artist Mildred Howard comprising more than 40 glass punctuation marks, proofreading symbols and musical notes. Howard’s inspiration for the work came from At the End, a poem by her friend and Peabody Award-winner Quincy Troupe. Both the poem and the exhibition reference punctuation as a metaphor for the passage of time. “Life is a series of questions,” comments Howard. “As soon as you answer one, you’re on to the next.”
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at the end
of every sentence
a period
occupying space
as molecular energy
a point to make
another point
Quincy Troupe
