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In Beth Lipman’s Margin For Error (2014) an infant Crib and an adult Cradle are oriented to evoke the universal journey from birth to death. The crib tilts downward, sinking slowly into the floor, propelling its inhabitant toward childhood, adolescence, adulthood, and old age, at which point the cradle awaits occupation.
Continue reading Margin for Error: Glass Crib and Cradle By Beth Lipman
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From the outset of his singular career, designer Marc Newson has pursued parallel activities in limited and mass production of functional design objects. Revisiting his roots as a jeweler and silversmith in an exhibition at Gagosian Gallery in Chelsea, Newson explores increasingly rare decorative techniques at an unconventionally large, even unprecedented, scale.
Newson’s Cast Glass Chairs (2017), made in the Czech Republic, are continuous symmetrical forms comprised of two hollow quarter-spheres. The boldly colored upper halves rest on clear bases, which absorb some of the reflected hues in their clouded interiors, an effect that subtly changes depending on the viewer’s vantage point.
When You Just Get Tired of Waiting for that Final Person to Move Out Of Your Way
Photographed in the Gagosian Gallery, Located at 522 West 21st Street, Chelsea Gallery District, NYC· The Chairs are on View in the Gallery as Part of a Larger Exhibition of Newson’s Limited-Edition Furniture and Artworks, Through February 20th, 2019.
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If you live in or near Palm Springs, California, you still have just over a week to see this cast glass sculpture of a disembodied Kimono, which is called Ojigi-Bowing (2010) by artist Karen LaMonte.
Check out the detail on this piece — I love it!
Photographed as Part of the Exhibit, Glass for the New Millennium: Masterworks from the Kaplan-Ostergaard Collection, On View Through March 7th, 2017 at the Palm Springs Art Museum.
