PRISM Winter/Spring 2008 Newsletter!

Greetings, Friends -what a busy winter we’ve had -I’d started this note so long ago…and now it’s nearly Spring…some of the following may seem like old news.

SOFA Recap
It was a record-setting show for us, beginning with the Opening Night sale of the spectacular “Convergence” by Brian Usher. We’re projecting a big future for Brian, and will feature his sculpture in several shows this year, both at the gallery and at SOFAs in NY and Chicago.

Our thanks to all of you who visited our very busy booth; your kind words and compliments really make our day. If we didn’t get a chance to chat, our apologies, and please drop us a line about anything that interested you…

We also had continued strong support for Afro Celotto, Martin Rosol, and Jeff Wallin as well. Liz Mears made quite an impression with two strong bodies of work: Bundles and Books.

On February 8, we introduced another fantastic artist to the US, Daniela Turrin. She’s highly decorated in her native Australia, and we’re confident you’ll love her painterly cast panels, which exhibit great depths of shadow and light. Daniela doesn’t make a lot of work; we have 1 panel remaining in stock, with plans to receive only 3 or 4 more for the year –basically her entire production.

 

Also opening on the 8th, was "Exposure", a look at some emerging (and re-emerging) talent. Featured artists include Alex Fekete, with his ethereal and graceful eroded forms; Slate Grove, who interprets relics from the tribal Maori culture; Eoin Breadon, who also investigates the artifact, but from his Celtic roots; Devin Burgess, with contemporary, architectural riffs on traditional vessels; and Sean O’Neill, whose reductivist platters are the most painterly of the group. The exhibition is selling well, but choice pieces remain, and a couple new works are being rotated in to replace those sold..

For those of you who are fans of Jeff Wallin’s kiln-formed drawings or Etsuko Ichikawa’s pyrographs, our sister gallery, Function + Art is currently hosting a joint exhibition, “Vestiges”. We’ll still feature Jeff’s work at PRISM going forward, but thought it a nice chance to include his charcoal drawings and glass panels in one show.

 

In April, supporting Glass’ continuing progress and acceptance as a fine art medium, we’ll open a very different exhibition: “Singular Forms : Trans-Minimalist Sculpture”. The inspiration for the exhibition came from Brian Usher’s fantastic suite of works: “The Inevitability of Agnus”. These supremely elegant cast arcs will form the centerpiece of the exhibit, which has grown and developed into perhaps the most ambitious we’ve ever hosted. Brian will be joined by Australians Lisa Cahill and Benjamin Sewell, New Zealand’s Claudia Borella, as well as Martin Rosol, Trinh Nguyen, and Henry Hillman Jr. Do NOT miss this show! In addition to the Opening on Saturday April 5, we will host a reception at the gallery during ArtChicago, on Saturday April 26. Selected works from this exhibition will also be featured at our first-ever SOFA-NY booth. Come out

 

 

For those of you traveling to the Detroit area April 24-26, we’ll also host a Meet-the-Artist Brunch at the Franklin MI home of collector/ sculptor JB Wood. The artist will talk about both his collection and his own body of work, and how the former inspires and informs the latter. To make it convenient for you, JB has agreed to open his home and collection the morning of Friday, April 25 from 11am – 2pm. Space at the Champagne Reception is limited, so please RSVP for confirmation and directions! 312.243.4885 or email

Of course, we’re continually working to bring you the freshest, most dynamic and/or hard-to-find artists working in glass. New artists and inventory include Alessandro Casson (Venice), Oliver Lesso (Slovak Republic), Milos Balgavy (Slovak Republic) and the team of Miroslaw Stankiewicz and Rafal Galazka (Poland).