Rhythms: Six Women Sculptors in Glass
About the artists:
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Soul Vessel With Urn by Jude Schlotzhauer |
Standing Book: The Bone Woman by Elizabeth Mears |
Jude Schlotzhauer is curator and one of the six exhibiting artists. Her boat forms and passages explore the
spiritual journey into the mysteries of the unknown, touching a memory deep in the collective unconscious.
By using imagery, which references ancient cultures, and artifacts from her own experience, she reaches for
cultural connections to past and future.
Mary White, a California artist, creates dwelling places, freestanding structures on stilts, created from glass
building blocks, metal and wood. She refers to home as a spirit, as much as a place, the house as an expression
of the transitory, yet with a substantial quality of the inner dwelling: a place of healing and substance.
Anna Boothe, from Pennsylvania, melds fragments of domestic tools with female figures to address womenıs
roles. Some of her elaborate glass castings have the look of lavish cake decorations applied to classical forms.
She explores connections between the traditional and the contemporary in womenıs lives.
Elizabeth Mears lives among hardwood trees in Virginia where her torch worked sculptures are reflections of her
environment. She refers to her work as a journey of creative meditation, as she is drawn to the skeletons of trees in
winter and the gathering of twigs for the hearthfires. In her artwork she bundles glass twigs, and creates translucent
images on glass pages, like leaves falling from a book.
Lisa Zerkowitz, whoıs surroundings are the lush forests of the North West, also draws content from nature. Her wall
pieces of glass, steel and ink are drawings of living plants. They appear fragile and strong, tenuous and permanent,
obvious and illusive, alluding to the nurturing of life.
Ana Thiel is from Mexico. She uses hot glass poured from the furnace to interact with objects from the environment
and culture around her. She burns through books, wood and other organic found objects to significantly alter their design.
Ultimately, she reintroduces the materials and explores their effect on each other, binding them together into new and
permanent relationships.