Kiki Smith, b. 1954, Germany

Similar to the themes present in “Sojourn,” which explores the female lifecycle, from birth to death, “Lodestar” is rife with religious and mystical symbolism offset by contemporary realism. Composed of thirty hand-painted glass panels chronicling women in various stages of life, the exhibition is laid out in one single group. Painted in a detailed style reminiscent of etching, these works revel in their feminine details. Smith first became interested in glass through Christopher Wilmarth, a friend of her father, minimalist sculptor Tony Smith. Ms. Smith says that she took a liking to blown and solid glass early in her career (the mid-1980s), an era which she laments, “suffered [from] ‘a tremendous cultural bias since this type of work was considered craft and really dismissed.’”

Not so anymore.

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This Image features: Search, 2008, Cast aluminum, white gold and gold leaf. Mirror Blossoms, 2008, Mouth blown clear antique glass, black paint, yellow and white gold-coated, Five Panels, approximately each. Silver Bird, 2006, Ink on Nepal paper with silver gouache, mica, glitter and graphite

Tilda Swinton, Artist, b. 1960 United Kingdom

Two of the many articles you can read about this piece. 

Tilda Swinton Slept in a Glass Box at the Museum of Modern Art by Mackenzie Yang

The art of sleeping: Oscar winner Tilda Swinton sleeps in a glass box at New York museum for SEVEN hours a day for an exhibit by Tom Leonard

Pernilla Stellgren, Student Work

"Yet a thorough description of homogeneous "space" and sequential "time," as objectively existing entities, had to wait until the invention of the printing press. For it was the dissemination of printed texts (texts that until then had been meticulously copied by hand and preserved, like treasures, in monastic libraries and universities) into the wider community of persons, and the subsequent rise o vernacular literatures, that effectively sealed the ascendancy of alphabetic modes of thought over the oral, participatory experience of nature" (David Abram, the spell of the sensuous).

This chapter inspired me to create the preservation of the oral language but with the modern aspect of it. We are a society obsessed with preserving, whether it is food that has been modified to last longer than normal or even our own youth. The glass device has the scientific suggestion of preservation and the blue represents earth and the color of the oceans viewed form space. The liquid will eventually evaporate and the text dipped in the liquid will also eventually fade away; All to contrast the inevitable part of life’s cycle of change and development.

Marcel Duchamp, Aritst

Paris Air

1919

A glass phial filled with genuine Paris air, this Readymade acts as a type of portable souvenir, which Duchamp originally gave to his friend Walter Arensberg. Duchamp had a pharmacist empty the ampoule, which originally contained serum, and then seal it again once air replaced its original contents. Accordingly, (and in typical Duchampian fashion) Duchamp attached a label with "Serum Physiologique" ("Physiological Serum") printed on it (Schwarz 676). As Ramirez explains, in this state Paris Air, unlike most other Readymades, is "extremely fragile" (46).

Image and text from toufait.com.  More to read.  Link here.

Sibylle Peretti, Artist

Glass and Mixed Media

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Nobuko Tsuchiya, Artist

Table Rabbit

Sister of Nike

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Fog Around

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Romana Schmalisch, Artist

Kit Paulson, Artist

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Adeline de Monseignat, Artist

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Luka Fineisen, Artist

Plastic bubbles.
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Filipe Soares, Artist

"Portuguese artist Filipe Soares has created this wonderfully detailed and whimsical series of miniatures titled ‘Floating Dreams.’ The pieces, which demonstrate Soares ability to produce aesthetically pleasing scenes above and beyond the added factor of its size, convey numerous scenes of human interaction ranging from the biblical to capitalist. The artistic talent Soares exercises in these pieces is clearly far from miniature." -source is format.  Link here.