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Novie Trump is a world renown ceramic artist, working from Flux Studios, located right next door to the Washington Glass School. Her poetic sculptural work often involves depictions of nature – presented in unexpected and captivating ways.
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| Novie Trump Escape Installation of porcelain butterflies and ceramic book Ceramic, Acrylic Rods, Steel 60” x 60” x 24”(variable) |
Novie is working on a commissioned artwork piece that came to her via Project 4 Gallery: to create large scale installation that will be located in the new Farmers & Fishers restaurant now being built at the Georgetown waterfront.
Her artwork design calls for many porcelain bees to be clustered around illuminated hives are various locations. The design of the beehive has brought her to the glass studio – and it is a chance for the glass artists to bring Novie over to the dark – or rather – the glassy side.
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| Erwin Timmers offers some adventurous suggestions to Novie, but from the expressions on both her and Tim Tate’s face, they seem unlikely to be incorporated. |
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| A sample of Novie Trump’s porcelain bees |
Novie chose to work with illuminated glass – creating a pattern of cellular hive divisions with frit powder fused to glass, and slumped over a tapered form. The WGS fritmaster – Michael Janis – offered Novie some pointers on how to manipulate the powder.
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| Novie Trump and Michael Janis share a laugh as they work |
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| Novie sifts glass powder onto a sheet of glass |
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| Manipulating frit powder is a delicate operation |
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| Novie Trump and Michael Janis evaluate the glass’ progress prior to loading the layer in a kiln for firing |
 After fusing, the samples are compared by Novie Trump for her preferred selection of color and texture combination |
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| Novie made many studies of the color and textures and tested the samples with light source alternates. |
Bullseye RCBA Gallery Opens Painterly Glass Exhibit
>Bullseye Glass had earlier this year opened their new facility in the California’s Bay area near the Silicon Valley/Berkely/San Francisco corridor of Emeryville, CA. The place is called Resource Center Bay Area (RCBA) and this facility (the third of BE owned centers) offers workshops, supplies and a gallery.
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| RCBA, Bullseye Glass’ new home in California. 4514 Hollis Street, Emeryville, CA |
One of the upcoming exhibits at the RCBA Gallery opens this coming Saturday, Aug 4, 2012. Titled: Facture: Artists on the Forefront of Painterly Glass, a number of the works were shown at BE’s Portland gallery early this year in a show of the same name. The exhibit will showcase kilnformed glass paintings (mostly frit on sheet glass) from the artists Abi Spring, Kari Minnick, Martha Pfanschmidt, Ted Sawyer, Jeff Wallin, and WGS’ Michael Janis.
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Jeff Wallin Residue of a Figure Study kilnformed glass |
from the BE website:
Facture: Artists at the Forefront of Painterly Glass is a group exhibition that explores many of the concerns of contemporary painting, but does this exploration with glass. Painting exists in a continuum with centuries of tradition while simultaneously embracing aspects of sculpture, installation and collage. Painting today goes beyond pigment on a surface; it is an approach to image making that encompasses the ways in which a material is used to construct a work, how an artist approaches a subject, and even how an image is conceived. The artists included in Facture are constructing paintings using glass.
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Michael Janis Observation of Signals kilnformed glass and steel |
Glass, unlike traditional painting materials, is both surface and solid. Value and intensity can be created on the suface as well as volumetrically. Paintings made from glass are image and object; illusion and reality, and these artists, at the forefront of this young method, are scratching at the boundaries of both.
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Martha Pfanschmidt Last Year kilnformed and coldworked glass |
View the exhibition: Bullseye Resource Center Bay Area Gallery, August 4 – October 20, 2012.
Opening Reception: Saturday, August 4, 3–5pm.
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