>
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.
 |
| 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.
 |
| 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. |
 |
| 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.
 |
| Novie Trump and Michael Janis share a laugh as they work |
 |
| Novie sifts glass powder onto a sheet of glass |
 |
| Manipulating frit powder is a delicate operation |
 |
| 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 |
 |
| Novie made many studies of the color and textures and tested the samples with light source alternates. |
Project 4 Gallery Yuletide Art Festival
>
Yuletide: a year-end art festival at Project 4
December 4 – 22, 2010
Yuletide marks the 1st year-end art festival at Project 4 Gallery. The exhibition features a selection of small works by artists who frequently collaborate with Project 4. All works of art are priced under $1,000.
Yuletide considers and presents art of all media including: recycled glass, LP records transformed, drawings, watercolors, ceramics, wood sculpture, and more.
Featured artists include: Margaret Boozer, Beau Chamberlain, Justin Gibbens, Kate Hardy, Tricia Keightley, Laurel Lukaszewski, Thomas Müller, Foon V. Sham, Erwin Timmers, and Paul Villinski.
1353 U Street NW, Suite 302
Washington, DC 20009
The exhibition runs December 4 – 22, 2010
Opening reception on December 4, 6:30 pm- 9:30 pm.
The opening reception will feature a musical performance by Saïs Kamalidiin and Rick Peralta from the group MIN from 7:00 -8:00 pm followed by an artist talk at 8:15 pm.
The gallery will be open Monday to Saturday, 12 to 6:00 pm.
For more information: (202) 232-4340 or email: info@project4gallery.com.