An incredible group exhibit at PA’s Hodge Gallery at the Pittsburgh Glass Center (PGC) opens May 2nd, 2014, titled “Breaking Through: Moving 4ward”.
Each of the women artists had spent a month in residence at PGC, where they experimented with new techniques for their craft, displaying varying styles and concepts as they worked from four different studios within PGC. Missouri–based glass artist Laura Beth Konopinski works primarily with glass, although uses other mediums including photography and metal.
Arising from her passion and labors with environmental conservation, Konopinski repurposes used materials and integrates carefully preserved organic compounds into sculpted layers of glass vessels. She uses transparent glass as a lens for distortion to emphasize the ambiguous nature of human belief in reality.
Nadine Saylor of Hershey, Pa. explores the dichotomy of fantasy and reality in a work called “The Illusion of Ordinary Life.” It recreates a version of a vintage motion lamp from the 30s and 40s. Imagery of a beggar woman on the streets in Venice is superimposed with images of carousel horses. Saylor currently teaches glass classes at Harrisburg Area Community College.
Also featured in the show are Lisa Demagall and Anna Mlasowsky.
“Breaking Through: Moving 4ward”
May 2 thru July 20, 2014; Opening reception: May 2, 2014, 6 PM
Pittsburgh Glass Center, Hodge Gallery
5472 Penn Ave. , Pittsburgh, PA 15206