24th Annual Peninsula Glass Guild Members Exhibition

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Ali Rogan: Allegorical Stories in Glass

This show ends January 22, 2012 at Charles H. Taylor Arts Center, Hampton VA

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Juror's Statement - Charlotte Potter As an artist whose studio practice has been rooted in making, experimenting and learning from glass, I find it remarkable to encounter the expansive breath of work in the 24th Annual Peninsula Glass Guild Exhibition. It is not often that you find the student adjacent to the Italian Master, next to the hobbyist, next to the professional artist. Some works celebrate the grandiose, while others the discrete. The show is professional, well developed and handsomely displayed. Glass, for me is a constant balance and dance. The material itself embodies duality, it is both liquid and solid, elastic and brittle. Upon entering this show, I was faced with the challenge to create a taxonomy suitable for judging the diverse scope of work exhibited. For this I called upon my own process of creating: I considered technique and material studies, then idea and conceptual vigor. Finally where these two (sometimes opposing) forces meet in a piece, I found thoughtful work steady in these binary pursuits, much like glass itself. Finally, it is the community and dialogue that emerges from this gathering that I find particular to this medium. The Peninsula Glass Guild is an amazing organization that fosters this unique community. Now that we all know each other, I would like to personally invite each of you to the Chrysler Museum Glass Studio to continue your vast interests in our new state of the art facility. It is a pleasure and an honor to Jury this exhibition.

Charlotte Potter