On July 9th, Preston Singletary and I open a show at Blue Rain Gallery in Santa Fe, NM. It will be a gala extravaganza of Stendahlian proportions.
This video, made while we were visiting artists at the Museum of Glass, gives a sneak peek of some of the work we made together.
Glass Quarterly gave my horse mask a little shout out on their blog. Click here to check it out.
A new exhibit, A Song for the Horse Nation, opened November 14th at the National Museum of the American Indian in NYC.
It features a kiln worked glass horse mask by Marcus. You can learn more about the exhibit and see the piece by visiting the exhibit web site here: http://www.nmai.si.edu/exhibitions/horsenation/index.html
Marcus and Preston Singletary will be a part of the “visiting artist” program at the Museum of Glass in Washington state November 11-15.
From the Museum of Glass web site:
Marcus Amerman is an enrolled member of the Choctaw Nation of Oklahoma and creates works using traditional beadwork techniques infused with his own style of stitching beads into realistic, pictorial images, rather than patterns. Tlingit tribal member Preston Singletary will join him in the Hot Shop to collaborate on new designs.
This residency is presented in conjunction with Singletary’s exhibition, Preston Singletary: Echoes, Fire, and Shadows.
On November 15th, Joe Feddersen joins them for a panel discussion at 2 pm.
Learn more by visiting the Museum of Glass website http://www.museumofglass.org/
(Images above: Moundbuilder 1 by Marcus Amerman; Unknown by Preston Singletary borrowed from the MOG site).
Marcus will have a piece in a show called Looking Forward at Traver Gallery in Tacoma, WA from March 14 - April 5, 2009. Click here to see the online exhibition.
From Traver Gallery:
Traver Gallery - Tacoma is proud to present LOOK FORWARD - a group exhibition curated by a selection of glass artists influential in bringing about the studio glass movement. Pairing these current masters with artists who they feel follow in their footsteps, the exhibit features work from 22 “emerging master” artists alongside work by the 17 recognized leaders who selected them. Sarah Traver, director of the Tacoma gallery says, “The show was conceived as a response to questions about the future. Where are we headed from here? The world of art glass is full of young innovators whose work we attempt to recognize and represent early. We found it fascinating to find out who the current masters think will be the next leaders in glass.”
Uniting the next generation of artists with the artists who established the art-glass movement, LOOK FORWARD highlights the immeasurable contributions of the masters and the enormous potential of the young artists who follow them. Selection statements written by the curating artists elucidate what they believe to be the defining characteristics qualifying these younger artists as “emerging masters”. Artist Therman Statom says of his selection Korbinian Stoekle, “Korbinian’s works made me reevaluate my own expectations of what I do as a visual artist. I sense a different way of seeing, or perceiving, and I find that refreshing. . . Korbinian redefines his past artistic vocabulary and creates a new language within itself on a piece-by-piece basis. I have a sense of wonderment with the ideas of why, what, and how the objects he makes materialize. I believe these processes are essential to all artistic growth.”
Young artists develop adventurous techniques and exchange new concepts, pushing forward the contemporary movement - contributions that signify their influence within the art glass community. The master artists who have mentored this second generation are uniquely able to recognize the significance of this growth. With selections from artists as diverse as Sonja Blomdahl, the de la Torre brothers, Tobias Møhl, and Therman Statom, LOOK FORWARD highlights the changing landscape of glass art around the world.