Natural Flow: Contemporary Alberta Glass

October 1 - December 24, 2011

Reception: Saturday, October 1, from 2 - 4 pm

This unique group exhibition features a wide range of contemporary handmade hot glass art, from large scale sculpture to small vessels, by sixteen Alberta glass artists. The theme of Natural Flow: Contemporary Alberta Glass highlights the singular ability of hot glass to embody organic and biomorphic ideas, forms and forces. While the very nature of glass as an ‘amorphous solid’ – neither liquid nor solid - can lend it these qualities physically, the works in hot glass presented here take it a step beyond, evoking natural forces of change visually and also metaphorically, through a variety of strategies from imagery to humour and spiritual contemplation.

Natural Flow: Contemporary Alberta Glass was curated by Joanne Marion and organized by the Esplanade Art Gallery in collaboration with the Alberta Craft Council and The Calgary Glass Initiative, and is accompanied by a catalogue and a website www.natural-flow.ca

Participating artists: Phillip Bandura, Bee Kingdom, Tim Belliveau, Cailey Buye, Ryan Marsh Fairweather, Robert Geyer, Mark Gibeau, Brian Hall, Jeff Holmwood, Marty Kaufman, Deanna MacAuley, Darren James Petersen, Julia Reimer, Tyler Rock, Natali Rodrigues, Kai Georg Scholefield, Keith Walker