All the magazines I read are from the library, so they are always from a few months back. I came across an American Craft magazine with an interesting article about Ann Wolff from the June/July 2007 edition. She is primarily a glass artist but doesn’t limit herself to one medium. In working with glass she said:
“Very early I tried to get spontaneity into glass, scooping it up, allowed it to flow freely, put obstacles in its way, moulded structures into it, blew it and poured it into water, mud, snow, remodeled it, changed its state, meanwhile dipping it into dark enamel–all in order to allow it to go in unpredictable ways.”
I hadn’t come across her work before, but was excited by her “Des Femmes”–a series of solid, amber-colored, bowl-like shapes made from kiln-cast glass. They are at once delicate and massive, the carmeled color shifting with the glass’ density. I love her quote that she rebels against the “petty bourgeois, pretentious art-muff” that is most glass art (sounds like the work of one of our state’s most famous glass artists…)
I would love to get in so deep with my materials that I could wrestle the hell out of it and come out on top like Ann Wolff’s work so clearly does.
