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Mary Shaffer"Double Wall Hang" glass wall sculpture1997
1997
$14,000
£10,582.27
€12,160.91
CA$19,494.91
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Slumped cast glass and found metal tool.
One of five pieces from Mary Shaffer's "Tool Wall" series selected for Sonoma Valley Museum of Art's exhibition "Pairings: 16 Artists Creatively Combined," on display from October 8, 2016 to December 30, 2016. Guest curated by Jennifer Bethke, "Pairings" brought together contemporary artworks, rather than food and wine, in order to create surprising but harmonious combinations. Previously displayed at Gerald Peters Gallery, Santa Fe, NM; Ellen Noel Museum, Midland/Odessa, TX; Habatat Galleries; and Katzen Arts Center, American University Museum, Washington, DC.
"Double Ring Hang" is available individually or with other "Tool Wall" pieces to create a custom wall installation. Please contact the gallery for more information.
Renowned American Studio Glass artist Mary Shaffer combines slumped hot glass with found metal for her wall-hung "Tool Wall" sculpture series. "I take lovingly crafted, hand-forged tools - the epitome of American inventiveness - to preserve and pay tribute to activities and methods of working that have disappeared from our modern lives," says Shaffer.
Mary Shaffer has worked primarily in glass since the 1970s, and was an early artist in the American Studio Glass Movement. She invented a whole new way to work with and think about glass - a process she called "mid-air slumping." "The structural system I create allows the glass to move with fluidity and freedom you can't possibly envision or create with a mold," Shaffer explains. "Because I work with gravity, the strongest unknown force in the universe, I say I work with nature. I call this the 'female principle' in the Jungian sense; the idea of yielding and joining forces with nature, versus the 19th Century attitude of 'man over nature.' This is the fundamental philosophy behind my glass work."
Shaffer has shown her work in over 60 museums worldwide, and her work is in the collections of the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, Smithsonian in Washington DC, Grounds for Sculpture in New Jersey, and the Museum of Modern Art in Kyoto, Japan, among many others. She has also taught at Rhode Island School of Design, Wellesley College, and New York University.
- Creator:Mary Shaffer (1947, American)
- Creation Year:1997
- Dimensions:Height: 18 in (45.72 cm)Width: 4.25 in (10.8 cm)Depth: 7 in (17.78 cm)
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- Gallery Location:Glen Ellen, CA
- Reference Number:1stDibs: LU71213436422
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