EXHIBITIONS

20/20: TWENTY ARTISTS / TWENTY YEARS
Kiln-glass from the New Glass Review of the Corning Museum of Glass, featuring a special exhibit of Jurors' Choice and Rakow Award winners.

Each year a jury chosen by the Corning Museum of Glass reviews and selects 100 glassworks created within the prior year for inclusion in its annual survey of the year's aesthetic and technical achievements in the field of contemporary glass. The New Glass Review - or NGR - announced each spring, is always both inspirational and controversial.

In conjunction with BECon 2005, the Bullseye Gallery director has selected twenty artists whose works in kilnformed glass have appeared among these top honors from 1985 to 2005, An image of the winning object is paired with current work by the same artist to give visitors both a broader history of the medium and an opportunity to see the career development of the artists represented.

Many of the NGR award winners are presenters at BECon. Additionally, Corning's Curator of Modern Glass, Tina Oldknow, will deliver our keynote address on the topic of the New Glass Review: what makes the cut, what doesn't and why.

The combination of exhibition, keynote address and participating artists is a rare chance to fully experience how kilnforming fits within the larger field of studio glass and how it is annually assessed by some of the glass world's most influential authorities.

Private Reception for BECon Attendees: July 14, 7 - 9 PM

CONTEMPORARY KILNFORMED GLASS

A brief survey of the recent history of kilnformed glass with special emphasis on international master Klaus Moje and the twin developmental currents of US West Coast and Australia's Canberra School of Art. Works from the Bullseye Collection and the inventory of the Bullseye Gallery will be displayed according to method, and then re-explored from a thematic perspective.

This is a condensed version of the traveling exhibition which has toured the Washington DC area and was most recently hosted at Illinois Wesleyan University.

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