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Indepth Arts News:
"Tom Philabaum: Glass Pioneer"
2010-05-08 until 2010-07-18
Kentucky Museum of Art and Craft
Louisville, KY,
USA United States of America
The Kentucky Museum of Art and Craft, located at 715 West Main Street, is pleased to present Tom Philabaum: Glass Pioneer from May 8 to July 17, 2010. This intimate exhibition will feature a selection of new pieces from his most recent body of work – The Rock Series. The Rock Series came about by exploring shape-making techniques with glass whose consequent was not a vessel. Through investigation into forms from nature, he conceived of sculptures composed of many parts or fragments to create a whole. Some pieces have scavo surfaces, while others celebrate bright color combinations. The precarious notion comes from the fact that the “rocks” are faceted and laminated in seemingly gravity defying positions.
Tom Philabaum studied glass under Harvey Littleton and Eriks Rudans at the University of Wisconsin. He built his first glassblowing studio in 1975 in downtown Tucson, and opened a gallery in 1982. The following year, 1983, the Glass Arts Society (G.A.S.) conference took place in Tucson, with Tom as the liaison for the local glass community. In 1997, the G.A.S. conference returned to Tucson with Tom as Co-Chair, and Philabaum Studio & Gallery again being a major venue for demos and exhibitions.
From his studio in downtown Tucson, Philabaum has constantly expanded his body work by using a broad array of techniques, including kiln casting, fusing, and slumping. Often looking to nature for inspiration he has been inspired by topics as diverse as microscopic cell and tissue studies of plants and animals, reptilian design motifs and the Perseid Meteor Showers.
This exhibition is being held in conjunction with the Glass Art Society 40th Annual Conference, which will take place in Louisville June 10 – June 12, 2010.
Tom Philabaum: Glass Pioneer is generously sponsored by Art Alliance for Contemporary Glass, PNC, Michael J. Ellis and Anthony L. Head, Augusta and Gill Holland, Adele and Leonard Leight, and Bonnie and John Roth.
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