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Artist Statement:
Ed Pennebaker
Red Fern Glass
Statement:
At a time when many designers/artists leave the crafting of their designs to apprentices, fellow craftsmen, or even a factory style setting, it is rare for the designer to continue as the maker. For me working directly with the glass is a time of zen, a period when I can concentrate on one thing only, the glass, a time to leave the rest of the world behind.
I see my work belonging to a contemporary line of the "decorative arts" that developed from the arts and crafts movement where craftsmanship is of the utmost importance. Striving for the "perfect object" is the goal of the craftsman/designer and working directly with the materials at hand provides the greatest satisfaction for me.
The most important aspects of glassmaking are light, color and form. I want my work to take advantage of the luminous quality of light. Light coming through the glass reveals texture and pattern and casts colors and shadows so the glass work interacts with its environment and becomes a pure visual feast. The jewel like colors of glass, the individual forms of the pieces and the light from within work as a ...
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Artist Exhibitions:
-"A Glass Act 2001: The Prism Collection", Prism Contemporary Glass, Pontiac, Michigan, April-May 2001
-"A Glass Act 2000: The Prism Collection", Function Art, Pontiac, Michigan, April-May 2000
-"Hot & Cool", a traveling exhibition by Exhibits USA of contemporary glass through 2001.
-"The Arkansas Exhibition", an exhibit of Arkansas Artists...
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Artist Reviews:
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Collections:
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Commissions:
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Galleries for Ed Pennebaker:
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An American Craftsman, New York City, New York
Art In Glass, Frederick, Maryland
Artisans Gallery, Lahaska, Pennsylvania
Artisans Collection, Ketttering, Ohio / Artisans, Sarasota, Florida
Easy Street, Annapolis, Maryland
Elizabeth Doyle Gallery, Lahaina, Hawaii/Kapalua, Hawaii
Glass Reunions, Key West, Florida
Lazar's Gallery, Canton, Ohio
Lisa Frick Gallery, Lake of the Ozarks, Missouri
Prism Contemporary Glass/FunctionArt, Pontiac, Michigan
Rivermarket Artspace, Little Rock, Arkansas
Signature, Mashpee, Massachusetts/Boston, Massachusetts/ Westport, CT/ Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts
Zark's, Eureka Springs, Arkansas
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