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Artist Statement:
"As a child, do you remember
the joy of opening a new box
of Crayolas? I certainly do.
I loved their fragrance and
the way the beautiful colors
vibrated, line up row by row.
I could hardly wait to use
'Magenta' or Periwinkle Blue.
Perhaps those early memories
influenced my...
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Artist Exhibitions:
Opening Fall 2009
"Inaugural Exhibition Florida
Museum of Women Artists,"
Deland,
Florida
"Invitational," NW Florida
State College Fine Arts
Center,
Niceville, Florida
2009 Exhibitions
"5 Rings of Passion," Florida
State Univesity
MoFA,Tallahassee, FL
"Pinnacle," national juried
exhibition, Tanner Foster
Gallery on the
Florida A & M Campus,
Tallahassee, FL
"Allegro...
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Artist Galleries:
Kittrell/Riffkind Art Glass,
Dallas, Texas
Bender Gallery, Asheville,
N.C.
LeMoyne Center for the Visual
Arts Gallery Shop,
Tallahassee, FL
Signature Gallery,
Tallahassee, FL
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Collections:
Public:
The Florida Department of
State, State Capitol,
Tallahassee, FL
Private:
Provided for serious
inquiries...
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Commissions:
Coming Soon!
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Published: April 29, 2007
Her canvas is glass
Terrie Corbett's work will be part of a show at the Capitol
By Kati Schardl
DEMOCRAT STAFF WRITER
There is magic in glass.
It's an ancient and elemental magic, one that governs the mysterious process by which earth mates with fire and becomes a chemical contradiction - a rigid liquid.
For that's what glass is - moments of fluid movement suspended in the amber of alchemy. The substance of frozen motion in turn captures light and then releases it - refracted, reflected, transformed, magnified.
Glass can be as seductive as a veiled courtesan and as transparent as a baby's gaze. Heft a hunk of glass in your hand - feel its weight and the coolness that holds a whisper of its birth in the furnace. Hold it up to the morning light and even the tumbler that held your orange juice is a mundane yet noble miracle born from the first accidental fusion of flame and silica.
Terrie Corbett is intimately familiar with the magic and mystery of glass. As an artist, it's her medium of creative expression. Corbett is mounting "A Glass Act," a show of local glass artists that opens May 16 and runs through Aug. 2, in the gallery on the 22nd floor of the Capitol.
"We're trying to show the diversity of glass (in the exhibit), from its concept, design, technique and execution to its final resolution," she said. "We want to show a little bit of everything.
"There'll be everything from glass worn as adornment to decorative elements such as stained-glass windows and room dividers."
The light-filled aerie of art at the top of the Capitol is the perfect venue for such an exhibit. And it harkens back to Corbett's own initial attraction to glass.
"When I was 11, I went on vacation in North Carolina with my parents," she said. "They gave me some money to buy a souvenir, and I bought a bottle of broken glass chips. I loved the colors.
"You know when you open your first box of Crayolas and that smell wafts out? I love that first whiff. That same thing happened when I saw the glass sitting on the shelf at an outdoor exhibit with the sun shining through it."
Corbett's glass fascination remained dormant while she went on to study painting. She met and married Chuck Corbett, a professional musician and computer-systems analyst, and continued to paint. When the couple moved to Tallahassee, Terrie met Pat Berger, an artist who made fused-glass jewelry.
"I loved his work and bought some of his pieces," she said. "That was the spark."
Corbett took a couple of glassmaking classes. Chuck joined her. Now both have become accomplished glass artists with distinct styles but a shared love of the medium.
"Some artists hit glass with sand, some people throw it in a kiln and melt it out, and some melt out elements to put in other pieces," she said. "Some will tumble the glass to get that frosted look, and some will manipulate it with a torch.
"My husband will lay the glass up on little rafters in the kiln and let it run."
Corbett's own glass evolution has led her full circle as an artist.
"I started out mainly doing the traditional kiln firing, where you cut the glass and layer it (according) to your design," she said. "(But) I missed the expressive experience I got from painting. Now I use high-fire enamels that you can apply with brush or palette knife. I've come back to painting."
Through the looking-glass
Glass is an exquisite conundrum with origins cloaked in both legend and science.
The Phoenicians used it to glaze pottery. In Mesopotamia, glass was used to make beads and other ornaments. Egyptians excelled at glassmaking and used the material to make sinuously shaped vases and other objects, including beads so beautiful they were valued - especially the blue ones, which were believed to have protective properties - more highly than gold.
The Roman Empire was as greedy for glass as it was for gold. As it spread its military might, it also dispersed techniques for making glass throughout Europe and the Far East. Artisans in Italy, France, Spain, Germany, England and other countries developed distinctive - and often jealously guarded - methods of making and styles of glass.
The art was imported to the New World, where glass became an element in the Industrial Revolution. It became both utilitarian and artistic in the workshops of Louis Comfort Tiffany. In the studios of such contemporary artists as Harvey Littleton, it became a means of pure expression.
Most people, when they think of glass as art, see an artisan wearing a heavy, protective apron and blowing a clear, molten bubble at the end of a long pipe. Modern glass blowing, or hot glass, masters such as Dale Chihuly - who has exhibited in Tallahassee - are the rock stars of the glass-art world.
But glass artists employ other means to achieve their lustrous ends. Some - such as the Corbetts - do warm glass work, which uses a kiln to fire and mold the medium. Others focus their artistic intent on cold glass, shaping, etching, cutting and manipulating it at room temperature with saws, sandblasters and other tools.
Corbett wants the upcoming exhibit at the Capitol to give an overview of the myriad ways in which glass lends itself to artistic expression.
"There's so much you can do to a piece of glass to change it completely," she said. "I'm hoping through this exhibit to let people see the wide array of ways artists can work with glass."
If you go
What: "A Glass Act," showcasing the work of 16 local glass artists
When: May 16-Aug. 2. Gallery hours are 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. Monday through Friday
Where: 22nd Floor Gallery, the Capitol
Cost: Free
Contact: 245-6470
Participating artists
Darcy Abbott
Chuck Corbett
Terrie Corbett
Bob Derwick
Tammy Derwick
Susan Frisbee
Jaye Houle
Budd Mellichamp
Fae Mellichamp
Carol Nahoom
Lesley Nolan
Corky Reynolds
Bob Rubanowice
Lisa Ruark
Lee Simmons
Kathy Wilcox
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Cultural Resource Commission in Tallahassee, FL October 2004
Terrie Corbett, a glass artist, was one of three local artists to receive a $1000.00 artist enhancement award from the Florida Department of State and the South Florida Cultural Consortium.
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