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Admission for the bearer and a guest to the Opening Night, including the invitation-only First Choice […]

Bruce Metcalf
Jagrabbit, 2004
Painted wood, 5h
Charon Kransen Arts,
New York, NY

Bruce Metcalf, co-author, 20th Century American Studio Craft is internationally known for his jewelry, and his varied use of materials including wood, metals and plastics. His current jewelry is based on a variety of forms, starting with flowers, branches, and leaves. He then combines plant forms […]

Viola Frey
Untitled, 2003
Ceramic and glaze
19 x 30 x 12
Rena Bransten Gallery &
Artist’s Legacy Foundation

At SOFA CHICAGO 2006, Rena Bransten Gallery, San Francisco, will present major ceramic sculptures from the estate of Viola Frey, an internationally respected artist and leading figure in contemporary ceramics. Frey’s work is represented in many public collections including the […]

Kate Hunt
Burnt Flag, 2006
Newspaper and steel
19.5 x 30.5 x 4.75
browngrotta arts,
Wilton, CT

Kate Hunt, renowned for her newspaper, steel and twine sculptures, speaks about her post 9-11 return to Flag sculptures of singed newspaper:
I have worked with newspaper for thirty years. I started making flags with an innocent thought. I remember saying to […]

Adelaide Paul
(Be)Witch, 2005
Porcelain, mixed media
52 x 60 x 22
Garth Clark Gallery,
New York, NY

The exhibition ONE PART CLAY: Ceramic Avant-garde & Mixed Media, a collaboration between Garth Clark Gallery and DEAN PROJECT, has been extended through November 5th at the Garth Clark Gallery, Long Island City.
Mark Dean of DEAN PROJECT (NY, NY) said, “Originally presented as […]

Naomi Shioya
The Galactic Consultation Cast glass
7.5 x18.5 x 17.25
Chappell Gallery,
New York, NY

Japanese glass sculptor Naomi Shioya went through a radical transformation in her thinking and art when she and her husband moved to Marseille, France in 1993 to study at the glass art center, CIVRA.
A 1985 graduate of Japan’s first glass program at Tama University, […]

Delia Brown
Self Portrait (late 18th c.)
Oil on canvas, 90 x 60
DELIA BROWN: SELF
PORTRAITS exhibit
The John Michael
Kohler Art Center

While in Chicago, take a side-trip for the mind to the nationally acclaimed John Michael Kohler Arts Center, a 39-year-old, nationally acclaimed visual and performing arts complex in Sheboygan, Wisconsin. Exhibitions emphasize sculpture, photography, new genres, installation art, […]

Magdelena Abakanowicz
Seated Shoulder, 1981
Burlap, glue
24 x 18 x 22
Mark and Sharon Bloome Collection

Controversy is already brewing about Polish sculptor’s Magdalena Abakanowicz’s public art installation entitled Agora to be installed in Chicago’s Grant Park. 106 nine-foot-tall, cast iron figures are being off-loaded this week in preparation for their installation by Abakanowicz […]

Cecilie Manz
One of a Kind, 2004
Ash, string, paint
19.7 x 19.7 x 27.5
Photo: Jeppe Gudmundsen-Holmgren
Drud & Køppe Gallery,
Copenhagen, Denmark

In her SOFA CHICAGO 2006 catalogue essay, “The Other Kind Of Green: Notes Towards an Ecocriticism of Irish Art and Craft” arts writer Marianne Mays of the Open University in Ireland poses key questions […]

Tina Rath
Tubastaea Coccinea, 2006
Pink ivorywood, mink, peridot, 18k gold
2.5 x 2 x 1.25
Photo: Robert Diamonte

Internationally known jeweler, Tina Rath, Assistant Professor of Metalsmithing & Jewelry at Maine College of Art, speaks about the use of fur in her jewelry:

I began using mink while living in Amsterdam along with other furs - […]

Cindy Hickok
At Cezanne’s Table, 2001
Machine stiched colored thread
7.5 x 11
Material Difference Too,
Special Exhibit at SOFA
CHICAGO 2006

The special exhibit Material Difference Too at SOFA CHICAGO 2006 celebrates the 15th anniversary of Friends of Fiber Art International and is presented in conjunction with a sister exhibition, Material Difference: Soft Sculpture and Wall Works, on view at […]

Gyöngy Laky
Globalization IV: Collateral Damage, 2005
Ash, commercial wood, paint, blue concrete, bullets
32 x 97 x 4
browngrotta arts,
Wilton, CT

Gyöngy Laky’s sculptures, temporary site-specific outdoor works, language pieces and vessels are often composed of orchard debris and tree prunings, screws, nails, wire or non-traditional joinery–food skewers, toothpicks, golf tees. Laky’s thought-provoking works ask what is […]

Bianca Eshel-Gershuni
Brooch, 1991
Mirror, shell, silver, paint, photograph, 24k gold, found objects, and pearls
6 x 4 7/8 x 1 1/2
Courtesy of the artist
Photography: Michael Tropea, Chicago, Illinois

The new Racine Art Museum (RAM) in Racine, WI houses one of the most significant collections of contemporary craft in North America–which once resided at the Charles A. Wustum […]