Shot #10 / Dancing James

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Object Name: 
Vessel
Title: 
Shot #10 / Dancing James
Maker(s): 
Place Made: 
United States, NY, Brooklyn
Accession Number: 
2006.4.145
Dimensions: 
Overall H: 39.4 cm, W: 40.2 cm, D: 16.7 cm
Location: 
On Display
Date: 
2006
Web Description: 
Semmes is an installation and performance artist who works primarily with textiles, but she has recently included ceramic and glass in her projects. This is one of a series of glass vessels that have a strong tactile quality. The knobby glass is pulled and stretched into shape, almost draping and flowing like fabric. With these pieces, Semmes examines the concept of glass as a dynamic solid, as a material in which motion may be arrested.

More Info

Department: 
Postwar and Contemporary
Provenance: 
Shoshana Wayne Gallery, Source
Color: 
colorless
Technique: 
glassblowing
hot-working
Material: 
glass
Inscription: 
Beverly Semmes 2006 SHOT #10
signature
: 
Engraved On underside of base. in script
Copyright: 
© Beverly Semmes

Description

Primary Description: 
Colorless glass; blown, hot-worked. Unique, slumping cylindrical, vessel-like shape with two handle-like attachments.

Exhibitions (2)

CA+D Reopening 2020
Venue(s)
Corning Museum of Glass
2020 refresh of the Contemporary Art and Design galleries after the deinstallation of the 2019 temporary exhibition, "New Glass Now".
Favorites From the Contemporary Glass Collection
Venue(s)
Corning Museum of Glass
Changing Exhibitions Gallery
 

Publications (2)

Contemporary Glass Vessels: Selections from the Corning Museum of Glass (2015) illustrated, p. 25, 188-189 (fig. 35, plate 71); BIB# 149403
Recent Important Acquisitions (2007) illustrated, p. 121; BIB# AI75166