{SUPERPOSITION} was a juried show of sculptural glass and glass related sculpture held in Seattle WA in June, 2011 concurrent with the Glass Art Society Conference.
Experimentation is an exercise in the virtues of uncertainty.
{superposition} connotes a moment at which uncertainty is so great that it is impossible to differentiate on state of being from another, and we are forced to assume that both are true. This egalitarian approach to existence is a powerful metaphor for the multiplicities of identities and genres inhabited by the works and artists in the show.
JURORS
Jocelyn Prince
Jocelyne Prince exhibits her work in museums and alternative galleries and venues across North America, Asia and Europe. Recent exhibitions/events include: Emanations: Art + Process, Wheaton, NJ; Glory Studies, Urban Glass, Brooklyn; Butoh/Fiasco, Toyama, Japan; Atelier LePrince ReVisited, Illingworth Kerr Gallery, Canada; El Greco ReVisited, Tacoma Museum; andEnacting the Screen, Brick + Mortar Video Festival, Greenfield, MA. In 2014/15 she was awarded the Frazier Award for Excellence in Teaching and a George A. and Eliza Gardner Howard Foundation Fellowship. Prince is a full-time member of the faculty in RISD’s Glass department.
Jin hongo
Jin Hongo is currently th Director of Toyama City Institute of Glass Art, the first city-supported art school in Japan to specialize in glass. He has taught many workshops and lectured internationally. For 25 years Hongo has worked alongside many maestros and artists from all over the world, and his daily teaching experiences have been a strong influence on his work. Hongo's mixed media approach to sculpture is fueled by the excitement he finds in his discoveries and inventions with glass.
Michael Scheiner
Michael Scheiner is known for his provocative and enigmatic sculpture in glass. Since he completed his graduate studies in 1982 he has actively exhibited, lectured and led workshops internationally. Throughout his career he has received numerous awards and fellowships such as the Louis Comfort Tiffany foundation, Ford Foundations and the National Endowment for the Arts. Examples of his work are included in many museum collections world-wide; The Corning Museum of Glasss, Hokkaido Modern Museum of Art, the Renwick Gallery of the National Museum of American Art and New Orleans Museum of Art. Between 1983 and 2004 he served as adjunct faculty in the Rhode Island School of Design Glass Department and as professor in the Department of Formative Arts at Nagoya University of Arts from 2004 - 2012. Currently he is living and working in Central Falls, Rhode Island.
Jack Wax
Jack Wax is a two time recipient of Individual Fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts, was nominated three times for a Tiffany Foundation Grant, was a recipient of an Illinois State Council of the Arts Grant,is a 2007-2008 recipient of both a Theresa Pollack Award and a Virginia Museum of Fine Arts Individual Professional Artists Fellowship. He received his BFA from Tyler School of Art, and his MFA from Rhode Island School of Design. Since 1983 he has taught at a number of Institutions of Higher learning including: Temple University's Tyler School of Art, The Cleveland Institute of Art, Illinois State University, Rhode Island School of Design, the Toyama Institute (Toyama Japan), and the Danmarks Designskole (Bornholm, Denmark). At present he is a full prefessor at the Virginia Commonwealth University's School of the Arts in Richmond, Virginia.At the present time he is represented by Reynolds Gallery.