[PA-NJ Glassblowers] Anthracite, landscapes and glass make for exciting exhibitions at Allentown Art Museum

Thu Oct 4 22:06:46 EDT 2012

This showed up as a Google Alert today.  Glass exhibit in Allentown
Pennsylvania.

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Arts Around Town: 

Anthracite, landscapes and glass make for exciting exhibitions at Allentown
Art Museum

Author: Susan Kalan, WFMZ.com Arts Reporter

Published On: Oct 04 2012 12:41:02 PM EDT

Arts Around Town: Perry - Sunflower

Carole Perry (b 1948), Sunflower Kiss the Sky, 2004, hand-manipulated hot
cane. 

It has been an extraordinary reopening year for the
<http://www.allentownartmuseum.org/> Allentown Art Museum. Just ask Brooks
Joyner, the museum's Priscilla Payne Hurd, president/CEO, who is gearing up
for its first anniversary of the reopening with three major exhibitions
beginning Sunday.

"We can rejoice at our success over the past 12 months," said Joyner,
referring to earlier exhibitions of a salute of Samuel H. Kress with
Renaissance and Baroque old masters from around the country, followed by the
"Who Shot Rock and Roll" photography exhibit from the Brooklyn Museum, and
"At the Edge: The Art of the Fantastic." The two latter shows each drew more
than 23,000 visitors, he added.

Arts Around Town: Kline art

Joyner said the new offerings will be equally compelling with the paintings
of "Franz Kline: Coal and Steel," photographer "Walker Evans & The American
Social Landscape Photographers," and "The Lerner Contemporary Glass
Collection."

He describes Franz Kline (1910-1962) as "one of the most important members
of the American Abstract Expressionists," and the exhibit as one that traces
his early years in the northeastern Pennsylvania coal region to his mature
and individualistic Abstract Expressionist style. Guest curator Robert S.
Mattison, the Marshall R. Metzgar Professor of Art History at Lafayette
College, has prepared approximately 70 original works by Kline from both
private and public collections.

Arts Around Town: Bethlehem graveyard

As for Walker Evans (1903-1975), Joyner said it's "a fascinating exhibition
by one of America's greatest photographers, including some of his
contemporaries. It's a perfect complement to the Kline exhibition." Included
are many landmark images of the Lehigh Valley created in the 1930s, with a
new sensitivity and respect toward his subjects. His influence extended to
the next generation of photographers as they explored America's social
landscape.

More than 70 photographs are from the personal collection of David Sestak,
founder and president of Media Five Entertainment. Chief curator of the
exhibition is Dr. Diane P. Fischer, with assistance from Sestak, Thomas
Shillea, director of art programs at Northampton Community College, and
Santa Bannon-Shillea, fine art representative. The exhibition coordinates
with the ArtsQuest InVision Photo Festival in November.

Arts Around Town: Cribbs Frederico

Joyner said the Lerner Contemporary Glass Collection is on loan to the
museum by Elaine and Leslie Lerner of Allentown, who join with the Art
Alliance for Contemporary Glass in celebrating the 50th anniversary of the
glass art movement. The exhibit includes 21 unique glass sculptures by 15
significant national and international studio glass artists. They include
Lino Tagliapietra, Sidney Hutter, Dante Marioni, and the collaborative team
of Harvey Littleton and Kate Vogel.

Arts Around Town: Powell--Pyronic

The exhibition, which runs through April 28, 2013, also is timed to be
concurrent with the 50th Anniversary of the Studio Glass Movement, which
began in March 1962. It was during a 10-day workshop conducted by Littleton
and Dominick Labino at the Toledo Museum of Art that glass was no longer
thought of as a craft but as an art. Their demonstrations opened the door
for artists in creating glasswork in their own studios. The event coincided
with the rise of postmodernism and artists' experimentation with materials
beyond traditional media.

A fall preview party for all three of the above exhibitions will be held
Saturday from 6 to 8 p.m., at the museum. Special art programs and talks on
the Kline and Evans exhibits, which run through Jan. 13, 2013, have been
scheduled through December with curators, authors, artists and arts
professionals.

For further info:  <http://www.allentownartmuseum.org/>
allentownartmuseum.org

Tony Patti

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