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‘Ii~1.~iiI \J~1 ~~4l ~ Artists Discuss Complicity in a Changing Climate Jaime Guerrero Confronts Migrant Detention Sally Prasch Navigates Art SS and Science ;~ ~T1à-~ ~ ‘~ass Art Quarterly \ Ii’ The De la Torre Brothers Read the Riot Act I )JJ~r COVER Judith Schaechter: / — The Raw Made Radiant _c -~ I I (I 4l~ ~ / ‘a.. ‘4, 6~ ‘ \‘ 1• e.. F ~, ,~ :4,.. -6’ . - US $1~ I Canada $12 Ic- ~:~I ,,.~ 0~ Display until June 30,2020 / • ‘30 ~0 . No. 158. Spring~O2Q~~ ~Ih •‘• e /7 A /~: ~ Jaime Guererro, Children Detained (details), 2017. Blown glass, chain-link fence. H 72, W 144, D 96 in. PHOTO~ CESAR CORONA contents No. 158. Spring 2020 departments features 8 editor’s letter BY ANDREW PAGE 18 The Raw Made Radiant BY ANDREW PAGE 10 hourglass A Cuba trip co-organized by a museum in With a major museum retrospective and a ravishing new L.A. offers a front-row seat to the relighting ofHavana’s body ofwork, Judith Schaechter reaps the rewards of a neon landscape; Lino Tagliapietra debuts freestanding career rejecting hierarchies and bringing a wildly imaginative “Totem” works at Palm Beach art fair; Charlotte Potter personal vision to light. Kasic returns to Virginia to take on newly created position 28 Burn Rate BY ALEXANDER CASTRO at the Barry Art Museum; Haystack wins $4 million Working with an energy-intensive material, glass artists Windgate gift to endow its campus preservation are modifying their practices to both address climate change 54 reviews Liza Lou at the Whitney Museum, New York; and limit their complicity. the Museum of Glass permanent collection, Tacoma; 34 Boundaries Broken BY JOHN DRURY Joanne Greenbaum at Rachel Uffner Gallery; New York; A conversation with Einar and Jamex de La Torre, the Fred Wilson at Pace Gallery, New York fraternal collaborators who shuffle the visual icons offolklore, 59 urbanglass news Thank you to our incredible individual pop culture, religion, and current events as they incorporate donors and institutional supporters lenticular printing and outrage at the state ofpolitics into new work. 64 reflection BY PAMELA KOSS In Memoriam: Checco Ongaro (1929-2020) 42 CrossingBorders BY D WOOD The glass journey of Mexican-American artist Jaime Guerrero 48 HeartofGlass BYSHANEFERO Rejecting labels and embracing community; Sally Prasch has proven that accomplishment is the best rebuttal to injustice. ON THE COVER Judith Schaechter, MurderedAnimal, 2019. Stained-glass light box. H 28,W 28, D 3 in. COURTESY THE ARTIST hourglass ‘rrrflrvr r’ not be falling back on the sexy hot-glass demo, which, we have all seen, can be wildly compelling! It’s an exciting opportunity to think more broadly about the ways in which viewers can have interactive and participatory experiences with art—across disciplines. The collection itselfranges from paintings and sculpture to antique e dolls and automatons: There’s a lot ofterritory to explore! q GLASS Do youforesee yourselfcollaborating with yourformer colleagues at the Chrysler, or do you see this new position as something separate? KASIC As an artist, my practice is about connecting people, and my role here at the Barry is simply a continuation ofthat. I wifi absolutely reach out to my colleagues at the Chrysler, across the ODU campus (everything from the planetarium and oceanography departments to costume design and theater), and throughout the region/nation. My role is to catalyze and foster relevant ii-1’.’~ ~ conversations, connecting seemingly disparate constituencies to engage with our remarkable collection. —ANDREW PAGE EDUCATION Haystack wins $4 million Windgate gift to endow its campus preservation pnvvp An architectural landmark perched on a granite cliff on Deer Island, Maine, the Haystack Mountain School of Crafts has played an outsize role in the history of glass art, hosting classes and workshops by Harvey Littleton in the early stages of Studio Glass. Dale Chihuly both studied and taught here, and clearly was THE PATH inspired by the dramatic and rugged surroundings to start Pilchuck in the forests ofWashington State. Added to the National Register of Historic Places in 2006, the Haystack campus was designed in 1960 by noted architect Edward Larrabee Barnes. Using local PARADISE materials such as cedar shingles, and with an extensive wooden Ju€lllth Scha©chter’s walkway fostering a sense of connection, the design won the Staine~=GIass Art Twenty-Five Year Award from the American Institute ofArchitects in 1994, a rare honor shared by fewer than 50 buildings. Recognizing both the importance and the challenge of preserving the landmark FEBRUARY ~6 — MAY 24 campus in a windswept coastal environment, Haystack was recently gifted a $4 mfflion grant by the Windgate Foundation. The Lead support is provided by the Henry Luce Foundation with additional funding from the Gallery Council of the largest gift in the school’s history, the money will be “permanently Memorial Art Gallery, the Rubens Family Foundation, Pamela restricted, generating operating support ofthe ongoing preservation” Miller Ness and Paul Marc Ness, Corning Incorporated ofthe unique Haystack Foundation, and the Art Alliance for Contemporary Glass. The exhibition is also supported in part by an award from the campus, according to the National Endowment for the Arts. official announcement of thegift. HENRY FOUNDATIONLUCE S ~i!! — —ANDREW PAGE LUIIA An aerial view of the Haystack MAfl Mountain School of Crafts, where MEMORIAL ART GALLERY the buildings nestle in the trees 500 University Avenue Rochester mag.rochester.edu and overlook the Atlantic Ocean. I I GLASS QUARTERLY NO.158 17 N -~ ~ f3 I 0’ I, ~ (%~ The Mogp~e 2019. Stained-glass light box. H 224, W 42,03 in. COURT SR Cl AIRT Oil GAITER? TORI. The King of Maggots, 1983. Stained glass. H23,Wl3in. COLLECTION PRIVATE t \ ~ ~ I ~ b~-b~ b~. ~ ~ ~ t~ISJ:~. he Raw ,riiA ~ fr - ade ~ i,_.~_ ‘1 -C / ~ ~ .~ • adiant ~ :~ h .., ~. ;h~ With a major museum retrospective and a ravishing new body of work, ~ ~ / I’ Judith Schaechter reaps the /~, ‘&r~ ~ ~ I . — -‘( ~A’b. hb.b~ I rewards of a career rejecting ,,~I ~ ~ ~ r~, hierarchies and bringing her wildly p~’ ~ ‘ ~ •h~ I imaginative personal vision to light. • 1~•; }I~ ~ ~,• ~I BY ANDREW PAGE :~;~ b:~1 ~ ~ ~ ~hb. ~ Jilt ~UHItlIeJ. 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Yet when she was accepted to 1USD, - aa.’~r.iw k she was consumed by a gnawing fear that her figure drawing wasn’t -, ‘S e4~ good enough. “I was constantly having people saying, ‘Your work •~ ‘%..(~.Z..:- H looks stylized;” she remembers. “They’d tell me, ‘You have to get rid .~ p -r1~J 5,3. ofthese distortions.” She honed her ability to render realistically >~s~a, through intense practice, and a figure-drawing class at 1USD perfected it, but then she struggled with another issue as a painting ~ ~k ~ ‘~s_,, -i~~4 y) ~ major—what to do with a blank canvas? G ‘k~I •- -b “Painting was gravitas,” she explains. “Even though I didn’t take ul’ ( ..~‘Nf .,~ r ~A ~~‘>ojjs? ~ t ,—.A —- ‘“ ‘~ ‘ - / anything seriously as a teenager, a part of me knew art was very, very serious, so I was paralyzed with fear and couldn’t function at ~tnV.~~a )J) 4~5~ $%.~ ~ all as a creative person. I was so busy trying to figure out how to b Rape Serenade, 1990. Stained glass. H 22, W 33 in. a genius, I didn’t know what to palnt!” COLLECTION PRIVATE It wasn’t until Schaechter casually enrolled in an elective stained-glass class that something clicked. “I knew a lot about art It’s not a stretch to include late 20th and early 21st century history, and it clearly did not include stained glass at all!” she contemporary artist Judith Schaechter among these major exclaims. Completely unintimidated by this particular medium, innovators in the field. Working alone in her home studio, she she began to turn for imagery to her voluminous sketchbooks, has single-handedly advanced the form’s expressive possibilities, where she archived the constant doodling she’d begun in her producing highly personal works that expand on a process Ireland’s childhood. Cocky (“I thought stained glass was for idiots!”) and Harry Clarke developed in the 1880s, stacking layers to create working from the free-associative drawings that tapped into her figures with painterly shading and complex tonality; achieved subconscious, something profound clicked.