2008 KIRO TV:
"The Seattle Police Department is hoping to return a large amount of stolen property, mostly blown glass art, to its owners. More than 300 items were recovered from a two and a half year investigation into an organized crime ring.Police said a majority of the items were stolen from art glass galleries and retailers.The SPD has put images of the stolen items on A CD-ROM that is available to the public at the Seattle Police Department headquarters at 610 Fifth Avenue in Seattle. Anyone who believes that any of these items are their property should call the Seattle police at 206-233-2666."
Kiro TV. "Missing Glass Art? Seattle PD May Have It" August 8, 2008. KiroTV.com Accessed April 2, 2010. http://www.kirotv.com/news/17136528/detail.html
2008 Seattle Art Museum:
"SEATTLE, April 10, 2008 – The Seattle Art Museum is launching a new contemporary art exhibition program entitled SAM Next. The program will present a series of three exhibitions each year introducing audiences to emerging or underappreciated artists working in the Northwest, around the United States and internationally.
The first in the series will feature the work of Oscar Tuazon and Eli Hansen and will be on view at SAM Downtown April 19 through October 26, 2008. For SAM Next, the artists will build an architectural fragment in the gallery entitled Kodiak. This structure will allude to another fragment Tuazon and Hansen are building in a remote wilderness location, and the viewer will be called upon to imagine the differences and commonalities between these two fictional places.
The SAM Next opening will be celebrated at SAM Remix on May 2. Tuazon and Hansen will speak at 6:30 p.m. in the Nordstrom Lecture Hall. SAM Remix, an event that occurs every first Friday of the month, features KEXP DJ Kid Hops in the Brotman Forum from 6 to 9 p.m and a cash bar from TASTE Restaurant. The event is free with admission. Tuazon (b. 1975) and Hansen (b. 1979) are brothers from Tacoma, WA, who have been working collaboratively, as well as independently, for several years. Hansen is a practicing glass-blower who works at the Museum of Glass in Tacoma and has apprenticed with well-known artists in the field such as Sonia Blomdahl. Tuazon attended the prestigious Whitney Independent Study Program and also lives part of the year in Paris where he runs a gallery called Castillo/Corrales. Tuazon won the Betty Bowen Award in 2007.
Their recent collaborative projects have revolved around do-it-yourself architectural concepts and utopian, off-the-grid communities. In objects and installations (often utilizing hand-blown glass) their work offers intriguing proposals for new forms and structures. One of their works, Crystal Math (2007) entered SAM’s collection in 2007.
The second exhibition in the SAM Next series will feature Enrico David and will open on November 8, 2008. David (b. 1966) is an Italian artist who has been based in London for many years. David was recently featured in a solo exhibition at London’s Institute of Contemporary Art and has exhibited widely, but this will be his first solo exhibition in the United States. Known for work that combines personal narrative as well as a range of craft, David has created a body of work that is mysterious, idiosyncratic, and yet deeply humane. Ideas of loneliness, vulnerability, and loss coexist in his work with imagery that is also joyous and often theatrical. Sculpture, installation, collage, photography, performance and painting all figure into his wide-ranging work. A major sculpture, Wayne Shire (2006) entered SAM’s collection in 2006.
SAM Next is curated by Michael Darling, the Jon and Mary Shirley Curator of Modern and Contemporary Art.
This exhibition was organized by the Seattle Art Museum with support provided by the Helen and Max Gurvich Exhibition Endowment."
Egan, C. "SAM Launches a New Contemporary Art Program" Press Release accessed April 2, 2010. http://www.seattleartmuseum.org/PressRoom/prRelease.asp?prID=153
2008 Sabina Dana Plasse:
"At the age of 12, Lino Tagliapietra was dubbed a maestro among glassblowers. Tagliapietra is the world's most celebrated living glassblower, and at 76 has created seven new series called "Metamorfosi," which will open at the Friesen Gallery in Ketchum for Gallery Walk on Friday, Dec. 26. The show will continue through Feb. 8.
"There are 33 museum pieces in this show," said Friesen Gallery's Andria Friesen. "The catalog for the show is the only published catalog of Lino's work with a quote by retired glass artist William Morris."
In Italy, "maestro" is a rarely awarded title. Friesen, who is celebrating 22 years of business, has been showing Tagliapietra's work for over 10 years and said it is a great honor to represent him.
"He was awarded the status of "maestro" five years before I was born," Friesen said. "He and Morris are the two best glassblowers in the world and there is no one behind Lino, which is why the Smithsonian is having his exhibition."
Tagliapietra is from Murano, Italy, a world center for glass and glassblowers. He has learned many techniques that have been closely kept to Murano glass artists. There are many layers of glass in all of his pieces and his etchings are perfect. Several of his pieces are constructed with many rods of glass, called cane, and appear as drawings.
"With molten glass you've got to keep moving," Friesen said. "When Lino came to America he revealed the techniques of Italian glassblowing, which the Italians disapproved of. Now, globally, artists and collectors thank Lino for sharing his secrets and consider him a god."
Friesen said Tagliapietra's show "Metamofosi" is seductive and uplifting, and has an ethereal quality to it. It is not a museum show even though all the pieces are museum quality. There is a balance of work and a feel of being able to live with the work.
"I want to create less of a museum environment and embrace a living environment," Friesen said. "I want people to be involved with the work. There are 11 major pieces in this show that are not on a pedestal and there are glass paintings."
Friesen said the Smithsonian is thrilled to know that her exhibition coincides with the "Lino Taliapietra in Retrospect: A Modern Renaissance in Glass" on view at the Smithsonian Renwick Gallery in Washington, D.C."
Plasse, S.D. "Glass artist Lino Tagliapietra to bring ‘Metamorfosi’ to Ketchum." Idaho Mountain Express, December 24, 2008. http://www.mtexpress.com/index2.php?ID=2005124187&var_Year=2008&var_Month=12&var_Day=24
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