STUMP #1 WTG# 23282
blown glass, sand cast glass, and enamels
18"h x 17"w x 16"d
$10,000
Photo Credit: Traver Gallery, http://www.travergallery.com/gallery_artist_details/CUD.aspx
I like Stump #1, on the secondary market at Traver Gallery.
From the Tacoma Museum of Glass website:
"Chance, situation, and humor inform these nontraditional works in glass. Collaboration enlightens and widens the processes of glassmaking, offering the chance to create sculptural works that display an interest in recycling, workmanship, and community, as well as aesthetics. An ongoing dialogue with the place of creation has inspired the works in the Tahoma Series, as created by the art duo dubbed CUD (John Drury and Robbie Miller).
Webster defines cud as "That portion of food brought up into the mouth by ruminating animals from their first stomach, to be chewed a second time." This adopted moniker serves to clarify a conceptual agenda that includes working with recycled material and art created as a residue of the teaching process.
John Drury and Robbie Miller share over fifty years of experience in creating works of art with glass as well as an eighteen-year collaborative effort. Drury and Miller are frequent instructors at the Northwest Coast's Pilchuck Glass School and, to date, have co-taught students from England, Japan, Israel, South Korea, Guatemala, Australia and from all over the United States.
"CUD does what it does not because it knows how, but because it wants to. They are the literal anatomy of bovine revisionism, the aftertaste at the end of history thrown up for our aesthetic rumination." -- Carlo McCormick, critic"
