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White Light: Glass Compositions by Daniel Clayman

December 15, 2007 - May 25, 2008

Mint Museum of Craft + Design

The Mint Museum of Craft + Design is the first venue to showcase Daniel Clayman's new works. Clayman will speak about his work on January 6, 2008, 3-4:30pm at MMC+D. This event is free with museum admission.

"Daniel Clayman trained as a studio glass artist in private studios and schools across America throughout the 1970’s. Since he received his BFA from the Rhode Island School of Design in 1986, he has pursued the art of cire perdue or “lost wax” casting, creating unique sculptures in glass and bronze. From the opaque to the translucent, these materials alternately serve as sheathes and the sheathed, containers and the contained. From the mid-1980’s onward, he developed a series of organic pod forms, which explored the themes of protective nests and enclosure. His exploration evolved into studies of form and movement, channeled forms, in particular. Here, we see the seeds of his mature style, defined by its increasing refinement of form.

During the new millennium, when “art glass” has become a familiar household term, characterized by color, glitz, and monumentality, Clayman exercises the most severe form of restraint, creating Minimalist forms, which explore “the subtlety and the drama of form and movement,” light and shadow. In White Light: Glass Compositions by Daniel Clayman, Clayman debuts an entirely new body of work. Paring down forms to their absolute essence, he has created an aesthetic defined by spare elegance."

Print Resources Available at The Mint Museums Library

Kohler, Lucartha. Glass: An Artist's Medium. Iola, WI: Krause Publications, 1998. NK5104 .K65 1998. Located at the MMC+D library.

Lynn, Martha Drexler. Sculpture, Glass and American Museums. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2005. NB1270 .G4 L96 2005. Located at the MMC+D library.

Online Resources

Clayman's curriculum vitae from Dane Gallery.
Images of Clayman's work from Habatat Galleries.
Read this review of his 2006 installation "Line, Form, Shadow," from the Providence Journal.
Richard Maschal on Daniel Clayman's White Light exhibit in the Charlotte Observer (December 21, 2007).

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