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Theater

Artist Dana Zámecníková Czech, born 1945

Date1983

DimensionsH: 45.9 cm (18 1/16 in.); W: 67.6 cm (26 5/8 in.); D: 10.2 cm (4 in.)

MediumSheet glass, wire, lead, oil paint

ClassificationGlass

Credit LineGift of Dorothy and George Saxe

Object number

1991.140

On View

Toledo Museum of Art Glass Pavilion (2444 Monroe Street), Glass Pavilion Gallery, 2

Collections

Glass

Published ReferencesTokyo, Japan Glass Artcrafts Association, Glass '84 in Japan (Tokyo, 1984), p. 111 (ill.).

Chambers, Karen S., "Dana Zámecníková: Artist and Magician," Craft International 4, 3 (Jan.-Mar. 1985), pp. 20-21.

Chambers, Karen S., "The Saxe Collection," GlassArt Society Journal, 1986, p. 123 (ill.).

Trapp, Kenneth R., "A Touch of Glass," in San Francisco, San Francisco Craft and Folk Art Museum, A Report, Summer 1987, p. 4 (ill.).

Malarcher, Patricia, "Exhibitions New York," Craft International 6, 2 (Aug.-Sept. 1987), p. 28 (ill.).

Lynn, Martha Drexler, Sculpture, Glass, and American Museums, Philadelphia, University of Pennsylvania Press, 2005, p. 203, 208, repr. (col.).

Page, Jutta-Annette, The Art of Glass: Toledo Museum of Art, Toledo, Ohio, Toledo Museum of Art, 2006, p. 216, repr. (col.) p. 217.

Exhibition HistoryNew York, Heller Gallery, Dana Zámecníková: New Works from Czechoslovakia, 1984 (exh. announcement, ill.).

Oakland, California, The Oakland Museum, Contemporary American and European Glass from the Saxe Collection, 1986-1987 (exh. cat., front cover, p. 41, ill.) (traveled to New York, American Craft Museum).

Toledo Museum of Art; The Saint Louis Art Museum; Newport Beach, California, Newport Harbor Art Museum; Washington, D.C., Renwick Gallery of the National Museum of American Art Smithsonian Institution, Contemporary Crafts and the Saxe Collection, 1993-1995, pl. 59, p. 87, cat. no. 122, p. 210.

Label TextThe “mystery” of theater serves as a metaphor for the universal mysteries of life in the art of Dana Zámečníková. She uses plate glass as a kind of canvas for painted images, executed in oil rather than the more time-consuming and more traditional process of enameling. She layers her enigmatic images to communicate complex layers of meaning and of visual effects, adding metaphorical and actual depth to her work. As Zámečníková explains, “the layers of glass I use are layers of events I experience.”