Convergence
Convergence
Artist
Brian Corr
(American, born 1976)
Date2012
DimensionsH: 35/14 in. (89.5 cm); W: 35 13/16 in. (91 cm); Depth: 8 1/4 in. (21 cm)
MediumKiln formed, water-jet cut, constructed and cold-worked translucent white glass
ClassificationGlass
Credit LinePurchased with funds from Helen Brooks in memory of Mayme and Rudolph Luedtke
Object number
2014.16
Not on View
DescriptionTwo square sheets of translucent kiln-formed glass are bent on their vertical axis into a curved shape and adhered at their vertical edges to form a narrow standing sculpture with lenticular cross-section. Off-set semi-circular areas of denser opacity, due to surface grinding each panel, form two bisecting circles when viewed frontally.
Label TextA Colorado native currently working in Australia, Brian Corr uses the manipulation of light and shadow on a large scale to invoke a sense of profound wonder at the world and our existence within it. Here, he has bent two sheets of translucent white kiln-formed glass into a curved shape, allowing light to enter the top of the sculpture and illuminate the two semi-circular forms that are ground into the interior surface of each panel. When viewed from the front, these converge as two bisecting circles seemingly aglow with inner radiance. Corr likens this process of kiln-forming, cutting, grinding, and constructing to “glass carpentry.” Through its simple elegance, Convergence conveys transcendence.Comparative ReferencesSee also Cummings, Keith, Contemporary Kiln-Formed Glass: A World Survey, Philadelphia, University of Pennsylvania Press, 2009 (unpublished).
about 575 BCE
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