[PA-NJ Glassblowers] Tom Patti Selected as 2015/2016 Artist for Specialty Glass Artist Residency Program Offered by CMOG and Corning Incorporated

Tony Patti gaffer at glassblower.info
Thu Jun 11 21:35:05 EDT 2015


Yes, our names are almost identical.  Funny story (or two) about that (for
another day).

 

This was a Google Alert I just received, pointed me
http://www.glassonweb.com/news/index/26025/ 

 



Announcements


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Tom Patti Selected as 2015/2016 Artist for Specialty Glass Artist Residency
Program Offered by Corning Museum of Glass and Corning Incorporated


http://www.glassonweb.com/news/images/26025_5.jpgPatti Will Experiment with
Patented Glass Recipes from Corning Archives - The Corning Museum of Glass
and Corning Incorporated (NYSE: GLW) announced today the selection of Tom
Patti, known for his body of work comprising visionary architectural
systems, as the 2015/16 Specialty Glass Artist-in-Residence.  The Residency
is a joint program of the Corning Museum of Glass and Corning Incorporated
that supports artists in exploring the use of specialty glass materials to
inform their body of work.

Working in glass since the 1960s, Patti has received international attention
for his small-scale sculptural glass works and large-scale public
commissions, which integrate the aesthetic and technical concerns of glass.
Unlike many Studio Glass pioneers of his generation, Patti did not focus on
traditional glass techniques, but embraced the use of industrial sheet glass
to make small, compacted glass sculptures with a complex inner architecture.
He has also created large-scale installations using an impact-resistant
glass of his own formula that breaks light into its spectral components.

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"The Corning Museum of Glass works hard to be a partner to artists,
designers, and scientists-serving as a laboratory and acting as a catalyst
for creativity-to further the understanding and application of glass," said
Karol Wight, president and executive director of The Corning Museum of
Glass. "Tom's work over the last 35 years has been about exploring and
experimenting with the material of glass, researching different formulations
of glasses and hot-forming techniques and using industrial and architectural
glass as a sculptural medium."

"Corning Incorporated is dedicated to innovation and experimentation with
glass, and we have a long history of collaborating with artists," said Dr.
David Morse, executive vice president and chief technology officer of
Corning Incorporated. "Tom's own experimentations with glass compositions
make him a particularly interesting artist to work with and we are eager to
work with him and see what new discoveries he makes with our material."

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Patti has previously acted as a technical consultant on glass design for
Corning, Owens Corning, PPG, Solutia, SABIC, and Israel Berger & Associates.
He sees his work in materials science as way to inform his artwork. In his
Specialty Residency, which will begin in July 2015, Patti will not focus on
a specific specialty material for artistic use, but instead will explore the
way changes in temperature affect different kinds of glass. He will work
extensively at Corning's research and design facility, Sullivan Park.

"I want to explore temperature ranges not used in the traditional glass
studio," said Patti. "I want to learn from the collaborative dialogue that
will take place with the innovative staff at Corning. For me, the process is
as important as the outcome; my art is a result of the way I conceptualize
and the vision I set for myself as I work. I hope to explore temperature
ranges in glass in a way that both Corning and I can learn from."

About Tom Patti
http://www.glassonweb.com/UserFiles/3(557).jpgPatti's work is included in
the permanent private and public collections worldwide, including The
Corning Museum of Glass, the Museum of Modern Art, the Metropolitan Museum
of Art, the Victoria and Albert Museum and the Louvre. He earned his BFA and
MFA at Pratt Art Institute in Industrial Design and Architectural Theory. In
2012, he was honored as a Pratt Icon. While at Pratt, he was involved with
Experiments in Art and Technology (E.A.T.), a project co-founded by Robert
Rauschenberg to develop collaborations between artists and engineers to
explore the relationship of art to science and technology. Establishing this
investigation as a predominant theme in his work, Patti has continued to
innovate architectural and industrial glass processes entirely unique to his
artwork over the past four decades.

Specialty Glass Artist Residency Program 
Corning Incorporated, which has developed and patented more than 150
specialty glass formulations, provides the resident artist with access to
staff with technical expertise in glass formulation, melting, and forming,
as well as access to specialty materials.

The Corning Museum of Glass provides access to its extensive resources,
including its glassmaking facilities and collection. The resident artist
works closely with the Museum's glassmakers, research scientist, curators,
and other staff to better understand glass and its historical and artistic
contexts.

Patti is the second artist to take part in the residency, which is by
invitation only. The first selected artist was American sculptor Albert
Paley, best known for his large-scale works in metal. In 2014/15, Paley used
Corning Code 7056, a borosilicate glass that was engineered to bond tightly
to a metal alloy called Kovar, and experimented with small-scale sculptural
work incorporating both materials.

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About The Corning Museum of Glass


The Corning Museum of Glass is home to the world's most important collection
of glass, including the finest examples of glassmaking spanning 3,500 years.
Live glassblowing demonstrations (offered at the Museum, on the road, and at
sea on Celebrity Cruises) bring the material to life. Daily Make Your Own
Glass experiences at the Museum enable visitors to create work in a
state-of-the-art glassmaking studio. The campus in Corning includes a
year-round glassmaking school, The Studio, and the Rakow Research Library,
the world's preeminent collection of materials on the art and history of
glass. Located in the heart of the Finger Lakes Wine Country of New York
State, the Museum is open daily, year-round. Kids and teens, 17 and under,
receive free admission.  <http://www.cmog.org/> www.cmog.org.

The Museum recently opened a 100,000-square-foot
<http://www.cmog.org/contemporary> Contemporary Art + Design Wing, designed
by Thomas Phifer. The new wing includes a new 26,000-square-foot
contemporary art gallery building, as well as one of the world's largest
facilities for glassblowing demonstrations and live glass design sessions.




June 9th, 2015
Source:
<http://www.cmog.org/press-release/tom-patti-selected-20152016-artist-specia
lty-glass-artist-residency-program-offered> www.cmog.org

 

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Tony Patti
  
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