All of these events are designed to offer the most comprehensive expo-sure to exceptional glass art, learn first hand about the artists who produce them and be able to actually see how they do it. This is a brand new and incredibly exciting offering for the citizens of our county and is all part of the mission of this inspiring new nonprofit.
• Thursday night ‘Meet the Artist Dinner’ is a private sit-down, dinner party limited to only 32 people who will dine in the Center’s upscale gallery and listen to the artist talk about their processes and what inspired them to become a glass artist. They will also have a chance to preview the gallery’s exhibition before its official opening. The cost is one-hundred dollars per person.
• Friday night the center will hold a ‘Gallery Reception & Demo’ for an exhibition of the visiting artist’s work along with two dimensional works curated by the center’s founder, JB Berkow, who has been a gallerist for over twenty years. Admittance to these shows will be free for members of the Benzaiten Center and only $20 for non-members.
• Saturday afternoons our visiting artists will conduct a two to three hour ‘Public Glass Blowing Demonstration’ which will be open and free to the public. These are great opportunities for glass collectors and families from our community to observe first hand how great glass art is made.
• April 28-30, 2016: Marlena Rose
• Thursday, the 28th: Private Dinner 6 – 9pm Click to register
• Friday, the 29th: Gallery Opening 6 – 8pm Click to register
• Saturday, the 30th: Public Demo 4 – 6pm Click to register
• When people first view my work, I’m often told they fell a ‘certain aliveness inherent in the work itself.’ My goal as an artist is to inject life into whatever I can make. Each piece is hand cast from molten glass in a spectacular process of heat and light. In the end, the work has a quality of timelessness reflecting both ancient and modern. They celebrate the unique properties of glass, of transparency, shine and reflection. And because these are cast objects, they hold in their form the memory of the shapes and textures of the materials that formed them; they are fine-grained, rugged or smooth, transparent or translucent, colored or clear. When I cast the sculptures I include in them relics of modern life, interesting objects that have been cast away, industrial waste items that seem to unite present and past. In the end, the completed piece transcends the sensibility of mere time.
Benzaiten Center for Creative Arts, 1105 2nd Avenue South
Lake Worth, Florida 33460
