The Museum of Glass (MOG) in Tacoma, Washington is the West Coast’s largest and most active museum glass studio. One of the recent MOG exhibitions was Transparency: An LGBTQ+ Glass Art Exhibition which features works by glass artists from the LGBTQ+ community. The exhibit is a celebration of identity and freedom that showcases the diverse subjects, methods, and styles of the artists.
According to the display:
“Transparency strives to emphasize the importance of being transparent and honest about identity, a hallmark of liberty and creative freedom. The works featured were chosen by the artists themselves, and in keeping with the spirit of self-advocacy and creative self-expression, all of the words that accompany the exhibition are their own.”
Transparency was organized by the National Liberty Museum in Philadelphia. Shown below are some of the pieces from this special exhibit.
According to the display:
“The reason that I am so focused on these new endless mirror pieces is that they create a space that doesn’t exist. Those long five-foot tunnels you see in front of you can’t possibly be real, and yet there they are, stretching impossibly off into the distance. And what lies in these non-dimensional spaces?”
According to the artist:
“My piece, To Signal To Summon, is a sculpture that is ambiguous; it’s an attractive sparkling object, but also a reflective warning. Is it signaling danger, or trying to seduce?”
According to the artist:
“Signs and Signifiers is meant to reference a collection of family photos. Each hand representing a different person, and a different record of lived experience—some young, some older. Each hand has an image in the middle.”
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