Bullseye Projects @ Collect 2023: Anthony Amoako-Attah, Heike Brachlow, Emily Endo, Joseph Harrington, Choi Keeryong, Joshua Kerley, Joanna Manousis, Anne Petters

Bullseye Projects returns to Somerset House in London for Collect, the leading international fair for contemporary craft and design, with a presentation of new work by artists Anthony Amoako-Attah, Heike Brachlow, Emily Endo, Joseph Harrington, Choi Keeryong, Joshua Kerley, Joanna Manousis, and Anne Petters. Characterized by diverse and novel approaches both technically and conceptually, this group exhibition showcases the breadth of contemporary glass being made and exhibited in the United Kingdom.

Anthony Amoako-Attah, a finalist for the Brookfield Properties Craft Award and winner of the Collect Artist of the Fair Award in 2022, uses glass to reproduce and reinterpret Kente patterns and Adinkra symbols using screenprinted glass powders. Amoako-Attah's new series, entitled "Take me home," is based on the infamous "Ghana must go" bags. These inexpensive red, white, and blue woven plastic bags became cultural symbols when Ghanaians were expelled from Nigeria. Heike Brachlow continues her complex exploration of color, form, and light in a new group of looping sculptures that play with perceptions. California-based Emily Endo makes her Collect debut with works that combine glass, leather, and horsehair to explore the woven histories of adornment, decoration, and the body. Joseph Harrington uses water and salt to sculpt large blocks of ice that are then cast in glass. Harrington's "lost ice" method captures the dynamic process of erosion, resulting in works that recall the landscapes from which he draws inspiration. Choi Keeryong is an Edinburgh-based artist and educator who strives to provoke "uncanniness" through the ambiguity of what he calls "pseudo- British/Korean or Korean/British" objects. Joshua Kerley is known for inexplicable abstractions whose bright and playful colors belie their delicacy and complexity. Conjured through a novel combination of foaming agents, heat, and glass powders, Kerley's newest works exist somewhere between confectionary and explosive mycelial growth. Joanna Manousis' work balances decadence and impermanence in reflective – literally and philosophically – multi-part installations and sculptures. Often outwardly referencing luxurious domestic and liturgical decoration, Manousis encapsulates symbolic mirrored voids that draw out the tension that can exist between our inner and experienced realities. Anne Petters' poetic fused glass works speak to the capturing, collecting, and recording of the fleeting and fragile phenomena of our lived experience. 

Bullseye Projects explores contemporary glass through collaborations with museums and arts organizations, coordinates the biennial juried competition Tg: Transitions in Kiln-Glass, tours exhibitions, creates and supports educational activities, and promotes the work of innovative kiln-glass artists from around the globe. Bullseye Projects is part of Bullseye Glass, a manufacturer of colored glass for art and architecture based in Portland, Oregon. Bullseye was founded in 1974 by three art school graduates and maintains a strong commitment to research, education, and collaboration with artists.