Mathematical, fabulist and naturalist multiples in the icy medium of glass, featuring works by Bennett Battaile, Steven Easton, and Erika Tada, at the Bullseye Connection Gallery from December 16, 2005 to January 14, 2006.
Portland, OR –The Bullseye Connection Gallery is proud to present “Winter Games,” a collection of dream-like, playful glass works from Bennett Battaile, Steven Easton, and Erika Tada on view December 16, 2005 – January 14, 2006.
“I start with math,” says Battaile. “Over the years I’ve learned about some nice visual ideas…I spend my research time tinkering with these ideas, discovering new ones, mixing them together, and wondering…But my constant question is: What does it look like? And if I know what it looks like, I keep probing and combining until I don’t know what it looks like any more, and then finally it’s time to try to make a sculpture.” Battaile, a co-author of the original SIGGRAPH Radiosity paper, is both a mathematician and an artist. A Portland, Oregon resident, Battaile is a frequent guest lecturer and exhibits artwork nationally.
“My work is based on the belief that creativity is at the center of everything positive;thus, the creation of beauty functions both aesthetically and spiritually,” says Easton. “My artistic production is a fusion of myriad elements in an environment where the boundaries between art, science, and religion are blurred.” Easton’s work has been collected by The Corning Museum of Glass in Corning, New York, the Musée des Arts Decoratifs in Lausanne, Switzerland, and the Alexander Tutsek Foundation in Munich, Germany. A Providence, Rhode Island resident, Easton exhibits work both nationally and internationally, most recently in South Korea, France, and Switzerland.
“After I came to the United States I started to realize the importance of my family,” says Tada. “I place special significance on anything that my parents send me or that reminds me of my native country…Through my glass pieces I hope to communicate with the others. The viewers have their own personal memories and experiences, and I hope my pieces cause nostalgia in the viewer for what they have seen and experienced in their own lives.” Tada is currently a graduate student at the Rochester Institute of Technology, in Rochester, New York. She recently won first place at the International Student Exhibition of the 2005 Glass Art Society conference in Adelaide, Australia. Her work has been published in American Craft (USA), The Corning Museum of Glass’s New Glass Review (USA), Vetro (Italy), and Glass Life (Japan).
Download: Winter Games Nomember 9, 2005
- Winter Games Bennett Battaile, Steven Easton, Erika Tada
December16 2005 - January18 2006
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