Join the Duncan McClellan Gallery for another spectacular Art Walk exhibition “The Space Between”, featuring Glass Sculpture by Pennsylvania artist and Rhode Island School of Design alumni Michael Schunke.
Sunday, November 15th, from noon-1pm, Schunke will demonstrate at the gallery again after that, Join the artists for lunch at the MFA Cafe at 1:30 and then lecture at the Museum of Fine Arts from 3-4pm.
Sponsored by The DMG School Project
Free with MFA admission
A talented draftsman and artist from a young age, Michael Schunke was drawn to glassblowing as a student at the Tyler School of Art at Temple University. Demonstrating a natural affinity with the challenging material, Michael Schunke was encouraged to study Venetian techniques at the Rhode Island School of Design.
Since his early introduction to glassmaking, Schunke has dedicated his life to the pursuit of form and the practice of making. His early influence of drawing and mark-making is visible in his approach to engraving and incorporating fine lines in his distinctive glasswork. A former professor at the Toyama Institute of Glass Art in Toyama, Japan, he continues to teach glassmaking around the world. Schunke has recently been recognized as a resident artist at the Museum of Glass in Tacoma, WA, and the Toledo Museum of Glass in Toledo, OH. His work, both functional and sculptural, is housed in museum collections world-wide.
As a teenager, I began to develop a studio practice rooted in glassmaking. I am dedicated to excellence in craftsmanship, and look to historical Venetian references as benchmarks of craft. While embracing traditional techniques, it is my intention to sustain my practice and intuition in the present. Through physical repetition and personal inquiry, I find the forms and patterns that possess quiet, traditional beauty simultaneously with my intuition and contemporary details, which I call “grit.”
