Saturday, May 13, 2017
“Sea Discernibly”
Exhibition opening with
This duo of glass artists collaboratively creates whimsical yet content laden cast and blown glass sculptures, occasionally with the addition of found objects.
Their work reflects on human relationships, communication, social networking.
Live jazz from 8-9:30pm
Food truck
Cash bar on premises
Jason Chakravarty is a mixed media, object maker living in Arizona. The majority of his work is cast glass and often incorporates neon for illumination. Glass can be anything; thick, thin, shiny, dull, rough, smooth, transparent, or opaque. It is the only material that can capture light. While material and notably glass are important, his emphasis is within the narrative. His most recent works are semi-auto biographical and reflect on human relationships, communication, and social networking.
Glass is, at once, fragile and strong, beautiful and dangerous, full of movement and static. These paradoxes lend themselves to speaking of conflicting ideas that inevitably accompany each other in the mind and throughout life’s experiences.
Humor, whimsy and imagination are a cathartic aspect of my studio practice that allow me to address more serious emotions from a place of playfulness. In my work, I observe objects from the world around me and convey ideas by identifying aspects of these object that I am drawn to. Color, form or historical meaning become a point of departure and focus while aspects that make these objects live or function in reality, become secondary or completely denied during the creative process. In this way objects from my experience become beautiful, yet un-functional, or are combined in a way to see the paradoxes through which I view the world.
Working with the constant motion associated with hot glass forces me to intuitively engage with the material creating a constant collaboration between the material and myself. This is a connection that happens between my conscience and sub-conscience, my mind and hands, the motion of the material and my own emotions, resulting in a physical object that conveys my essence.
