Tiffany Exhibit at Nevada Museum of Art

Tiffany Exhibit at Nevada Museum of Art

               Tiffany, a name synonymous with fine jewelry and luxury goods displays a fine three part exhibit at the Nevada Museum of Art. The exhibit delivers what one might expect from Tiffany, like their famous stained glass lamps, and a few things that one might not expect as well, such as an incredible gun and sword exhibit that offers a close up look at some of the finest crafted guns and swords in the world. The third part of the exhibit offers a close up look at 7 stained glass windows, titled “In Company With Angels” that were originally installed at the Church of the New Jerusalem in Cincinnati, Ohio.

               Not being familiar with the diversity of products crafted by Tiffany only adds to the surprise of discovering the pure artistic range a company so synonymous with luxury really has. First, Tiffany features 20 lamps manufactured in the early 20^th century by Tiffany Studios, Handel, Durand, and Duffner & Kimberly. The exhibition focuses on the Art Nouveau style and its inspiration drawn from nature. The exhibition also focuses on Tiffany’s intricate copper foil production process used for the creation of these glass lamps, exploring bright colorful glass lamp shades accompanied by full, decorative metal bases.

               Second, the “In Company With Angels” exhibit displays seven stained glass panels of angelic characters of “The Book of Revelations”. These panels are extremely tall and have a presence that demands a second or third look at the intricate use of multi-layered, multi colored glasses and paints. The faces of the angels are simplistic in design but powerful in expression, and the use of backlighting made these panels come to life and seem to float right in front of the viewer.   The church from which these panels come from was taken by eminent domain and demolished for highway construction in 1964. The panel windows were boxed up and stored in various sites for decades until their re-discovery in 2001.

Third, and personally most impressive, is Tiffany’s display of various decorative firearms and swords from the 19^th and 20^th century. Founded in 1837 by Charles Lewis Tiffany, what became Tiffany & Co. commenced business just one year after Samuel Colt registered his designs for revolving pistols and long arms with the U.S. Patent Office. Since then, the paths of Tiffany & Co. and Colt have crossed many times along with other firearm designs from Henry Deringer, Winchester, and Smith & Wesson. The Robert M. Lee Collection is recognized as the finest selection of Tiffany & Co. arms privately owned. The collection of items in this exhibition  include three revolvers, four pistols, one rifle, and one presentation sword; these items are rivaled only by those on display in the Robert M. Lee Gallery of American Arms, at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. The overall craftsmanship in this exhibit is incredibly impressive; the finest attention to decorative detail and form makes it hard for eyes to look away. The exhibit is like an open American history book, a look back to a time when important, powerful men were awarded and gifted with important, powerful symbols of their accomplishments.

Tiffany & Co. delivers a fantastic 3 part exhibit that impresses and stuns, leaving no doubt that Tiffany & Co only creates and displays the finest quality luxury goods in the world.

Erik Burke Lecture Review

Erik Burke Lecture Review-

Traveling all over the world creating art sounds pretty awesome, and it is, according to Erik Burke. Best known as an American street artist, Burke explores the nooks and crannies of towns all over the world and then sets up his own temporary gallery for the public to enjoy. Burke is Reno native and is received well by the locals; people were genuinely excited to see him and hear about his travels, adventures and creations. Starting out using spray paint and public walls, Burke used graffiti as a building block to more thoughtful and narrative based creations. He will often engage and interact the people of the community where he is creating, making them apart of the creative process and finished product; he says it becomes their art too. Burke’s work has a fleeting feeling to it, as though it was created as fast as he could imagine it in his own mind and then he is off to another place, another image. Even though his art seems like a quick thought it still has the tendency to provoke deeper thought.

One highlight of Burke’s lecture that was particularly interesting was a story about a trip he took a few years back, where he and a couple other artists tracked through Europe via bicycles. He documented the whole trip with his video camera and sketchbook, his sketchbook drawings of all the places he slept along his trip was very interesting and well done. The whole reason for the trip was to install a few pieces in a European galley, a first for Burke at that time. As Burke recalls his adventure he lets everyone know that the best part of the trip was getting to the gallery, the process of getting to an end result. It is that mentality that seems to fuel Burke's work, the art is simply the end product of the process, and he is always chasing the process.

Proposal

post graffiti

paintings

2 paintings completed for my current painting class. I am so glad they are done, i just need better pictures of them. but in the meantime these picture will have to do.

post graffiti continued...

more public works.

exploring the ideas of public escapism, where ever you are should be where you want be, dont let reality hold you back.

Post Graffiti

2nd Outing