Glass in the Fourth Dimension
While we live in a three-dimensional world and our brains are trained to see height, width, and depth鈥攎athematicians, physicists, and artists have long considered the fourth dimension and its possibilities for alternative realities. It is inherently intangible and unseeable, so, many describe it as space/time relationship while others relate it to metaphysics or the connection between the mind and reality. Artists since the early 20th century have moved beyond realistic representations of the world toward abstraction, perhaps to visually interpret the fourth dimension.
The plasticity of glass in its molten form has enticed many glass artists to explore non-objective, or abstract forms since the beginning of the studio glass movement in the 1960s. Whether it is intentional optical illusions, or just the natural properties of glass, each artwork in this exhibition suggests something beyond height, width, and depth.
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While we live in a three-dimensional world and our brains are trained to see height, width, and depth鈥攎athematicians, physicists, and artists have long considered the fourth dimension and its possibilities for alternative realities. It is inherently intangible and unseeable, so, many describe it as space/time relationship while others relate it to metaphysics or the connection between the mind and reality. Artists since the early 20th century have moved beyond realistic representations of the world toward abstraction, perhaps to visually interpret the fourth dimension.
The plasticity of glass in its molten form has enticed many glass artists to explore non-objective, or abstract forms since the beginning of the studio glass movement in the 1960s. Whether it is intentional optical illusions, or just the natural properties of glass, each artwork in this exhibition suggests something beyond height, width, and depth.
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