Carrie Iverson, one of our amazing tenants at American Steel, has won the prestigious Hauberg Fellowship from Pilchuck Glass School. Named for Pilchuck co-founder John H. Hauberg (1916–2002) the fellowship was established to encourage collaboration among a group of outstanding artists.
Often inspired by Pilchuck’s energy and environment, the artists who take part in this twelve-day residency are known for fostering collaboration and exchange within their self-defined group. Visual artists in all media as well as writers, poets, art critics, and curators who want an opportunity to work in proximity to one another for dialogue and exchange are encouraged to submit group proposals with a collaborative concept or theme that makes creative use of Pilchuck’s resources and surroundings.
Carrie’s group is comprised of fellow artists Gay Outlaw, Julie Alland, JD Beltran, Lisa Blatt, and Tracy Grubbs; their theme is “unexpected glass.” Their projects, both individual and collaborative in nature, will explore and reveal the many facets — conceptual and material — that glass has to offer. At the heart of their explorations is the concept that glass, perhaps even despite its properties, is capable of many things unexpected: unexpected shapes, forms, qualities, appearances, uses, and functions.
Individually she plans on exploring glass as an intermediary lens in a series of prints on paper and glass, creating interactions between surfaces. For the prints on paper she will sandblast and engrave float glass to print as glass intaglio plates. She will also experiment with offsetting the glass plate in front of the resulting print, projecting light through the glass so that the imagery on the plate casts a double/shadow on the print. She will pursue a similar idea in printing on glass; tack fusing an image onto both clear and opaque sheet glass and then offsetting the clear glass version in front of the opaque, again casting shadows.
“My current work incorporates both printmaking and glass, often combined into multi-part installations. One of my fascinations with both media is their ability to retain a record of how the piece was created. I tend to approach both processes in an experimental way, letting the properties of the materials suggest and guide the content. Conceptually my work reflects this process of transition – objects in motion, imagery submerged just below the surface, the traces of an explosion. I am interested in examining how evidence is presented, how events are reconstructed.”
Carrie Iverson’s work has has been exhibited internationally, including at the Glasmuseum Hentrich in Düsseldorf, Germany, Art Sante Fe, the Ukrainian Institute of Modern Art in Chicago, and the Chicago Cultural Center. Her work is in the collections of the Art Institute of Chicago, the Museum of Modern Art (NY), and the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago). She has been awarded residencies at the Vermont Studio Center, Glenfiddich, North Lands Creative Glass, and the KALA Art Institute, and is represented by The Bullseye Gallery in Portland, OR.
We love having her at American Steel Studios and are incredibly proud that she has been selected to receive this award. We can’t wait to see what she and the other fellows create.
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