Friday, June 26, 2009

Anne Bossert featured in new book: 500 Tables


Translations Gallery artist Anne Bossert was recently selected to appear in a new publication entitled 500 Tables: Inspiring Interpretations of Function and Style.
"The work of today's preeminent furniture artists as well as up-and-coming innovators can be found in 500 Tables, a spectacularly diverse juried collection. Andrew Glasgow - Executive Director of the American Craft Council and former Executive Director of The Furniture Society - has selected pieces that reflect classic, traditional, and masterful woodwork along with tables that utilize alternative materials and aesthetic sensibilities." (from inside flap of publication, 500 Tables: Inspiring Interpretations of Function and Style, edited by Ray Hemachandra, Lark Books, New York, 2009.)

Friday, June 12, 2009

Ruth Borgenicht reviewed in the Denver Post


"Rings of fire at LoDo gallery" By Kyle MacMillan
Posted: 06/12/2009 01:00:00 AM MDT

In an art world that can too often seem derivative, collectors, curators and critics are always on the lookout for something fresh and different.

Fitting the bill are the wonderful,loose sculptures of Ruth Borgenicht of Glen Ridge, N.J. — basketlike, mesh works meticulously constructed of hundreds of interwoven rings of salt-fired stoneware. Read more