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About the Artist: Michael Scheiner
Michael Scheiner is committed to the notion that ideas are as important as craftsmanship.
His sculpture uses glass and other materials as a means for thinking visually, giving shape to concepts like progress and direction.
Scheiner has worked as an artist and educator actively exhibiting and teaching internationally since 1982, when he received his graduate degree from Ohio State University.
In 1983, he joined the glass department faculty at the Rhode Island School of Design, where he taught until he moved to Japan in 2004. There, as professor in the Department of Formative Arts at Nagoya University of Arts, he developed and ran the school’s Glass Department for eight years.
Today he is the head of Keer Glass Foundry, a Rhode Island company that specializes in custom glass design and fabrication where he and his team of glassworkers help artists realize their ideas in glass.
The Details
•Title: Sheer Volume
•Maker(s): Michael Scheiner
•Accession Number: 2014.4.1
•Place Made: United States, RI, Central Falls
•Dimensions:
oOverall Dimensions:
Height: 160 cm
Width: 120 cm
Depth: 180 cm
•Date: 2010
•Technique: assembled
•Materials: float glass, clay wash, aluminum
•Credit Line: Gift of the artist
Interpretive Text
What you can’t see in this artwork is as important as what you can. A form is visible in this leaning stack of commercial float glass panels. While living in Japan, Michael Scheiner found a large rock he considered to be perfect. He had the rock cut into thin sections that he traced onto paper. From the paper, he painted the rock sections onto the glass panels with diluted clay, creating a “sheer volume” that floats in the transparency of the glass.
The Studio at 20
The Studio has been a starting point for emerging artists and an incubator for new work by established artists since 1996. To celebrate 20 years, we’re highlighting works in the Museum’s permanent collection created by artists who have taught or who have been artists in residence at The Studio. Pieces by this artistic community can be found in the Glass Collection Galleries, where they are identified by the Studio at 20 symbol.
Day #1, Oct 6th - Swinghouse at CO-OP with Ximena Sariñana (Mexico), The Tender Box (US), and V for Volume (Columbia)
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Reason 213421.1234 why I love Mac (or, hate windows... one of the two). This popped up after the most recent "update" installed on my PC.
Train pour Dong Hoi. Ici un wagon "soft seat" donc à peu près équivalent à ce que l'on a en France (sinon c'est "hard seat, de simples bancs en bois. Plus de 10 heures de train, opté pour un confort relatif pour le fessier...). Ce que la photo ne dit pas c'est le volume sonore !
Les tv diffusent des séries vietnamiennes de qualité disons... discutable..., volume à fond. De temps à autre s'enclenche une musique genre "propagande"suivie d'un discours en vietnamien et, pour que ce soit plus drôle le "contrôleur" annonce les gares en vietnamien dans un micro pourri (ça doit être la même marque que ceux qu'achète la SNCF), le tout sans baisser le volume du reste... Du coup, c'est quasi impossible de piger le nom de la gare, faut rester vigilant ! En somme, c'est pas dans ce train que tu dors le mieux ! C'est toutefois une superbe expérience car il y a peu d'étrangers dans les trains et cela donne un bon aperçu d'une forme de "quotidien". Des genres de "services repas" circulent dans les wagons avec évidemment des menus nettement plus intéressant que nos pauvres sandwiches en France.Riz et petites brochettes de poulet dans une barquette très "fast food". A côté des wc, un immense container avec robinet offre de l'eau bouillante à volonté (ou presque). J'ai compris alors pourquoi je voyais plein de voyageurs avec des nouilles instantanées dans leur sac ou qui en achetaient en gare !