{"id":38265,"date":"2021-10-06T01:00:19","date_gmt":"2021-10-06T08:00:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thejealouscurator.com\/blog\/?p=38265"},"modified":"2021-04-08T10:18:16","modified_gmt":"2021-04-08T17:18:16","slug":"fred-wilson-glasstress","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thejealouscurator.com\/blog\/2021\/10\/06\/fred-wilson-glasstress\/","title":{"rendered":"fred wilson @ glasstress"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thejealouscurator.com\/blog\/?attachment_id=38260\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-38260\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-38260\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thejealouscurator.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/FREDWILSON.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"584\" height=\"3889\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>This is just a\u00a0<em>tiny<\/em>\u00a0bit of the jaw-dropping work of New York based artist\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.fondazioneberengo.org\/artist\/glasstress-artists\/fred-wilson-2\/\">Fred Wilson<\/a>. He is one of several artists featured in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fondazioneberengo.org\/\">Glasstress<\/a>\u00a02021. Now, normally Glasstress happens in Venice, home of all things glass\u00a0<em>{I saw\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/glasstress.org\/my-product\/glasstress-2017\/\">Glasstress 2017<\/a>\u00a0in person, and it was a major highlight of my trip}<\/em>. This year, however, this exhibition of breathtaking glass artworks has crossed the pond and is currently happening in\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.fondazioneberengo.org\/project\/glasstress-boca-raton-2021-artists\/\">Boca Raton, FL<\/a>! The lineup of artists is insane\u00a0<em>{Ai Weiwei, Joyce J. Scott, Nancy Burson, Jimmie Durham, Fiona Banner just to name a few}<\/em>, but I just\u00a0<em>had<\/em>\u00a0to show you Fred\u2019s gorgeous pieces. Here\u2019s a little bit about him:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>Known for his politically charged work that explore issues faced by Africans and African-Americans in past centuries, Fred Wilson makes sculptures that are, first and foremost, beautiful. His Murano glass mirrors are made from onyx Murano glass &#8211; a color never before used for decorative objects. ~ via\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.artsy.net\/artist\/fred-wilson\">Artsy.net<\/a><\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><em><a href=\"https:\/\/bocamuseum.org\/art\/glasstress-boca-raton-2021\">Glasstress<\/a><\/em> was at <a href=\"https:\/\/bocamuseum.org\/art\/glasstress-boca-raton-2021\">Boca Raton Museum of Art<\/a>\u00a0until September 5, 2021. You can also find Fred Wilson\u2019s work via\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.pacegallery.com\/artists\/fred-wilson\/\">Pace Gallery<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is just a\u00a0tiny\u00a0bit of the jaw-dropping work of New York based artist\u00a0Fred Wilson. He is one of several artists featured in Glasstress\u00a02021. Now, normally Glasstress happens in Venice, home of all things glass\u00a0{I saw\u00a0Glasstress 2017\u00a0in person, and it was a major highlight of my trip}. This year, however, this exhibition of breathtaking glass artworks [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3,549],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thejealouscurator.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38265"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thejealouscurator.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thejealouscurator.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thejealouscurator.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thejealouscurator.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=38265"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.thejealouscurator.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38265\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":38270,"href":"https:\/\/www.thejealouscurator.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38265\/revisions\/38270"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thejealouscurator.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38265"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thejealouscurator.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38265"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thejealouscurator.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38265"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}