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Summer 2000
Robin Stanaway - Project/Reflect
A
nationally-recognized glass artist, Robin Stanaway lives and works within
the central Pennsylvania area. The exhibition will act as a fifteen-year
survey of the artist's work.
The museum has never featured a room-size, site-specific installation in its main galleries, and the Stanaway exhibition will provide an opportunity to do so. The exhibition will transform the museum space into an "environment" and provide us an opportunity to envision our exhibition space in a remarkably new manner.
Stanaway
will mount a site-specific installation in one of our main galleries.
It will include hundreds of clear glass forms hung from the ceiling and
running the length of the room. The glass is carefully lit so as to project
brilliant patterns and shadows upon tile walls. The viewer walks through
and interacts with these shadows, which the artist describes as "energy
and metaphysical presence captured in light."
In a second of the museum's galleries, Stanaway will suspend a smaller piece and install several floor-mounted works, all of which are lit so as to cast shadows across the wall, floor, and ceiling. The suspended piece in this gallery presents the idea of "forced perspective." The glass forms (of which there are dozens) in this piece are created in sizes that gradually increase from one end to the other. When standing at the short end of the piece, all of the glass forms appear to be the same size. This optical illusion reflects the artist's interest in the act of perception and presents a link between art and science.
The Stanaway exhibition will create an unusual environment in which to meditate, reflect and communicate. The exhibition will expose our community to the type of projects that are a significant element within the world of contemporary art.