Dedicant 7

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Object Name: 
Sculpture
Title: 
Dedicant 7
Maker(s): 
Place Made: 
United States, NY, Brooklyn
United States, RI, Providence
Accession Number: 
2006.4.18
Dimensions: 
Overall H: 117 cm, W: 47 cm, D: 19 cm
Location: 
Not on Display
Date: 
1987
Credit Line: 
Gift of the Ben W. Heineman Sr. Family
Web Description: 
Howard Ben Tré’s sculptures are inspired by elements of architecture and industry, such as columns, heavy stone fragments, ancient monoliths, and machine parts. In Dedicant 7 and Dedicant 8, a visual tension is created between the shapes of the sculptures, which are blocky and architectural, and their textured surfaces and luminous colors. A gilded base, as well as bars of carved and gilded lead inserted into the glass mass, transforms these sculptures into altarlike monuments. A sense of ritual also may also be perceived in Dedicant 11, a large, mysterious vessel that is influenced by the monumental stone urns of ancient Greece and Rome.

More Info

Department: 
Postwar and Contemporary
Provenance: 
Betsy Rosenfield Gallery, Former Collection
1987
Heineman, Ben W. Sr. Family, Source
Category: 
Contemporary
Studio Glass
Technique: 
gilding
sand casting
Material: 
glass
brass
lead
wax
gold leaf
Copyright: 
© Howard Ben Tre

Description

Primary Description: 
Sand-cast glass, brass, lead, gold leaf, pigmented waxes.

Exhibitions (3)

From the Fire: Contemporary Glass
Venue(s)
Cameron Art Museum 2017-03-11 through 2017-08-27
The exhibition, organized by the Cameron Art Museum and curated by Holly Tripman Fitzgerald (Chief Curator), will include loans from private collections; the Mint Museum, Charlotte, NC; Chrysler Museum of Art, Norfolk, VA; as well as loans from the permanent collection of the Cameron Art Museum. Opening during the 55th anniversary of the studio glass movement, From the Fire: Contemporary Glass will explore the influence of North Carolina resident Harvey Littleton and the current innovative processes and artists in contemporary glass. The exhibition will include work by Littleton, in addition to other artists, and will be held in the Cameron Art Museum, Brown Wing.
Voices of Contemporary Glass: The Heineman Collection
Venue(s)
Corning Museum of Glass
Contemporary Glass Gallery and Changing Exhibitions Gallery
 
Howard Ben Tre: New Work
Venue(s)
David Winton Bell Gallery

Publications (7)

Voices of Contemporary Glass: The Heineman Collection (2009-09) illustrated, p. 10; BIB# AI78518
Voices of Contemporary Glass: The Heineman Collection (2009) illustrated, title page; p. 69, pl. 6; BIB# 109983
The Ben W. Heineman Sr. Family Collection at The Corning Museum of Glass (Part 1) (2007) illustrated, p. 106; BIB# AI75165
The Corning Museum of Glass Annual Report 2006 (2007) illustrated, p. 13; BIB# AI92696
Artists in Glass: Late Twentieth Century Masters in Glass (2001) illustrated, p. 22; BIB# 68766
Howard Ben Tre: New Work (1993) illustrated BIB# 35408
Contemporary Glass: A Private Collection (1988) illustrated, p. 12; p. 88; BIB# 33000