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ModernLuxury.com: January 23, 2012
The "Sixth Annual Stars of Design Awards" invitation.Sixth Annual Stars of Design Awards Announcement
When: February 1, 2012 5:30 PMWhat: On Wednesday, Feb. 1, 2012, Design Center of the Americas (DCOTA) and Charles S. Cohen, Owner, CEO and President of Cohen Brothers Realty, will shine a spotlight on the design world's leading professionals with the Sixth Annual Stars of Design Awards. A ceremony and reception will be held on day one of the Design Center's two-day WinterMarket in honor of the design luminaries, at which time guests will celebrate with live music, performances, hors d'oeuvres and beverages courtesy of 42 Below, Alacrán Tequila, Mandarine Napoléon and Société Perrier.
The 2012 Stars of Design Award Honorees are:This year, DCOTA will add a new facet to its Stars of Design Awards, the "Stars on the Rise" category, which will honor five designers forty years of age or younger, who have already made a significant mark in the design world.
The 2012 Stars on the Rise are: Alison Antrobus, Eric Winnick, Joe Fava, A. Keith Powell and Donanne Ramos.
Established more than a decade ago at Cohen's Pacific Design Center in Los Angeles, the Stars of Design Awards honors professionals who have attained recognition in various fields of design. Selected by a panel of industry leaders in the fields of art, design, media and beyond, the 2012 Stars of Design Award recipients are distinguished in their careers and well respected by their community in the design categories of interior design, architecture, graphic design, product design, landscape design, photography, art and lifetime achievement. These creative professionals are being honored for their significant achievements and contributions in their respective fields with special recognition of their talents, ideas, creativity and business savvy.
Press Release: December 29, 2010
The Frost Art Museum Welcomes Henry Richardson's Tikkun
Monumental Chiseled Glass Sculpture on Loan to the Sculpture Park at Florida International University.
Miami (December 29, 2010) - American Master glass sculptor Henry Richardson's Tikkun ("Healing the World") will be on view at the entrance of the Frost Art Museum at Florida International University beginning Tuesday, January 24th, 2011. The approximately 5000-pound, 6-foot diameter chiseled glass orb is on special loan courtesy of his gallery following its appearance in the First Edition of the Miami-Miami Beach Sculpture Biennial.
Tikkun also reminds viewers of FIU's location in the global city of Miami. Tikkun's color recalls the blue green waters that surround Miami and serve as a medium for interconnecting the city with the rest of the world. Constructed of hundreds of individually chiseled pieces of glass fused together to form a massive crystalline whole, Tikkun invokes both the fragility of our tropical environment and the strength of our diverse community. Made of commercial grade glass, used in the construction of hurricane-resistant windows for residential and commercial buildings, Tikkun serve as a metaphor for technology's role in building a safer, more secure world.
John Fairbanks, Emeritus Curator of the American Decorative Arts and Sculpture Department at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, has described Tikkun as a "masterpiece." "The visual impact of this sculpture is almost overwhelming because of its size and material composition. The sphere towers over the audience, yet the transmittance of light through the glass prevents the sculpture [from] assuming the visual mass of a solid object. Technically, the construction of the sculpture is astonishing."
The sculpture's inspiration is the Hebrew phrase Tikkun Olam translated as "repairing the world." According to Hebrew oral tradition, the material world was infused with Divine Light at the creation of the universe. As our world has evolved it has become broken and the light has scattered; the great task of humanity is to reconstruct the unified light present in the beginning. When any one person engages in helping their community, that person becomes part of a collective force that mends the world. The phrase has come to connote social action and the pursuit of social justice. Global Learning for Global Citizenship is FIU's roadmap for enabling every student to act as an engaged, global citizen.
Tikkun complements the exhibitions opening during Target Wednesday After Hours on Wednesday, January 26, 2011 including Gran Torino: Italian Contemporary Art; My Eyes Have Seen by Robert Farber; The Tale of the Unknown Island by Esther Villalobos and Mar Solis; As of 24-03-07 by Maria Brito and Women in Motion: Fitness, Sport, and the Female Figure in the Wolfsonian-FIU Teaching Gallery at The Frost Art Museum.
Poder 360.com: December 4, 2010
The healing orb, "Tikkun," by Henry Richardson, part of the Miami Sculpture Biennial on Biscayne Boulevard.Miami basks in an abundance of world class art and design
"Under glorious sunny skies, Miami is experiencing another record-breaking Art Basel 2010 and Design Miami on Miami Beach (Dec 2-5). But keep your eyes out for attractions all over town - including some magnificent sculptures on Biscayne Boulevard."
By Poder 360°
Art Basel 2010 in Miami has gotten off to a strong start with big crowds, packed hotels and some major art sales thrown in.
One of the big sales so far was Les Fiancés, the 1944 work by Wilfredo Lam, which was one of several Cuban masters on show at the Miami-based Cernuda Gallery, which made its first appearance at Art Basel. Gallery owner Ramon Cernuda (in photo standing in front of Les Fiancés) says the work was sold to a local Cuban American collector. "He's a supporter of public art so if a museum wants to exhibit it he won't have a problem loaning it out."
"This is a historic sale," said Howard Farber, a New York collector of Cuban contemporary art and who has a foundation to create awareness of Cuban culture (CubanArtNews.org).
Farber mareveled at the collection of works on show at Cernuda's gallery. "This is not a gallery show; this is a museum show," he said.
Among the many extraordinary works on show we liked the Sound Suits made from buttons, as well as the larger-than-life 'Brain Trap' man on a stool with a magnifying glass, as well as the Cowboy and cactus at the Tony Shafrazi gallery, and the bronza Canine Construction at the Kukje Gallery.
At Design Miami we liked the wooden furniture at the Seomi gallery, and the new Audi concept car, the spyder 'E-tron', which is due to start production in Europe next year. It's a hybdrid that also runs on clean diesel that can do 106 miles per gallon.
While most of the attention is on the gallery exhibits at the Miami Convention Center, there lots more to see at Design Miami, and the fringe shows, inclusing art Miami.
Don't miss the opportunity to take in the astonishing collection of sculptures on Biscayne Boulevard in downtown including works by some of the most important names in modern and contemporary sculpture including Bernard Vernet (France), Jose Bedia (Cuba), Rufina Tamayo (Mexico), Fernando Botero (Columbia), Olafur Eliasson (Denmark), Henry Moore (UK), Isamu Noguchi (Japan), Cang Xin (China), and Henry Richardson (USA).
This is one of the finest collections of contemporary sculptures I have ever seen," Richardson told Poder.
The Miami/Miami Beach Sculpture Biennial runs through January 15, 2011, and most of the pieces were assembled by Miami gallery-owner, Gary Nader. The works of fifty artists will be displayed including the exceptional piece from Henry Richardson TIKKUN (Healing the World).
The 5000-pound, 78-inch diameter, chiseled glass sculpture was inspired by the Hebrew phrase “Tikkun Olam” which means: repairing the world. The giant orb is made from half-inch sheets of plate glass, layered in rings and shaped with a hammer and chisel, befor being fused together with a transparent bonding agent. Richardson says the fusing of the fractured pieces represents the healing of a broken world. It will go on display next year at FIU's Frost Museum, and will serve as a symbol of the university's global citizenship program.
Richardson, who is based in New York, is a sculptor who commits himself to cold glass as the starting material for all of his sculptural works; namely, plates of commercial-grade glass used in the construction of windows for residential and commercial buildings. That makes him an especially appropriate sculptor for South Florida where the tensile strength of hurricane-proof glass are a key element of the Miami skyline!
Several sales at the Gary Nader Gallery hit the number of six figures during Art Basel. Picasso's “Buste de Femme”, an oil on canvas from 1953, sold for $4.5 million.
Six works by Colombian Master Fernando Botero; 5 bronzes and 6 works on paper, sold for over $6.0 million. Another best seller were Matta’s, Untitled, 1950, oil on canvas, which sold for $1.2 million and Lam’s, “La Sposa, 1962, oil on burlap, for $1.1 million. The gallery also sold 11 works by local Cuban artist Enrique Martínez Celaya.
Behind is a week full of art and good business for Miami. Art Basel at the Convention Center and other fairs around the city attracted record crowds including a number of celebrities such as Oscar winning actor Adrien Brody. With 250 galleries, presenting the work of 2,000 artists there was plenty to choose from at the main Art Basel show, from the relatively unknown to Warhol, Botero, Basquiat and Picasso.
Such is the case of the work by artist the argentinian Judi Werthein with the video installation The Land of the Free, lasting six minutes. Her piece explores the cultural translation in creating new meaning by using the national anthem of the United States as the basis of his work.
Meanwhile in Midtown, Scope brought together over 75 international galleries with photography, performance, installations and special projects. This year's Pulse fair was presented at The Ice Palace in North Miami Avenue. The Puerto Rican Gallery, RICA won the 2010 PULSE Prize with a piece by the artist Jorge Diaz Torres.
News Blaze.com: November 30, 2010
The healing orb, "Tikkun," by Henry Richardson, part of the Miami Sculpture Biennial on Biscayne Boulevard.Art Miami Basel 2010: Artist Henry Richardson's TIKKUN for Art Basel Attendees
The Art Miami Basel 2010 allows art lovers from Florida and surrounding areas the opportunity to revel in masterworks by some of the most important names in modern and contemporary sculpture including Jean Dubuffet (France), Jose Bedia (Cuba), Fernando Botero (Columbia), Olafur Eliasson (Denmark), Henry Moore (UK), Isamu Noguchi (Japan), Cang Xin (China), and Henry Richardson (USA). The Miami Art Basel Dates in 2010 allows the Miami art community to express the value and importance of art in our everyday lives.
Please go to www.ajjapourgallery.com in order to learn more.
This year's Miami Art Fair Basel is expected to surpass the excellence of the Art Basel 2009. The upcoming Miami Beach Sculpture Biennial is scheduled in the Art Basel dates to open December 3, 2010 and run through January 15, 2011 for the Basel Art Show Miami showing. The works of fifty artists will be displayed including the exceptional piece from Henry Richardson TIKKUN (Healing the World).
Art Miami Basel 2010: Art Basel Dates
Once called a "masterpiece", the 5000-pound, 78-inch diameter, chiseled glass sculpture titled TIKKUN (Healing The World) will be featured at the Art Miami Basel 2010 during the Miami Art Fair Basel. The inspiration for this piece comes from the Hebrew phrase "Tikkun Olam" which means: repairing the world. It is an impressive glass sphere that towers over its audience. Its color reminds viewers of blue green Caribbean waters and they can view it for themselves at the Miami Art Fair Basel during the Miami Art Basel dates. Richardson uses the sphere as a symbol for the universe and the laws of nature and endlessness. Many of his viewers find metaphors for life in his works of art. The opportunity to see this impressive glass sculpture should not be missed. The AJ Japour Gallery is excited to announce this special event as well as their auction in Key Biscayne on December fourth. These upcoming events create buzz throughout the Miami community.
Miami Art Fair Basel: Miami Sculpture Biennial 2010 And Art Basel Dates
The artist, Richardson, expresses that his work carries a constant theme of regeneration. It is similar to an individual who experiences trauma or emotional stress. The pieces are broken and rebuilt such as life through the constant rebuilding of ourselves, making us whole again. One can only imagine his sculptures start as cold commercial grade window glass and they are transformed into breath taking sculptures that transmit light and radiance. The process can almost be compared to the metamorphosis of the butterfly. This extravagant piece of work, along with many others, can be seen at the Art Miami Basel 2010. Be sure to check for Art Basel dates in the area.
The Miami Sculpture Biennale
Henry Richardson's "Tikkun" orb sculpture is featured as part of the Miami Sculpture Biennale 2010 and the Art Basel Miami Beach 2010. The Miami Sculpture Biennale opened at Bayside Park, Miami, and will run from December 3rd, 2010 to January 15th, 2011. Here is the full curator's statement: Miami Sculpture Biennale
Miami Botanical Gardens
Henry Richardson's "Healing the World" sculpture was unveiled at the Miami Botanical Gardens on November 18th at 11am. The event was a great success, raising money for the hospital and providing wonderful entertainment for all. The city of Miami Beach also surprised me with a proclamation declaring that Sunday, November 18th, 2007 as officially "Henry Richardson Day." The link to photographs of the event is here.
Costal Maine Botanical Gardens
The orb at the Coastal Maine Botanical Gardens is receiving wonderful critiques from dedicated art lovers. See the following link: www.mainegardens.org
Danbury 9-11 Memorial Project
Mayor Mark Boughton announced at a community September 11 Memorial Service in 2003 that the City of Danbury, CT would erect a permanent September 11 Memorial and dedicate it on September 11 2004. The appointed 9-11 committee then selected Henry Richardson to create the sculpture that would be the focal point of the memorial. Richardson created the sculpture by taking huge sheets of 28 inch square panels of ½ inch glass, cut out the centers and then used a hammer and chisel to chisel out the inner space, forming a 21 inch square by 144 inch interior space- representing the absence of the World Trade Towers to their proportional dimensions. The interior empty space is the same proportional dimensions as the physical presence of both towers.
Looking from the front of the sculpture through a 8 inch wide window to the inside of the column, one sees an inner column of polished glass, 3 inches thick by 9 inches wide by 12 feet high, with engraved names of all the Connecticut victims. Danbury resident's names are highlighted at eye-level. Richardson chose to alphabetize the victims names by first name, feeling that to be a more personal way of finding a loved one.
The memorial, located on Main Street in Elmwood Park is a 12 foot high, 6000 pound tower of glass mounted on a pentagon of Connecticut granite.
The World Trade Center Proposal
The footprints of the two towers are marked by planes elevated slightly above the landscape of the memorial site. These planes are accessed by shallow ramps and crossed by paths each named for a group of people, organization, Fire Engine Company whose members died in the attacks of February 26, 1993 and September 11, 2001. Along the paths are glass panels 2 feet wide and 6 feet tall, each one representing the memory of a person. Suspended in the glass are objects of significance assembled by family and friends. The paths add up and intersect leaving courtyards between framed by opposite faces of the glass panels. These courts are a place of quiet meditation. One of the paths at each tower footprint leads to a court dedicated to the unidentified remains, which are interred in the area of the court below the plane. Glass remembrance panels with shard edges collectively fill each towers footprint with reflected and refracted light. The victim's relationships to one another and their life stories exist now as the crystalline pages of a living book, shimmering and solemn.
The landscape of the memorial site is subtly textured. The simplicity of open lawn space allows visitors a clean presentation of the site. Here visitors come together, relived to be amidst others, crying and laughing. The desire to communicate now greatly intensified, sculptural responses from multiple artist can be seen openly staged along the western side of the sunken plaza framed against the backdrop of the glass enclosed slurry wall. The center of the landscape rises to create what appears to be a mound approximately twenty feet in elevation. Moving towards the mound a spiraling geometry becomes apparent. Two paths formed by rising earth funnel visitors gradually toward the well of sound. The edges of the path reach full height around the edge of the well. The sounds of water falling echo faintly through the earthbound corridor. The path continues to bend, the volume increases, visitors becoming quiet. There is moisture in the air. The well of sound, sixteen feet in diameter and one thousand three hundred sixty-eight feet in depth, animates time as it evokes contemplation. Every half hour a stone is dropped down the well in memory of a person who was killed in the attacks. Friends, family and other visitors gather for the ritual and may participate if they wish. The stone takes six seconds of silence to fall. The sound of the impact reverberates back up the shaft to the ears of those gathered around the top of the opening.
The events of September 11, 2001 reside in the collective consciousness of the world, Friends, family, coworkers, or strangers witnessed the carnage and shared shock, anger, sadness, and confusion - relived in most cases to be amidst others. Inevitably though, every individual is left alone in solitary contemplation. Out of these experiences comes the realization of new and revitalized connections to life. The memorial will be an opportunity to revisit the realization on sacred ground.
The Tipping Point
The Tipping Point sculpture is a 8" by 30" plate of glass balanced on the tip of a mortar shell. Arranged under the surface of the glass are two opposing visions of America's miliary future. On one side, traditional green GI Joe figures are arrayed, on the other, Imperial Star Wars Troopers. This sculpture raises questions of miliary supremacy, freedom and empire. America was founded on the principle that people have a right to live free from tyranny. Beginning with the American Revolution, we have shown our willingness to defend that principle with force, when diplomacy fails. To protect our freedom, Americans have spent countless sums to build the most powerful military force in the world. The danger we face, however, is that no power in the history of the world has developed overwhelming military supremacy and not used it for expansion and empire building. Are we at the tipping point? Do we have the political will and restraint to limit our use of military power to protect freedom, or will we become the tyrants and empire builders we once rebelled against? Secondly, the sculpture speaks to a more insidious side of these new wars, their entertainment value. How removed have we become from the realities of war? Why are there so few images of destruction, maimed bodies and carnage? Desert Storm got higher TV ratings than the Super Bowl, and we followed the action in Iraq on playing cards. The sculptural reference to Star Wars, or war on the big screen, raise uncomfortable questions about blurring the lines between entertainment and war.
Daily Hampsire Gazette: November 4, 1999
Henry Richardson works in his studio at One Cottage Street on a glass orb he calls Tikkun, from the Hebrew phrase Tikkun Olam, which means "to repair the world."Orb by Easthampton Artist Reflects Theme of Universality
"Part of the purpose of the piece is to provide a way in which anyone who looks at it can have an experience that is personal to them."
By MICHAEL SCHERER, Staff Writer
Thursday, November 4, 1999 - (EASTHAMPTON) - There is an ancient Kabbalistic myth that imagines at the time of creation a giant earthen vessel containing the light of goodness. The vessel slips from God's hands and tumbles toward the Earth, where it breaks into innumerable pieces.
Those that have come to inhabit the Earth are charged with piecing the metaphorical vessel back together, one good deed at a time. In Hebrew, the phrase used is Tikkun Olam, which often translates "to repair the world," usually through acts of charity.
For Henry Richardson, an area glass artist with a studio at One Cottage Street, this story and the beauty of the word Tikkun captures the spirit of his newest project, the largest of his career.
Since late summer, he has been literally piecing together a six-foot-tall orb out of cut and chipped blue-tinted plate glass. Even though the sculpture is hollow, he estimates it will weigh nearly 5,000 pounds when completed, involving 142 layers of epoxied half-inch glass.
"I was trying to find a simple term, a way to describe the positive universality of humanity," said Richardson, who got the idea for the name from a friend in New York.
Not only did Tikkun capture the scope Richardson wanted his piece to address, but the many meanings of the word allowed the work to remain open to communication. Tikkun can also mean to heal and to help.
"Part of the purpose of the piece is to provide a way in which anyone who looks at it can have an experience that is personal to them," he said.
Henry Richardson cleans pieces of glass he is using to create a six-foot tall orb he calls Tikkun at his studio at One Cottage Street, Easthampton. In the background, apprentice Wesley Arnold works on the piece, which has 142 layers of epoxied glass.
Next week, Richardson will get a chance to find out what the rest of the sculpture world thinks about his piece, as he travels to Chicago in a rented truck with his partner, Lynda Hagaerstrom, and the fragile payload.
Richardson has been granted a much-coveted place in the central hall of the Sculpture Objects Functional Arts Exposition later this week. The event is an annual showcase for the premier three-dimensional art galleries in the world, said Richardson.
"It's a huge honor. This is very prestigious," he said.
The placement is so prestigious, in fact, that several wealthy collectors and corporations expressed interest in purchasing the $100,000 piece before it was even completed.
That selling price, if realized, will make the piece both a financial and artistic accomplishment, well worth the long nights, the nerve-wracking drive and even the removal of a door frame from One Cottage Street to get the globe out.
Apprentice Wesley Arnold puts bonding glue on a piece of glass used to make a six-foot tall orb in the Easthampton studio of Henry Richardson.Photos by: Carol Lollis
Richardson, a Northampton resident, has also been invited to speak to a Chicago Art Institute class about the technical difficulties of designing and executing such a large piece. Richardson used a computer model to figure the dimensions of the hundreds of individual glass arcs.
"You never know what will happen. If your math was bad, you'll come up with a banana," he said.
At some point, he said he hopes that Tikkun finds a home in a public place, where people can interact with it on a daily basis, consider its size and symmetry and their own roles in the world.
Healing the World (Tikkun)
A glass sculpture from Henry Richardson's spheroid series, was created out of layered circles of reconstructed, fractured glass. Each ring of bonded, shattered glass was mathematically calculated to correspond to a correct circumference for each layer, the sum of which forms this 5,000 lb., 6 foot hollow, crystalline sphere. The inspiration of Tikkun comes form my belief that societies, which inspire and welcome individual acts of grace, become more considerate, more kind, more tolerant, more open. Tikkun, the word, comes form the Hebrew phrase "Tikkun Olam," which simply means: repairing the world. According to the oral tradition of Hebrew mysticism, as God created the universe, divine substance became infused into every aspect of our material world, including each and every one of us. When any one of us does a good deed, an act of kindness, a beneficent gesture, we become part of a collective force that mends the universe. I created Tikkun, and titled it, to allow each person their individual interpretation of this concept. For me, Tikkun is the hope that our collective acts of grace will ultimately, like these shattered fragments of glass, contribute to a better world--a sparkling, crystalline whole.
Questions related to the acquisition or exhibition of Tikkun should be addressed to Henry Richardson.
"Coming of Age" Sculpture
Henry Richardson created a solid glass sculpture entitled "Coming of Age" for Ms. Margi Derito in Beverly, MA in the spring of 1999. It is an expression, in the subtlest elements of form, of the pulling together of all of ones parts when one finally comes of age, becoming a complete and centered person.
Children of Chernobyl Awards
Mr. Richardson was asked to create the primary awards for the Children of Chernobyl Foundation's Gala Dinner and Auction on November 11, 1998. The Humanitarian "Tree of Life" award went to Leslie and Anna Dan and the "Children of Chernobyl" award went to Mr. Jon Voight.
The Foundation was established to save children who are living in the area affected by the Chernobyl nuclear disaster. The Foundation has saved over 1,641 children to date and its ongoing efforts require the support of generous patrons.
If you are interested in learning more about the Children of Chernobyl please contact their offices at (212) 681-7800. The mailing address is 535 Fifth Avenue, Suite 301, NY, NY, 10017
Heller Gallery, "Glass America" Show
Mr. Richardson participated in the "Glass America" show at the Heller Gallery in New York in January of 1998. The show included works from the reconstruction series in vessel and angel forms.
Frandz Bader Gallery, Washington D.C.
The Franz Bader Gallery in Washington, D.C. had a solo showing of Mr. Richardson's sculpture and furniture in April of 1994. Included in the show was the glass throne and the Z-table.