The international invitational and juried exhibition will include works by artists from such diverse places as Japan, North Carolina, Chicago and San Francisco, as well as the San Diego area. Show jurors are Ron Carlson, Grove Gallery director, and David Svenson, a Wrightwood, Calif., artist. Both will be represented with works in the show. Among San Diego artists exhibiting will be UCSD Crafts Center instructors Bret Daniel, Mark Riley and Frank Varnell. Carlson said the show will consist of single electrode illuminated sculpture.
Traditional neon electrifies the inert gas from two directions.
In contrast, the single work has the circuit grounding out to the air using very high frequency electrical energy. Carlson added that artists chosen to exhibit have created works from several sources of glass. Artists invited to exhibit works include Kim Koga, Sally Prasch, Jacob Fishman, David Wilson, Jan Sanchez, Mundy Hepburn, Candace Gawne, Ed Bigger, Mike Yasmasita and Jim White. Artists juried into the show include David Smith, Fernando Godinez, Rhys Williams, Stephen Jones, Jason Chakravarty, Damian Johnson, Eric Franklin and Ko-Wei Tan. The May 6-7 workshop, from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. each day, will deal with the single electrode neon techniques combining the newest methods of making glass containers for illuminating gas.