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By Layne Christensen
Community Reporter

SEYMOUR Art Gallery serves
up a fusion of food and art
tonight with the opening of J,
Object, a show of glass art by
Brock Craig.

Raku Kushiyaki Restaurant will be
providing sushi to feed the nrasses
expected to turn out for Craig’s first
solo show,

The artist will be dishing out fabu-
lous fare of another sort. Craig's
“sushis” are his fused and slumped glass
platters that have been selling well in

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of food

galleries in the United States and
Canada. (Trevor Hooper, owner of
Raku, has purchased several platters for
display in bis dining room.)

Priced between $195 and $650, they
are a bargain, Craig figures, considering
that each piece requires extensive hand-
working plus a minimum of two firings
in the kiln.

Each platter is formed from two
sheets of iridescent glass, Sandwiched
between the two sheets are various
forms and patterns, created through
vinyl resist or cutouts of gold or silver
foil, Through sandblasting, color
emerges multi-hued like an oil slick.

“They're not something you whip
off in a weekend,” says Craig, during a
Starbucks break. His studio is a garage
tucked away on a wooded lot in Lynn
Valley. (Fellow glass artists Morna
Tudor and Gary Bolt can be found in

and art

the house next door.)

“There’s no phone and no distrac-
tions,” says Craig of his private locale.
Good thing, too. The 49-year-old artist
has been holed up there every day but,”
one since returning from leading 4
workshop in Cape Cod this June. (Craig
himself regularly attends glass-are work-
shops including several at the fumed
Pilchuk Glass School near Seattle:)

His Seymour exhibition is billed as a
show of “new works” and he’s taken
that as incentive to experiment with
new techniques and forms. Most of the
32 works on display are the result of this
intensely creative time. |

Tonight’s opening reception is free and
open to the public. The artist will lead a

ide. presentation of his work on
Weduesday, Aug, 28, at 7 p.m. The
gallery is located at 4360 Gallant Ave. in
Deep Cove.