On and off the Walls

Courtesy of Wexler Gallery and the Artist

GLASS ACT IN PHILADELPHIA

Mention glass art, and you would not immediately conjure up images of the work produced by the Rhode Island-based artist Daniel Clayman. He considers himself a sculptor in glass. Clayman began his career as a lighting designer for theater and modern dance, then turned to glass with great success. His pieces are spare, minimal, striking, and architectural—and quite often, large-scaled. A new exhibition, entitled Daniel Clayman: Shifting Scale, opens at Philadelphia’s Wexler Gallery on May 3 and runs through June 30. The exhibition will showcase Clayman’s casting method, which results in glass that is at once textured and translucent. “Some of the pieces are easily identifiable as vessels and may allude to holding volumes of water,” he says. “Others are pure abstraction holding only quantities of air and space.” wexlergallery.com