SOFA New York Boasts small sales

SOFA, the show at the Armory last April 20--23, 2012. According to their newsletter among reported sales were the following: a major porcelain sculpture with celadon glaze by Sueharu Fukami for $120,000 from Floating World Gallery (Chicago); a  Steffan Dam glass installation at Heller Gallery,  New York for $60,000; an Iconic Libensky/Brychtova cast glass sculpture at Litvak Gallery , Tel Aviv  for $60,000; a Richard Jolley blown glass at Scott Jacobson Gallery ,  New York for $45,000;  Vivian Beer's Forth Bench for $28,000 and Philipp Aduatz's Melting Chair for $19,500, both at Wexler Gallery Philadelphia; a piece by Jun Kaneko called "dango"  for $25,000 Duane Reed Gallery, St. Louis, MO; a  Kent Townsend bubinga cabinet from Jane Sauer Gallery, Santa Fe, NM) for $23,000; and a Kurt Weiser painted porcelain vessel for $16,000 Ferrin Gallery, Pittsfield, MA, and finally a bamboo sculpture by Morigami Jin for $12,500 from the TAI Gallery, Santa Fe, NM.
The auditorium floor looked like this.

Hot Glass at the SOFA Chicago Art Show

Last important show of the fall for contemporary craft works is the Chicago SOFA at the Navy Pier's Festival Hall.

The opening is tonight Thursday November 3 from 7 to 9PM. Preview tickets are available in advance from

Artist list here: www.sofaexpo.com or at the door.

Litvak Gallery (Tel Aviv) returns with another stellar booth installation, featuring Peter Bremers, Dale Chihuly, Vaclav Ciglar, Bohumil Elias, Bohumil Elias; Jr., Stepan Pala, Zora Palova;, Julius Weiland and more!Other top glass artists represented at the fair include: Howard Ben Tré(Habatat Galleries, Royal Oak, MI); Philip Baldwin and Monica Guggisberg (David Richard Contemporary, Santa Fe, NM); José Chardiet (Thomas R. Riley Galleries, Cle

veland, OH); Richard Jolley (Scott Jacobson Gallery, New York & Berengo Studio 1989, Murano & Venice); John Kiley (Traver Gallery, Seattle); Vladimira Kumplar (Heller Gallery, New York); Latchezar Boyadjiev (PISMO Gallery, Denver, CO); Silvia Levenson(Bullseye Gallery, Portland, OR); Libensky/Brychtova (Habatat Galleries, West Palm Beach, FL); Richard Marquis (Elliott Arts West, Santa Fe, NM); William Morris and Yoichi Ohira (Barry Friedman Ltd); Ginny Ruffner (Maurine Littleton Gallery, Washington, DC); Paul Stankard (Jane Sauer Gallery, Santa Fe, NM);Preston Singletary and Dante Marioni (a new collaboration! at Blue Rain Gallery, Santa Fe, NM); Lino Tagl

iapietra-with a booksigning! (Schantz Galleries, Stockbridge, MA); and Bertil Vallien (Hawk Galleries, Columbus, OH). Stankard and Vallien will speak in the Lecture Series. Don't miss the panel discussion Who Made This?

The Corning Museum of Glass Hot Glass Roadshow's live demonstrations

by SOFA-represented artists and Corning master glassblo

wers; or new! creation of a glass mosaic by The Society of American Mosaic Artists (SAMA). Here Richard Jolley blows some glass using the Corning Museum of Glass' mobile roadshow.

Picture credit SOFA website: wood seat by Wendell Castle, who was the instructor at RIT when I was there at the School for American Craftsmen.