SNOWFALLS: jetsam jewels

SNOWFALLS: jetsam jewel curtain by Kari Glass

Twisted Twigs . Sea Glass . Tangled Steel . Glass Globes

upcycled hanging sculpture: 34" x 34" x 6"

Rising Tide Productions

Artist: Kari Glass

Photographed by Bob Moore

FIDDLEHEAD SEA STAR

ALASKA FIDDLEHEAD SEA STAR

Papier Mache and Tangled Steel

18" x 12" x 6" Wall Hanging

Rising Tide Productions

Artist: Kari Glass

Photographed by Robin Rosemond

SNOWFALLS: jetsam jewels

Beach bounced bottles, bleached battered banged

Sea sunk, sand scraped, salt soaked sun.

Water worn, weather whipped, washed with waves

Turbid turned tides, tip-tossed by time.

ALASKA SEA SPIDER

ALASKA SEA SPIDER is a papier mache, wall relief piece by Kari Glass from a body of work titled ALASKA SHE SAID WAS THE NAME OF HER STAR inspired by the Wizard of Oz.

BLACK FISH SOUND SEA SPIDER

Papier Mache

wall sculpture: 27" x 39" x 6"

Rose Coloured Glass Productions

Artist: Kari Glass

Photographed by Bob Moore

Kari Glass and ALASKA SEA SPIDER (in-progress)--from the ALASKA SHE SAID WAS THE NAME OF HER STAR ensemble.

ALASKA SEA SPIDER

Papier Mache

wall sculpture: 27" x 39" x 6"

Rose Coloured Glass Productions:

Artist: Kari Glass

Photographed by Robin Rosemond

THE DARKEST MOON

THE DARKEST MOON: sea star improv an interactive collaborative sculpture by Kari Glass and Robin Rosemond from Rose Coloured Glass Productions WHAT IS exhibit created during the Anchorage LION KING stage tour. THE DARKEST MOON: sea star improv is an homage to Julie Taymor and Michael Curry's collaborative artistry.

THE DARKEST MOON: sea star improv

Papier Mache Sculpture

16" x 32" x 16"
WHAT IS: collaborative visual and performance art exhibit

ROSE COLOURED GLASS PRODUCTIONS:

Robin Rosemond and Kari Glass

PORTRAIT PAINTINGS: Art Historical Context

Oil on Canvas 16 X 20" Grisaille 1980 by Kari Glass

This underpainting is a study from a Thomas Couture portrait housed in the collection of the California Palace Legion of Honor Museum in San Francisco. In 1980 Kari Glass was granted permission to paint this homage to Couture in the museum while studying drawing and painting at San Jose State University (SJSU) from Maynard Dixon Stewart with formal training in linear perspective, foreshortening and the technique of rendering a heightened illusion of mass, volume, and dimension when illuminated from a single light source.

Oil on Paper 20 x 36 Homage to Edward Hopper 1989 by Kari Glass

Kari Glass studied painting from Spencer Mosely, Michael Daily, Michael Spafford and life painting from Norman Lundin at the University of Washington in the BFA painting program in 1986. Kari painted a section of an Edouard Hopper image in/exterior cityscape as a backdrop to the portrayed seated model.

Oil on Paper 20 x 36 Homage to Frans Hals & Paul Cezanne 1989 Self Portrait by Kari Glass

Reminiscent of the Dutch Masters, Kari Glass used a limited pallet contrasted by a starkly white collar and a Cezanne still life background.

INUK AND THE SUN: Production Design Concept and Master Symbol

Alaska Theatre of Youth's INUK AND THE SUN was directed and designed by Kari Glass

INUK AND THE SUN is a coming-of-age story which "explores the fundamental human experience of life and death" (Beissel), set in an Arctic winterscape in a small Inuit village. The young protagonist, Inuk, is on a classic hero quest, seeking self-determination by searching for the light and nurturing warmth of the sun in the midst of the cold dark winter. Playwright Henry Beissel chose the Inuit setting for his story because "Canada's first people have much to teach us . . . [about] the need to understand and accept our place in nature in order to survive."

The master symbol for this production is the Yin-Yang image a two part interlocking puzzle joined together to complete the whole. The archetypal characters present riddles at every stage of the journey and Inuk is asked to collect pieces of information in order to solve the puzzle.

The opening poem begins, "White is black, and black is white," a concept symbolized by the two halves of the Yin-Yang circle. Inuk's journey ultimately becomes a completion concept symbolized by the juxtaposed Yin-Yang. Inuk's life is complemented and completed by the love and brilliant illumination he finds from his union with the Spirit of the Sun. Her warm femininity tempers Inuk's cold competitive masculine tendencies. She fills him with a transforming light and brings him into the heart of his community. This play is about the juxtaposed elements of nature, light-dark, life-death, feast-famine, sun-moon, young-old, summer-winter, day-night, hot-cold, mundane-spiritual, and female-masculine.

About the Production:

Kari Glass directed and designed Henry Beissel's poetic stage play "Inuk and the Sun" produced by Alaska Theatre for Youth's 2005 summer conservatory in the Alaska Center for the Performing Arts Discovery Theatre. Yngvil Vatn Guttu composed and performed an original score for the production. Poet and performance artist Brian Hutton and California award winning drama teacher Susan Raley coached and ran second scenes while Kari ran the rehearsals.