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Art Glass Panels by David Schnuckel at Bullseye

If you find yourself in Mamaroneck, New York over the next few weeks, be sure to swing by Bullseye to check out Mend, a compelling mix of art glass panels and sculpture by David Schnuckel and Jennifer Halvorson, on view through February 13.

I’m particularly taken by Schnuckel’s work, resonating with some of my own past explorations of writing on glass. Schnuckel, based in Rochester, New York, actually works in a range of mediums, but has an especially extensive background in glass. His work frequently explores how words and images interact with glass, as well as relationships between glass and other materials with overlapping associations or properties. As Bullseye notes,

David Schnuckel’s practice has been guided by the joining of words and images into sculptures and installations. Porous Blossoms (2015), part of a series of works titled per.me.able, is a set of blown glass vessels containing the artist’s handwritten notes. Schnuckel is interested in “materials and phenomena that carry glass-like tendencies or associations: fragility, optics, transparency, translucency, gloss…plasticity.” For Schnuckel, glass and paper are, “figurative membranes that bind…or encapsulate content.” Schnuckel… continues this relationship in another series entitled Word Pictures. Drawing on a recent visit to Caithness, Scotland, Schnuckel records his thoughts on the experience in a series of overlapping lines creating visually, through words, the vast horizon that dominates the landscape in the region.

The Bullseye Resource Center New York Gallery is located at 115 Hoyt Avenue in Mamaroneck, NY (very close to the Mamaroneck train station on the Metro-North New Haven Line). Click here for more information about Bullseye, including gallery hours.

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