This year Glasstress returns to The Boca Raton Museum of Art for a third edition, bringing a selection of contemporary art in glass to Florida, curated by the Museum’s Senior Curator, Kathleen Goncharov.
Set to open this April 23 and run till October the star-studded line-up presents an array of artists from the Berengo archives, including around thirty works by globally celebrated artists. New works in cast glass by the Chinese artist and activist Ai Weiwei feature alongside a large-scale hanging sculpture, while three glass birds by the Turner prize-winning French artist Laure Prouvost find themselves thrust into a new environment far from home. Irish artist Sean Scully, known for his lush abstract paintings, turns to sculpture, his Venice Stack a totemic tower consisting of hand-made glass slabs of vibrant colors measuring nearly eight feet tall. Then there’s the German artist Thomas Schütte, whose work was the subject of a 2024 retrospective at New York’s Museum of Modern Art, who will contribute an installation of vivid coloured urns. Meanwhile, the MacArthur “genius” grant recipient, María Magdalena Campos-Pons presents two large-scale works, one hanging mobile that swings suspended in the air, and another grounded structure that combines metal and glass in a surreal cage.
The list of artists and artworks goes on, but for this third edition of Glasstress at the Boca Raton Museum of Art two artworks will make their debut, having been commissioned specially for the exhibition and will be shown for the first time. Both artworks engage with new ferocity questions around nature and the uncertainties of our future environments. The Belgian artist Arne Quinze’s Symbiome (2025) presents a hanging sculpture that integrates handblown glass with a metal frame to create a surreal biological landscape where ferns of glass sprout from a metallic trunk. While local Florida-based Venezuelan artist Jose Alvarez (D.O.P.A.) presents Echoes of Silence in the Galactic Garden, (2025) a mirrored glass surface upon which his vivid colorful designs spring to life.
For more information head to the Boca Raton Museum of Art’s website here.
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