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Brookfield Craft Center this Summer

A glass preview....

Joseph Cavalieri will be teaching Painting on Glass class at the Brookfield Craft Center this Summer  (June 21-23, 2013).

Joseph was asked to create a new work for a gallery show in New York titled “Motown to Def Jam 2”. Curated by Sou L Eo, this group show take  place in a group of galleries in Harlem. Cavalieri’s work will be show in La Maison d’Art Private Gallery at 259 West 132nd Street. The reception is set for Tuesday June 11 (6-9PM) and an ArtCrawl is being formed on June 15th. 

 Cavalieri was given choices of lyrics to create a work from. He chose the song “Soulsville” by Isaac Hayes, from the from the sound track to the blaxploitation film “Shaft” (1971). 

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 “Slums, ghetto and black belt, they are one and the same. And I call it ‘Soulsville’” 

 

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This song presents a very straightforward and realistic portrait of a depressed 1970s inner city, and ends with a ray of hope with “God putting an end to all this misery”. How exactly God will end the misery is left to the listener.  

Joseph chose to create a portrait of Isaac Hayes in stained glass to connect this song to the roots of soul music has in the church, plus glass is his medium! “Black Moses” was the title of the next album after Shaft. 

The image shows a Godly Isaac Hayes with a halo of ‘70 cars including a Ford Mustang, Datsun 240z, Dodge Challenger, and the Cadillac Deville. The cars and color pallet of tans and greens date from the 1970s. The most outer layer is of abstracted bricks.

The technique dates back to Medieval times. Enamel paint, which is made of ground glass,  is applied onto the glass surface and kiln fired at 1250 degrees Fahrenheit. The glass is then soldered together. I updated this technique by using a silk screen process. 

To see more of Cavalieri’s work visit: CAVAglass.com

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