Boucher & Huebner at Daniel Kany Gallery

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	LUCIE BOUCHER & BERNIE HUEBNER Waterville, Maine
	CATHEDRAL DUSK Stained glass elements with self-lighted wooden base, 45"w, $1,500 Click on thumbnail for larger image.
	EUCLID Stained glass elements with self-lighted wooden base, 45"w, $1,100 Click on thumbnail for larger image.
	ICE Stained glass elements with self-lighted wooden base, 42"w, $1,300 Click on thumbnail for larger image.
	ALPINE Stained glass elements with self-lighted wooden base, 42"w, $1,100 Click on thumbnail for larger image.
	TWO FACED Stained glass elements with self-lighted wooden base, 42"w, $1,300 Click on thumbnail for larger image.
	SCALENE Stained glass elements with self-lighted wooden base, 42"w, $1,100 Click on thumbnail for larger image.
	SEUSS Stained glass elements with self-lighted wooden base, 42"w, $1,100 Click on thumbnail for larger image.

Glasscapes
Artist Reception: Friday, May 5th, 5 - 8 PM Exhibition: May 4 - 31, 2007

By working as a team, Waterville artists Lucie Boucher and Bernie Huebner have been able to expand their technical boundaries and develop wholly innovative structures and content. The works they call glasscapes are assemblages of shaped glass elements set in beautifully-crafted wooden stands that are backlit by fixtures built into the bases. While the sets of glass elements are specifically balanced and composed by the artists, they imbue their works with a unique sense of dynamism by not constraining the placement of the flat elements. If the viewer is inclined to shift a piece or two (or all of them), there’s nothing to stop it from happening.

Huebner and Boucher’s Euclid, for example, is a piece that features sixteen yellow, green and blue geometric forms in flat glass. The triangles, squares, circles and hexagons overlap to create varying rhythms and degrees of color saturation. The shallow layers of the vertical elements create a type of optical depth one might expect in painting, but Euclid delivers a sculptural theatricality to go with the frontal and over-archingly flat presentation. Through backlighting, the work clearly announces itself as glass and it lets the viewer see it is about light just as much as about color. Shifting between flatness and three-dimensional logic, Huebner and Boucher show in their works that while glass is sculptural, it is not like other media.