New autonomous works by Stephen Wilson are on exhibit at the Shaw Center for the Arts in Baton Rouge, Louisiana.
The Art of Light: Works in Glass features gemeaux, sculptural, and leaded glass pieces as well as watercolors and mixed media works.
With this exhibit, Steve Wilson continues a long association with Louisiana State University. In December of 2007, Steve delivered the commencement address to graduates at the LSU College of Art and Design and was named a Distinguished Alumnus of the university. Steve holds an MFA in stained glass from LSU.
The Art of Light: Works in Glass is on display at the Shaw Center's Alfred C. Glassell, Jr. Exhibition Gallery of the LSU School of Art Gallery. The exhibit continues until June 29 and is free and open to the public.
View gemeaux works from the exhibit.
Jacob's Dream, detail
Resurrection Cross, detail
The May 2008 issue of Call to Worship: Liturgy, Music, Preaching & the Arts features SWSG in a photo-essay entitled “In the Spirit: An Artist’s Journey through Church, Scripture, and Light.”
©2008 Call to Worship: Liturgy, Music, Preaching & the Arts. Used by permission.
The Word, The Woodlands Christian Church
...What resulted was a meditation in glass on a passage central to our church's understanding: "In the beginning was the Word"...The imagery placed a fluid, white bright lambda (for "logos") at the origin point of a spiraling galaxy suggestive of the creative exuberance of God. But to the shape of the lambda, Steve had added an additional arm, rising upward toward the right. "Now it's becoming a cross also," he explained, "a pre-emergent cross, because God's love for us, as shown in the cross, was already present there, in the beginning, even before the creation of the world."... Read more.
2007 BENE Best of Show: Ministry and Liturgy Visual Arts Awards: Sacred Symbols and Architecture
"Cross of the Lost and Found"
