Fiona Banner
April 24 – October 12, 2025 | Boca Raton Museum of Art
Fiona Banner
Work 2, 2013
Glass
340 x 180 x 120 cm
Glasstress Boca Raton 2025 is the third iteration of the popular series of exhibitions at the Boca Raton Museum of Art. Glasstress is a project in Murano, Italy, at the Berengo Studio that brings major international artists, many of whom have never worked in glass, to Venice to collaborate with its glass masters. These experts are challenged to rise to the technical challenges that artists at the forefront of contemporary art present and expand beyond their centuries-old techniques. The project also aims to increase the prestige of glass as fine art and to bring Murano's ancient traditions into the contemporary world. The result is innovative artworks that are dramatic.
Glasstress Boca Raton 2025 includes over twenty works by globally celebrated artists. Irish artist Sean Scully, known for lush abstract paintings, turned to sculpture as an artist-in-residence at the Berengo Studio. His Venice Stack is a monumental tower with handmade glass squares of vibrant colors, measuring nearly eight feet tall. Another colorful installation of multiple glass urns by German artist Thomas Schütte, whose work is the subject of a current retrospective at New York's Museum of Modern Art, is also included. Other artists included in Glasstress Boca Raton 2025 are Chinese artist Ai Weiwei with a giant chandelier, British artist Fiona Banner with her life-size glass scaffold, and multiple works by the celebrated British artist Tony Cragg.