....glows with brilliance"
These works are tightly controlled rages against those who struck out against America on that day. Cracked glass, blood red verticals, carefully applied etching mediums, oxides, paints, glazes, inks, enamels - all bent to his intent: to make us feel the terrible import of it all.
The metaphors are suggested by the titles: Protected House, Fractured Home, House on the Hill, Golden House, etc., and are at once beautiful and formidable, exploring the notion of both security and belonging, as well as their polar opposites.
By Dorothy Shinn
Beacon Journal Art and Architecture Critic
There's nothing traditional about Henry Halem's glass art. His glass has been painted, inked and scribbled on, sandblasted, shot with acid and even shattered into a thousand spidery cracks. And the pieces are not in the lovely curves of traditional vases or bowls or in the wild firework abstractions of contemporary artists like Dale Chihuly. Instead, they take the form of rectangles: They're ordinary glass boxes filled with extraordinary things.
Shimmering Surrealism
Leading glass artist Henry Halem shatters convention
By Margaret Regan
Tucson Weekly

Connections

Subtitle

https://talkingoutyourglass.com/henry-halem/
Online Interview, 2024
https://www.tucsonweekly.com/tucson/shimmering-
surrealism/Content?oid=4917597
2015 Tucson Weekly review of show at Philabaum Gallery, Tucson, AZ
https://theportager.com/artist-henry-halem
-joins-kent-history-with-contemporary-art/
September 18, 2023 Portager Interview, Kent, OH
https://exhibitions.bgc.bard.edu/studioglasshistory
/artists/henry-halem/
Bard College: VOICES in STUDIO GLASS HISTORY
https://people.cmog.org/bio/henry-halem
Henry Bio on Corning Museum website
https://dia.org/collection/holocaust-47406
Detroit Institute of Art (DIA)
https://www.clevelandartandhistory.org/html/HTML
Pages/artists/Hartists.htm
Cleveland Art and History - Image of Roman Vessel in Aluminum box
https://dks.library.kent.edu/?a=d&d=dks19911107-
01.2.24&e=-------en-20--1--txt-txIN-------
Daily Kent Stater, Volume LXVII, Number 39, 7 November 1991
https://omeka.library.kent.edu/special-collections/
items/show/8356
Henry- Kent State Oral History
https://americanart.si.edu/artist/henry-halem-27938
Renwick Gallery (Smithsonian) Blown Vessel
https://historicimages.com/products/cvp16837
Photo of Corning Piece
https://americanhistory.si.edu/collections/
object/nmah_591126
Photo of Halem ceramic piece (Smithsonian, National Museum of American History)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r8Gd0pyKOL8
15 minute video of me blowing glass at the Sonoran Glass School in Tucson, AZ
https://www.si.edu/object/oral-history-interview-henry-halem-2005-may-14%3AAAADCD_oh_252332
Smithsonian Oral History
https://www.clevelandart.org/art/1997.165
Photo of Figure at the Cleveland Museum of Art

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Life Magazine - February, 1982