A Temporary Curse at Bb

Artists: Noa Glazer, Stephanie Hier, Michael Bussell

Exhibition title: A Temporary Curse

Venue: Bb, Baltimore, US

Date: April 2 – May 21, 2016

Photography: all images copyright and courtesy of the artist and Bb, Baltimore

She whispered a prayer for strength and her wishes wafted away like seeds in the wind.
—Seedcradle Witch, Magic the Gathering Shadowmoor Expansion

To make glass, a manufacturer heats silicon dioxide to 3090ºF, the temperature that marks its shift into liquid form. As the white hot substance cools, it settles into an amorphous solid, that is, a material with some of the crystalline order of a solid and some of the molecular randomness of a liquid. Along with ceramic and diamond, it is one of the harder materials readily available from home. Its 5.5 rating on the Mohs scale indicates, simply, that it will scratch most materials before they scratch it.

A piece of sea glass is a glass of milk is a mitten is an unopened letter. It carries……….I can’t remember. This piece of sea glass is pretty soft; it must be old. This one is actually just a grain of sand; it must be really old.

Noa Glazer (b. 1981 Haifa, Israel) lives and works in Israel. Recent exhibitions include New Dominion at Mixed Greens in New York and a solo show at Tempo Rubato in Tel Aviv. She received her BFA from Bezalel Academy of Art and Design in Israel and her MFA from Virginia Commonwealth University in Virginia.

Stephanie Hier (b. 1992 Toronto, Ontario) is an artist living and working in Toronto, Ontario. Recent exhibitions include Here’s The Catch at Johannes Vogt Gallery in New York and NADA New York with Ed. Varie. Hier received an OAC Visual Art Project Grant in 2015 and the Evans Award and B.I.G. Grant in 2014. She received her BFA from the Ontario College of Art and Design in 2014.

Michael Bussell (b. 1991 Wilmette, IL) has exhibited locally and internationally. Solo shows include Some Shut Eye, 2016 at 5o1.online (Leeds, UK) and In Time’s Breeze, 2015 at Deli Gallery (Brooklyn, NY). He received his BFA in Photography from MICA in 2014 and lives in Baltimore, MD.