EXHIBIT
Museum Exhibition
for Mary Shaffer
Through June 12, the Houston Center for Contemporary Craft features an installation of Mary Shaffer's Light-Catcher pieces, which are made of sheets of slumped plate glass balanced atop powerful metal forms. Also on display at this four-year-old institution are the artist's Tool Wall installations, which incorporate found hand tools as an homage to methods of work that are becoming obsolete. Several pieces from Shaffer's "Hanging Series," which the artist likens to some of the earliest paintings, are also on view. "I like the illusion early paintings had of being a reference to windows during the time when painters first abandoned fresco painting for easel painting," says Shaffer. The pieces in "Hanging Series" allude to windowpanes in metal lattice patterns. For more information on the exhibition: www. crafthouston.org.