Art at Noon Gallery Talk — Barbara Basch

Barbara Basch has been collecting contemporary glass since 1993, when she and her late husband, Richard, bought Dale Chihuly's The Blue Persian. The couple later gave their 300-piece collection to Ringling College and helped build its Richard and Barbara Basch Visual Arts Center. In this Art at Noon gallery talk she brings a collector's eye to Monica Guggisberg and Philip Baldwin: Precession Through Glass. The exhibition gathers sculpture and installations by the Swiss and American pair, made of blown, cut and assembled glass and neon, on subjects ranging from genetics to the riddle of consciousness. The group gathers in the Wendy G. Surkis & Peppi Elona Lobby and talks among the works, so the hour is spent standing.