Charlotte's Web
Artist
Charlotte Potter
(American, b. 1981)
CultureAmerican
Date2012
MediumBlown, cased glass, cameo-carved, with metal chains
Dimensions12 x 24 ft., 3 in. (365.7 x 731.5 x 7.6 cm) variable
Credit LineMuseum purchase
Object number2012.11
Not on view
DescriptionInstallation consists of 864 cameo glass portraits that hang on individual hooks and connect to each other with chains.Label TextCharlotte Potter American (b. 1981) Charlotte’s Web, 2012 Handmade glass cameos, metal chains, dimensions variable Chrysler Museum of Art, Norfolk, VA Museum purchase 2012.11 This work was originally created for the exhibition _FUSION [A New Century of Glass]_ at the Oklahoma City Museum of Art. "My work explores the space between myself and others, both tangibly adn metaphysically." To create Charlotte's Web, the artist collected the profile pictures of all 864 of her Facebook friends. She then made a small cameo glass portrait of each. Potter mounted the portraits as pendants and then arranged them on the wall by the geographic location where she first met that individual. A newtork of fine chains connected connecting the portraits creates a web of friendship - a visual map of the artist's personal and professional connections.ProvenanceCreated by Charlotte Potter, 2010-2012; Purchased from the artist by Chrysler Museum of Art, November 2012.Exhibition History"FUSION: A New Century of Glass," Oklahoma City Museum of Art, Oklahoma City, OK, June 14 - September 9, 2012. "Charlotte's Web," Chrysler Museum of Art, Norfolk, VA, October 13 - December 30, 2012. "Charlotte's Web," Chrysler Museum of Art, Norfolk, VA, December 13, 2014 - June 28, 2015. Published ReferencesKatharine Morales, “Charlotte Potter Explores Social Networking as a Conceptual Art Strategy,” Glass Quarterly Hot Sheet (June 22, 2012), accessed October 12, 2012, http://blog.glassquarterly.com/2012/06/22/charlotte-potter-explores-social-networking-as-conceptual-art-strategy/ Diane Daniel, "Chrysler Museum Glass Studio: Honoring the artistic process in Norfolk," _Tidewater Traveler: The Magazine for AAA Members_, January/February 2014, p.24 (not pictured).
