the Orange County Museum of Art, critic Roberta Carasso described his work as being "part of the glass revolution". The Christian Science Monitor described his poured glass works as timeless, monumental and "hulking, architectural forms he creates...existed before the dawn of recorded history." Arthur Danto stated in 2000 that Ben Tré's glass works were redefining and powerful, and that he creates "a kind of pleasure that we don't usually associate with art." Notable collections & installations Caryatids, 1998, Hunter Museum of American Art, Chattanooga, Tennessee Immanent Circumstance, 1991, Norman Leventhal Park, Boston, Massachusetts Kira's Benches, 2007, Hood Museum of Art, Hanover, New Hampshire Mantled Figure, 1993, Rhode Island School of Design Museum, Providence, Rhode Island Siphon, 1989, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, New York Untitled, Artery Plaza, Bethesda, Maryland Various works; Corning Museum of Glass, Corning, New York Water Forest, Museum of Glass, Tacoma, Washington Notable exhibitions Design Visions, 1992, Art Gallery of Western Australia, Perth, Australia Masters of Contemporary Glass, 1997, Indianapolis Museum of Art, Indianapolis, Indiana Interior/Exterior, 2000, Palm Springs Desert Museum, Palm Springs, California Howard Ben Tré: Sculpting Space in the Public Realm, 2001, Minneapolis Institute of Arts, Minneapolis, Minnesota Solo exhibition; 2002, Charles Cowles Gallery, New York, New York Private Visions, Utopian Ideals: The Art of Howard Ben Tré, 2005, State University of New York at Buffalo, Buffalo, New York Further reading Calo, Carole Gold. "Public Art / Private Art: Dichotomy or Intersection?." Public Art Review 15.1 (2003): 4-10. D.K. "Howard Ben Tre." Artforum International 35.7 (1997): 91. Danto, Arthur C., Mary Jane Jacob and Patterson Sims. Howard Ben Tré. Manchester: Hudson Hills Press (1999). French, Meghann & Eleanor Heartney. Private Visions, Utopian Ideals: The Art of Howard Ben Tre. Buffalo: University of Buffalo (2005). Jepson, Barbara. "The Gallery: Community Through Glass." Wall Street Journal - Eastern Edition 18 Oct. 2001: A24. Johnson, Linda L. Howard Ben Tre: Contemporary Sculpture. Washington: Phillips Collection (1989). Ben Tré, Howard, Diana L. Johnson and Donald B. Kusbit. Howard Ben Tré: New Work. Providence: Brown University (1993). Streitfeld, L. P. (Lisa P.), 1958-. "Interior Exterior Vision: A Conversation with Howard Ben Tre." Sculpture (Washington, D.C.) 21.9 (2002): 44-49. "Vis Alchemical." Neues Glas 1 (1998): 54. References External links an interview with Ben Tré from the Wheeler School 1949 births 2020 deaths Artists from Brooklyn Artists from Rhode Island American glass artists National Endowment for the Arts Fellows People from