Tag: Glass
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Bespoke Glass Studio's Sculptures Challenge Traditional Conventions of Stained Glass
With a stained glass window, light filters through to illuminate narrative scenes or geometric patterns, but it’s primarily the window itself that draws our attention. For Lesley Green of Bespoke Glass, these vibrant compositions certainly aren’t limited to these traditional apertures. “One of my personal obsessions is trying to convince people to hang glass on read more
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Stained Glass Objects by Pia Hinz Reflect the Contrast Between Strength and Fragility
Building sites and agricultural areas are typically described by the utilitarian operations that shape them—rugged, harsh, and often back-breaking. They are spaces that resist softness, built quite literally around force and tension. Artist Pia Hinz flips this idea on its head as she explores the conceptual and material relationship between strength and vulnerability. Living and read more
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Get 'Super/Natural' Inside Judith Schaechter's Stained Glass Sculpture
Like a miniature chapel with enough space for one person to stand comfortably, Judith Schaechter’s glowing installation, “Super/Natural,” invites viewers to reflect on nature. An exhibition of the same name just opened at Claire Oliver Gallery and pays homage to biophilia, a theory positing that humans seek connections with nature through an innate attraction. Schaechter read more
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Grant Garmezy Molds a Full-Size Dakotaraptor from Molten Glass
Dakotaraptor, a fossilized skeleton of which was discovered a little more than 20 years ago by paleontologists in South Dakota, was an extremely lethal prehistoric predator. Its feathered body, powerful legs, and huge jaw gave it an advantage as it roamed its territory some 66 million years ago. But it was really its so-called “sickle read more
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Lola Gil Distorts Memories With Her Glass Managerie – Hi-Fructose Magazine
I AM DEFINITELY PLAYING AROUND WITH NOSTALGIA… IT IS THE PLACE WHERE MY IMAGINATION BEGAN, AND I AM ATTACHED TO THAT EXPERIENCE FOR MY ESCAPE.” Especially in her early career, Gil was struck by the art world describing her as a type of surrealist. Pop or lowbrow did not matter. It rang untrue. It seemed read more
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