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Table Of Content

• Decorative Art Glass Studio
• Aimo Okkolin (1917 – Finnish Glass Designer
• Classes
• Famed Los Angeles Artist Robert Vargas to Receive Honorary Doctorate Degree from ArtCenter College of Design
• Recently Completed Glass Projects
• Ulla Forsell (b. , Swedish Glassware Designer
• Transform Your Home With A Glass Grid Shower Or Divide Your Commercial Space With A Glass Grid Partition or Wall
• Stained Glass

In my work, I observe objects from the world around me and convey ideas by identifying aspects of these object that I am drawn to. Color, form or historical meaning become a point of departure and focus while aspects that make these objects live or function in reality, become secondary or completely denied during the creative process. In this way objects from my experience become beautiful, yet un-functional, or are combined in a way to see the paradoxes through which I view the world. Art is sometimes etched into glass via the use of acid, caustic, or abrasive substances.

Sea Creatures From the Deep, Captured in Glass, Rise at Mystic Seaport - The New York Times

Sea Creatures From the Deep, Captured in Glass, Rise at Mystic Seaport.

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Decorative Art Glass Studio

Then, “the day before I graduated college, my friends and I went to an amusement park in Toledo, Ohio. At Cedar Point, they have a glassblowing pavilion where you can watch people blow glass.” The first time she saw glassblowing there, Gitlitz was absolutely transfixed. Humor, whimsy and imagination are a cathartic aspect of my studio practice that allow me to address more serious emotions from a place of playfulness.

Aimo Okkolin (1917 – Finnish Glass Designer

However, Chihuly showcased three collections on the 500ft footbridge, one of which is the Sea Pavillion found on the downtown side of the bridge. It features 2,364 marine life-inspired glass art enclosed in glass panes on the ceiling of the partially covered bridge. Many believed that he inspired the Glass House from Mies van der Rohe's Farnsworth House. Van der Rohe even designed some of the furniture in this iconic house. The design used bricks to enclose the fireplace and the bathroom, but everything else is visible to the outside world, thanks to the glass walls.

Classes

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Cedric Mitchell Presents Black Glass Artist Series.

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I approached the sculpture as if it were a three-dimensional drawing, constructed from iterative parts. Our glass artisans and our in-house installation team are equipped for virtually any project type—from individual pieces to complicated, large-scale applications. Whether working with a homeowner, designer, architect, general contractor, commercial company or a major developer, we apply the same standards of quality, timeliness, and professionalism. The earliest glass art paperweights were produced as utilitarian objects in the mid 1800s in Europe. Glass art paperweights, can incorporate several glass techniques but the most common techniques found are millefiori and lampwork—both techniques that had been around long before the advent of paperweights.

Famed Los Angeles Artist Robert Vargas to Receive Honorary Doctorate Degree from ArtCenter College of Design

I want to take a minute to compliment your craftsmen on their work to replace the beveled glass on my old grandmother’s clock face. You might remember that the top edge of one piece was fluted so it had to be sent out to a gentleman who bevels custom shapes by hand. One of my hobbies is to study medieval churches in Europe, and his work matches anything I see there. As a Minneapolis based glass company, we have been fortunate to work with some great clients on some amazing projects! For more commercial glass installations and projects we have completed, check out our Markets page for a selection of projects broken down by industries we have worked with in the past.

Recently Completed Glass Projects

This talent helped him discover glass as a sculptural material in college. Steven graduated with a Bachelor of Fine Arts from Illinois State University in 2012. Two years later, he received a residency at the Studio of the Corning Museum of Glass to experiment with complex techniques in the hotshop.

Ulla Forsell (b. , Swedish Glassware Designer

Landscape architect Elisa Read Pappaterra filled the center fountain with cascading succulents. A brick-walled patio became a party-ready outdoor kitchen and dining area thanks to Douglas R. Sanicola of Outdoor Elegance. Sanicola and Monique Wood installed Caesarstone countertops fabricated by Carlito’s Way Stone to create a functional space for outdoor entertaining.

In the US, Charles Kaziun started in 1940 to produce buttons, paperweights, inkwells and other bottles, using lampwork of elegant simplicity. In Scotland, the pioneering work of Paul Ysart from the 1930s onward preceded a new generation of artists such as William Manson, Peter McDougall, Peter Holmes and John Deacons. A further impetus to reviving interest in paperweights was the publication of Evangiline Bergstrom's book, Old Glass Paperweights, the first of a new genre. Working in hot glass, specifically, requires the utmost respect for the material.

Stained Glass

Glass breaks in interesting ways that can turn a seemingly docile and soft form into a razor-sharp weapon. Huge masses of it can appear weightless and ghostly, such as the work of Roni Horn. I try to talk to the glass and understand it; merge with it to achieve an utterly harmonious connection between my heart and the material.

In the 1920s a new mould-etch process was invented, in which art was etched directly into the mould so that each cast piece emerged from the mould with the image already on the surface of the glass. In the 20th century, mass-produced glass work including artistic glass vessels was sometimes known as factory glass. I developed the genre of calligraphic lampworking, where glass is used as “ink” to draw spontaneous marks in three-dimensional space. The work is often inspired by my own personal recollections and those of others.

Then last year, he was honored again by the City of Los Angeles, which designated the intersection of First Street and State Street as Robert Vargas Square. He recently completed a 150-foot-tall mural of Los Angeles Dodger Shohei Ohtani on the outer wall of The Miyako Hotel’s flagship Little Tokyo hotel in Downtown L.A. This month, steel is being celebrated in a different way at the city’s Carnegie Museum of Art.

The domestic space is a stage and dwelling becomes performing; the user becomes an actor and spectator to the routines of daily life,’ concludes the practice. A ground floor shop in a banal and narrow 1970s housing block gets a second life by architecture practice fala atelier. Sited in Porto, the building now houses an apartment for two, with a clear program but an ambigious layout. Waves of glass brick and clouds of metal mesh intertwine to transform this originally non domestic space. Hand-painted floors were the jumping-off point for designer Amy Peltier’s soothing primary bedroom design. “It was so much work, but it turned out beautiful.” The firm wanted the space to feel “light and airy and breezy,” and incorporated fabrics and wall coverings by Thibaut in a soft color palette.

When the piece competes with my own body, I reach a place where I want to be. Freezing the moment when the piece is created in hot glass and preserving this moment for thousands of years. Liquid/Sunshine/I am a Pluviophile (2018) is inspired by unstable weather in the Hokuriku region, where I live in Japan. There are more than 200 raindrop-shaped glass pieces with phosphorescent material hanging from the ceiling in a darkened room with a motion detector. The conservatory housed vulnerable and endangered tropical rainforest plants from northern Australia, Indonesia, Papua New Guinea, and Pacific Islands. It was designed by Australian architect Guy Maron, using toughened glass to encase the curvilinear building.

While we may all be familiar with glassblowing, we may be less so with other styles such as fused or knitted glass art. As a nature lover residing on an island, fringed by a spectacular barrier reef, Greg Dietrich's work is inspired by the exotic marine life that abounds in the surrounding waters. Dolphins, sea turtles, manta rays, eagle rays, thousands of tropical fish and other coral reef dwellers inhabit these Carribbean waters. His marine art brings these images to life in unique hand blown glass lamps, sculpture, vases, bowls and other glass objects. Kiev-based glass artist Nikita Drachuk (aka Glass Symphony) sculpts glass spiders, octopi, slugs, and other critters by hand.

Often, you may not want to focus on massive pieces or master-level techniques—this spurs exciting room for collaboration or working with more experienced makers in other mediums. Working with it as an artistic medium can involve physical and mental strain, great expense, and a high chance of failure. And yet artists and designers who work with glass can shape it into anything from ethereal vessels to dynamic installations that resemble liquid. Glass is unmatched when it comes to the creative potential it offers.

The Gardners have been tempted to buy more glass art but have restrained themselves for fear of making their condo look like a glass warehouse. Since then, the St. Petersburg area has become a mecca of glass art, with stunning works available at McClellan’s gallery, the Imagine Museum, the Morean Arts Center and the Syd Entel Galleries in Safety Harbor. Independent glass studios are also springing up throughout the Tampa Bay area.