stephen rolfe powell’s teasers and screamers

This week has been challenging for me and I’m relieved that it’s Friday. I’m trying to shake up the energy and move it in a different direction.  Stephen Rolfe Powell’s edgy, colorful blown glass vessels are exactly what I need this morning, with colors that dazzle, shapes that defy logic and names that tickle the funny bone.

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Teaser, Autumn Jealous Cleavage, 38 x 18 x 18, blown glass

Teaser, Licking Purple Manic, 35.625 x 26 x 6.5, blown glass

Powell, who holds a Bachelor of Arts in Painting and Ceramics and a Master of Fine Arts in Ceramics, became obsessed with glass while in graduate school and he has devoted more than twenty years to studying, teaching and making art with the hot, molten material. A colorist at heart, he says that each time he made the shift to a different medium (painting, ceramics, glass) it was because he wanted to see color in a different way – with glass, he knowingly and successfully “exploits the way light interacts with color”.

Screamer, Intrepid Yearning Gaze, 40.75 x 26.5 x 14.25, blown glass

Video interview with the artist here

More at Marta Hewett Gallery

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