Category Archives: Glass

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While researching fiber artist Kate Anderson I came across several other artists from around the world who share the name Kate Anderson. Today’s post features three of them.

One name. Three artists. Three distinctly different voices. Enjoy.

{Click on each artist’s name to jump to their website}

 

Kate Anderson – Fiber Artist

 

O’Keeffe Brush Teapot, knotted waxed linen

O’Keeffe Brush Teapot, back


Jim Dine Teapot, knotted waxed linen, stainless steel, aluminum

“Making sculptural art forms by utilizing the repetitive basketry technique called knotting forms the basis of my work regarding content and the blurred edges where art and craft meet.

High-art/low-art references come into play by utilizing the teapot, a common craft object, as my sculptural archetype juxtaposed with images appropriated from the world of “high art”.

Quotation, allusion, abstraction, and art/craft references all play a part as the knotting process simultaneously creates both structure and image.”

 

Kate Anderson – Mosaics

 

 

Where Shadows Go

The Myth of Place

Kate Anderson, glass mosaic artist

“The medium of mosaic allows me to interpret themes beyond the purely decorative. I see the contradiction in mosaic – that of its being solid, fixed, and yet containing such an urge to movement in design as sympathetic to the language of symbols which I explore.

Symbols survive through cultural changes, but the movement of time adds layers to their meaning.

I aim to produce work that stimulates the imagination and is thought provoking.

Work for exhibition takes me from the illustrative to the semi-abstract. Ideas are constantly excavated and reassembled.”

 

Kate Anderson – Illustrator/Animator

 

Village

Still images from the animation “Displacement Song”


You can view all of the award winning artist’s animation shorts on her website.

bronwen heilman is bringing her classes to the internet

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Glass artist Bronwen Heilman wants you to know that she will soon be teaching online workshops. The Arizona artist, who travels all over the country to teach, is one of nearly 50 creative professionals signed up for Teaching Art Online, the only class that teaches artists how to create online classes.

Jazz Bracelet
recycled bicycle inner tube, flameworked bottle glass, sterling silver

Heilman, an award winning studio artist and flamework glass instructor, currently teaches a variety of workshops including glass beadmaking, glass casting, flameworking bottle glass and fusing window glass.

I first became aware of Bronwen’s work a few years ago when I saw a bead she painted using vitreous enamels. There was something so lovely about the expressive bead – the eyes kept me lingering on it, wondering about the story behind the face.

Bracelet
bicycle inner tube, flameworked bottle glass, spent 22 shells

Her current body of work has a strong focus on recycled glass. Heilman is passionate about this aspect of her art, explaining, “My thirst is to reuse unwanted and discarded items into something genuine and true to my being. I go out of my way to find the right materials before they end up in the landfill and repurpose them in order to create this body of work.”

Ring
flame worked bottle glass, bicycle inner tube, spent 22 shells, steel, sterling silver

Oh, how I wish I could show you her latest creations but she’s not quite ready to reveal them yet. Think bold statement. Think beautiful colors. Think flowers. Think glass and wire. They are quite different from what we’ve seen from her and really exciting!

Bronwen Heilman’s website

 

Next Up For Bronwen Heilman & YOU!

When I wrote to Bronwen asking if I could let DAM readers know she was taking the class she immediately wrote back with this response:

“Yes! I want people to know that I will be teaching workshops via the Internet. And I figure, why reinvent the wheel,? You have done a ton of research and figured out what works best. That is your genius work. Mine is to make my work. And taking your TAO class will afford me to do this!”

The lineup of artists who have registered include textile, glass, polymer, precious metal clay, metal, jewelry and fine artists  - I can’t wait to see the classes they offer after completing the course.

I look forward to helping Bronwen bring her classes to students around the world – and I want to help you too. Ready to learn how to bring your art class or workshop to large numbers of students? There are still a few seats left: Teaching Art Online

Class starts Monday, April 23, 2012. Students have unlimited, lifetime access to all course materials. See you in class!

 

P.S. Receive a $25 discount when you refer a friend and she/he signs up for the class!

 

 


 

 

seung hee lee’s glass/copper sculpture and jewelry

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Korea’s Seung Hee Lee mixes lampworked and cast glass with electroformed copper in these beautiful sculptures. I couldn’t find much information about the artist but the work stands out and tells me everything I need to know. Stunning way to end the week.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

The artist also creates glass jewelry. These glass jewels are not for someone who doesn’t want to draw attention to themselves – meant for a bold personality. Consider yourself warned!

 

 

Seung Hee Lee’s website

 

 

 

graham caldwell: glass, steel and epoxy

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Graham Caldwell works primarily in glass – he says it is the material he always comes back to, often mixing blown glass with steel and epoxy to create free standing or wall sculptures and large-scale installations.

blown glass, steel epoxy
21 x 25 1/4 x 18

steel, epoxy, blown glass, 21 x 30 x 16″

I’m intrigued by the two untitled pieces above – fragments of curved, blown glass held together by steel supports- the sculptures have a molecular feel to them, don’t you think?

Round Out, blown and silvered glass, epoxy, lacquer
17 x 26 3/4 x 8 1/4″

Moon Jellies, glass, steel, hardware, LED’s
23 x 31 x 22″

The Widow Maker, glass, steel, 44 x 67 x 19″

Manifold, blown glass, steel, 60 x 84 x 24″

 

Watch Caldwell install a stunning, large-scale piece that hangs from the ceiling of the US embassy in Kyiv.

 

 

Graham Caldwell’s website

More images at G Fine Art Gallery

 

 

wendy newhofer’s framed glass and wire imagery

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Former primary school teacher Wendy Newhofer now works as a full time artist combining metal leaf, wire and sheets of float glass to create the painterly pieces you see here.

Newhofer doesn’t use colored glass – instead, she creates color in each piece by sandwiching copper, pewter, aluminum and silver leaf with wire between sheets of window glass, allowing the colors of the leaf and wire to bleed into each other. Lovely.

 

 

“I make expressive glass pieces that have a painterly quality to them.  A combination of glass and metal in the form of precious leaf and wire enables me to draw within the glass and creates a palette of subtle colours when the glass is fired. There is a magical alchemy to this process which can be unpredictable but gives each piece its individual character.” Wendy Newhofer

 

 

Wendy Newhofer’s website