Gaga for Glass Art
My personal preferences when it comes to Contemporary Art - bodies, distortion, limbs, bright and neon colours, squares and lines, in all shapes and forms whether it be furniture, sculpture, painting, photography or large scale installation. Over time, however, I have developed a growing affinity towards Glass sculptures and am an avid follower of a few of my favourite contemporary glass-artists. Here's a few of favourites...
Rhoda Baer - “In truth, I believe my glass and photography have a lot in common. I enjoy bouncing back and forth and combining the two. Both are highly influences by my modern minimalist perspective and rely heavily on my desire to create work that communicates,” https://www.yellowtrace.com.au/rhoda-baer-sublime-glass-sculptures/
Ramon Todo - Born in Tokyo, this Dusseldorf-based artist creates beautiful textural juxtapositions using layers of glass in unexpected places. Starting with various stones, volcanic rock, fragments of the Berlin and even books, the artist inserts perfectly cut glass fragments that seem to slice through the object resulting in segments of translucence where you would least expect it. http://www.thisiscolossal.com/2013/10/ramon-todo-glass/ http://artfrontgallery.com/en/artists/Todo.html
Shayna Leib is a glass artist with 20 years experience in the field to-date. She studied Russian literature, glassblowing, and classical piano while completing her Bachelors of Art degree in Philosophy at California Polytechnic State University in San Luis Obispo, California. Accepted into a PhD Philosophy in New York, she chose instead to pursue a Masters of Fine Arts in glass and metal at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and graduated with her MFA in 2003. In 2008 she was honored with the American Style Award by Wendy Rosen. Shayna Leib’s work is in numerous private and public collections nationally and has been featured at SOFA Chicago and New York for the last decade. Her work can also be found in museums, worldwide blogs and magazines, and books Contemporary Lampworking, The Best of American Glass Artists Volume L-Z, and A História Do Vidro (A History of Glass). http://shaynaleib.com
Easily our favourite! Flavie Audi creates dazzled encounters with the sublime. Her works translate the mechanism of life and light and resemble fragments of an ethereal landscape or geology. The forms and gestures found in it capture a fleeting, living energy and suggest a certain ambiguity, hovering between digital screen and celestial body. In a dematerialised world where all is virtual and generic, her work seeks to define a new type of aesthetic and physical materiality. 2010 Graduated from the Architectural Association, RIBA Part II, London. 2014 Graduated from the Royal College of Arts, MA ceramics and glass, London. http://flavieaudi.com
Roni Horn - "Some of Horn’s cast glass sculptures appear as pools of water; all of them dramatise mutability. The sides of these works are translucent and rough-edged, having been in contact with the surface of the mould. By contrast their top surfaces are highly reflective, since here the glass has only been in contact with air during the casting process. Depending on the light around the sculpture and the position of the viewer, the works are surprisingly transparent, or dramatically reflective. The viewer intuits that though solid, the identity of the objects cannot be fixed, a condition which might mirror their own self-understanding." http://www.tate.org.uk/whats-on/tate-modern/exhibition/roni-horn-aka-roni-horn/roni-horn-aka-roni-horn-explore-exhibition-7