A New Year of Sofa

The fabulous SOFA Show (Sculptural Objects and Functional Art) began its 2012 season on April 20 in New York. From Fragment to Whole: Elongated Ovoid, Jeannet Iskandar Iskandar returns again this year with her blown glass sculptures. She builds her pieces in 3-D...

Glass Reflection of Favorite Things

Neil Wilkin creates some of my favorite things, out of my favorite medium. Icicle Shelf, Neil Wilkin Wilkin is a British artist inspired by forms and colors from the environment.He is considered one of the leading glass artists in the UK.  I find it interesting that...

Winter Glimmer

A couple of days ago I blogged about the Museum of Glass in Tacoma, Washington.  Today we go back there to highlight a current exhibit that puts me in the mood for some winter snow transformation. Glimmering Gone:  Landscape,  Ingalena Klenell and Beth Lipman, photo...

Reflecting Nature in Blown Glass

Glass artist Heather Gillespie creates some of my favorite works of art in the medium of blown glass. Heather Gillespie, Oyster Bowls Her oyster bowls look so molten, as if the glass is still moving, a viscous, shining river of color. Along with the craft of creating...

More SOFA, So Much to See

So much to choose from … I have to use this treasure trove of art to feed the blog this week.  It is a visual feast. Michael Glancy, Steel-Blue Witness, 2009 deeply engraved (radiation wave-cut) cast glass object, deeply engraved industrial plate glass, copper,...