Upcoming Exhibits

 “I discovered a passion for working with glass in college and went on to pursue an education in glass art. My interests in design and architecture and a background in glass blowing and fabrication formed the foundation for my body of work. As my art evolved I began to develop and create specialized techniques using plate glass and ultraviolet adhesives. These techniques lead me to depict a three-dimensional image of a vase using two-dimensional components. Over the years I have continued to re-define and re-compose my designs utilizing a myriad of colors, textures and shapes to create non-functional vessels that suggest containment. My sculptures focus on both the exterior and the interior form of the vessel. I describe volume on the outside while portraying an interior landscape of color and light. With a combination of rough and highly polished surfaces along with dyed adhesive I create three-dimensional paintings. Each piece is handcrafted and meticulously sculpted using cold -working techniques: cutting, stacking and laminating sheets of glass, to create volumetric forms. Each is designed to emphasize a unique intersection of form, color and light.

Along with my passion for glass lies my interest in technological advances of various formulations of ultraviolet adhesives, dyes and pigments. Working with industry leaders, I have been able to incorporate new colors and special effect pigments into my adhesive. These new color shifting pigments shift dramatically at different angles. At times the glass is transparent, at times opaque. And still at other times the light bounces off micron sized particles creating sparkles throughout the piece. This shift in color lead to the Shifting Transmission series. Viewer interaction is and has always been essential to my work as the viewer sees changing colors within each piece as they walk around it. With Shifting Transmission, I wanted to depict that movement and swirling of color in the helical shape of the pieces. I am a formalist in that I am intrigued by different kinds of structures in our environment and create art that adds to our enjoyment of that environment. As a visual artist, I make three-dimensional pieces that are best experienced by walking around each piece to view how it reacts to light, movement and the environment.”