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Beautiful Fragment: Iridescent Glass from the Romans
Collage Meets Glass: Les Gemmaux de France
This piece caught my eye at the Corning Museum of Glass. It was mounted in front of a lightbox and the colors of glass emerged in glowing layers. Before I started making mosaics, I made collages with magazine paper and the Gemmail technique is like having those scraps of paper turn to glass. Artist Jean …
Beauty in the Ionic Structure of Glass by Dominick Labino
Our 2014 pilgrimage to Corning Museum of Glass brought us in front of Dominick Labino’s Ionic Structure of Glass, 5 feet across, set into a wall, backlit and glowing like a rose window. It hasn’t been on display for 15 years, since the first renovation of the Corning Museum. Labino was an industrial engineer who …
goldfish in Orange: Rene Lalique Vase, Formose (Formosa), 1924
The Lalique exhibit at The Corning Museum of Glass (until January, 4, 2015)is a treasure trove of orange. Stratoz took this photo of the Formose goldfish vase for me. The fins flow gracefully together enveloping the surface. It was made by blowing a gather of hot glass into a mold ~ mold-blown glass.
Wordless Wednesday: Numbers Plate by Laura de Santillana
Numeri(Numbers) Plate, Laura de Santillana at Corning Museum of Glass
Orange Vase by Tiffany: Creature in Glass
Stratoz took a photo of this intense orange glass vase by Tiffany at the Philadelphia Museum of Art on Sunday. It’s called “Vase” which isn’t very descriptive, but I’m guessing it’s a shrimp? I love the swirls of the waves. Have you ever seen a shrimp as a motif in art? Dream Garden Mosaic by …
The American Studio Glass Movement and Harvey K. Littleton’s Gift of a New Material for Artists
On my very first trip to Corning Museum of Glass in 1995, I was smitten with the work of Harvey K. Littleton, and intrigued by the idea that Studio Glass Art had not always existed. Littleton’s father Jesse was a physicist working at Corning, and his mother Bessie, turned her kitchen into a test kitchen, …