These Artists Are Taking Glass-Making to a Whole New Level

"Until recently, scientists could not agree whether the glass was a liquid or a solid that is rather crazy," said Cibeles Maylone. "Talk about the magical properties that make glass so beautiful artist. 

Maylone is the managing director of UrbanGlass, which was founded in 1977, it has grown from the back room of a ceramic studio in Soho into the largest manufacturer of glass in the United States.

This success underscores the growing popularity of glass between contemporary artists and artisans alike. Glass can be unforgiving medium, but it is incredibly versatile. It can be blown, poured, cut, flameworked filled with gas and lights. Approaching artists have become increasingly diverse - the combination of glass with videos to explore 3D printing or use it as an element in social practice or performance. 

What follows is the work of seven artists, each exploring the many possibilities of glass - from miniature cities forms for the glass seismograph function to durational performance.

Amber Cowan, Based in Philadelphia

Using vintage scrap and implementing glass factories, Cowan creates sculptures that sprout a table or wall like coral. His art is either utterly uniform in color and has a smooth flow. Cowan recycled material allows both the history of the industry from pressed glass and personal accounts to involve her audience. 

Cowan explains that "many people recognize colors or pieces in my work because their parents or grandparents are made from pressed glass. People across the country send me the old or broken glass, which I use in my sculptures in the trash can of American design, telling stories of objects on often abandoned. "  

Gemeinschaft und Zusammenarbeit auch helfen, Ihre Praxis zu steigern. Wie die meisten Glaskünstler, funktioniert sie nicht isoliert. Sie sagt, dass „da Glas in der Regel mehr Personen erfordert in der Herstellung von Teilen ausüben, wird die Gemeinde in der Nähe ist und ständig inspirierend. Es ist eine große, dysfunktionale Familie. " 

Thaddeus Wolfe, Based in Brooklyn, New York 

Wolfe is always well-known, both inside and outside the design world, for her improvised glass lamps, sculptures, and vessels that seem to be Tessellate crystal formations as they grow in underground caves. He uses silica plaster molds to create their colorful artwork, having found that configuring the glass freehand on a hot shop will not give you the control you want. The images are destroyed during the cold working (cutting and polishing) step of the process so that each object leaves only. 

Instead of working with a variety of materials, as many artists do, Wolfe has dedicated to the craft of glass. He says, "I am loyal because their material properties give me inspiration and challenges. It seems to have endless possibilities while many have limitations ".

In New York City - Bryan McGovern Wilson

Wilson's performance recalls the phrase coined by science fiction author Arthur C. Clarke that any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic. His projects often integrated into Glass's returns, using the material to explore the links between science and alchemy. 

For his 2009 performance "trinity pilgrimage," Wilson made a ride to Trinidad nuclear take a look at the website online in new Mexico dressed as dr. J. Robert Oppenheimer (one of the atomic physicists accountable for the introduction of the nuclear bomb). Wilson travel trinitite series involved an original radioactive form of glass, which changed into the made from 1,945 atomic guns take a look at. 

His resulting series "Trinity Reliquiar" (2010-present), small trinitite contemporary pieces of glass beads hung in and reminded us of our core story unpleasant. Wilson sees the ship with the ability to connect the past with the future. He says, "as a tradition, glass processing has remained relatively unchanged for centuries, if not millennia. With sufficient care in the design and cooling, glass made by man exists in geological periods.  

Flavie Audi, Based in London 

A glass of visual pleasure often arises from a complete paradox: how can an object appear to be fluid, however, so stiff? Like Bernini's marble flesh, miraculously it embodies the opposite. It is the offer until touched. Audi spectacular stained glass looks particularly fluid. 

Her "Rock Fluid" is a series of blown glass stains, a pigment, and the precious metals shake when pierced. In his video work "Landscapes of Mass Replication," a collaboration with the artist Samantha Lee, Audi spots come alive, vibrant and hilly. 

Beyond the middle of the video, the French-Lebanese artist also deals with 3D modeling and rapid prototyping. Audi says that "what interests me is how to combine new technologies, with old techniques and traditional hand-making. The tools that we have today are so powerful in shaping our reality and thinking about its possible new forms and new behaviors attributed to future landscapes as these tools can inform new contemporary aesthetics? " 

Norwood Viviano, Based in Plainwell, Michigan 

Viviano last point of the work, which examines the relationship between manufacturing and population growth, is characterized by its roots inspired Michigan. Growing up in Detroit in the 70s and 80s, he experienced first hand how the loss of automobiles destroyed the area. "Industries Mining" Viviano is a series of glass blocks cast crowned with printed 3D models from cities such as Detroit, Houston, and Seattle, generated by LiDARar data (laser technology topography, which is used to create maps high resolution). 

Although driven by research and record, the complexity and wealth of work are very attractive, and intimidation is not. And while the artist uses industrial materials such as ceramics, steel, and glass, the cumulative effect is one of delicacy. He says, "the fragility of the glass serves as a metaphor for the balance between time, efficiency, manufacturing and inability to meet future demands." 

Asa Jungnelius Based in Stockholm and Mansamala, Sweden 

Jungnelius lists Louise Bourgeois, Walter De Maria, Pierre Huyghe, the feminist motion and strategies of traditional Venetian glass between its various effects. The artist's Swedish work is also of high capacity, starting with small totems of femininity - perfume bottles and lipsticks - for large-scale installations and public art. 

A current project is a design for the roof of a new subway station in Stockholm, which mimics the battlements surface and pink glow of a shell, but on a monumentality. She says, "the brightness of the material entices observers." She uses the visual appeal of the crystal with a broader range of topics that hook the viewer, including feminism, environmental sustainability, and the economy. 

Andy Paiko, Based in Portland, Oregon 

Steampunk something about the work of Paiko, which is extravagant, but functional. His objects point to a world in which glass plays a more useful, even technological role. These include the "Undefined Sun # 6 (2015), a collection of paint similar to lab equipment more elegant civilization, including glass bells covered with shells and coral glass. 

Also, glass uses incredible kinetic sculptures to create - a spindle of glass wool to yarn, a glass metronome keeps time, and a seismograph glass precisely measures the vibration of the earth. Although their primary concern is a function, expressing the artist does not shy away from embellishment. His work is often surprisingly beautiful, gaining enormous popularity with collectors. 

Source: artsy