Busacca Gallery

The Mod series is about bright and loud movements of color. Though these pieces refer to traditional Italian wheel-cutting, my on-going experimentation in glass-carving focuses not on decoration but in the use of carving as line and form, turning the vessel wall into a Modernist canvas where the color spills out from within the piece. I have focused in recent years in creating architectural wall installations of these pieces, seeking a sense of dramatic movement by continuing linear motifs across multiple pieces of wall-mounted glass.

Link: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glass_art

Glass art is the use of glass as an artistic medium. Specific approaches include stained glass, working glass in a torch flame (lampworking), glass beadmaking, glass casting, glass fusing, and, most notably, glass blowing. As a decorative and functional medium, glass was extensively developed in Egypt and Assyria, brought to the fore by the Romans (who developed glassblowing), and includes among its greatest triumphs European cathedral stained glass windows. Great ateliers like Tiffany, Lalique, Daum, Gallé, the Corning schools in upper New York state, and Steuben Glass Works took glass art to the highest levels. Glass from Murano (also known as Venetian glass) is the result of hundreds of years of refinement and invention.