Busacca Gallery

Artist Jamie Harris: My Incalmo Orb series is an ever-changing examination of color modulation, evoking emotional responses through visual contrast. The Italian technique of incalmo—contrasting bubbles of glass joined together becomes a three-dimensional color field painting. I use traditional techniques in the hotshop, layering color into the surface, deconstructing the vessel and its traditional functionality by carving away at the glass surface. These strong bands of color combined with swooping lines merge the outside and inside of vessel into a deeply layered, unified presentation of color and space.

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.