Busacca Gallery

Artist Jamie Harris: My recent work has focused on assembling manipulated solid glass elements. The Cut Outs wall installations are a playful take on Matisse’s late cardboard cut outs; here, solid geodes, layered with color, are sliced in half to reveal abstractions of depth and shadow, acting as luminous floating fields of color.

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.