Kiln-Glass in Architecture at Bullseye Glass

 

If you’re interested in kiln-glass in architecture and find yourself in New York’s Westchester County this week, don’t miss Art into Architecture at the Bullseye Glass Resource Center New York Gallery, closing on Saturday.

This exhibit presents four “case studies” of artists who collaborated with fabricators, designers, and architects to create architectural-scale projects in kilnformed glass. Most of these artists don’t typically work in kiln-glass (or didn’t, at the time the work was created) but rather partnered with Bullseye to translate their visions. The presented projects include Jun Kaneko’s sanctuary windows inside Temple Har Shalom in Park City, Utah; Martha Pfanschmidt’s Northern Lights installation at the Casey Building in Portland, Oregon; Ellen George’s Bloom at The Nines Hotel, also in Portland; and Dante Marioni’s Bullseye Chandelier.

All of the works utilize kiln-glass in a different way. I could write a whole post on each artist – maybe I’ll have to do that, at some point. In the meantime, go catch the exhibit while you can; it’s not often one gets to glimpse kiln-glass processes “behind the scenes” in a gallery setting like this one.

(Some additional thoughts on collaboration here and here.)