In elaborate detail, American artist Amber Cowan recycles vintage glass into sculptures that effervesce with botanical frills...
In elaborate detail, American artist Amber Cowan recycles vintage glass into sculptures that effervesce with botanical frills and nostalgic motifs. Many of her pieces delve into the phases of popularity and eventual decline of glassware, lamenting that by the end of the 20th century, inexpensive pressed milky white and coloured glass candy dishes, vases, and novelties – once proudly displayed in American homes – had fallen from favour.
In his new body of work titled Loops, Jonas Noël Niedermann plays with the possibilities of colour, shape, and light. The Swiss artist is known for his keen interest in the malleable, varied properties of glass, and through a variety of hot and cold sculpting techniques, he creates elegant rings in a spectrum of jewel tones. Because of their curved and bowed edges, the delicate pieces shift in depth and colour when viewed from different perspectives as sides appear layered or folded in. A brass finish also coats the bottom of each sculpture to accentuate the way light catches and casts prismatic shadows through the material.
