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Gallery: Cast Glass Sculptures

My most recent projects have included experimentation with cast glass sculptures. These pieces are constructed inside forms or molds using many different layers of glass, and require a much longer fusing and annealing time than my thinner fused glass pictures. The combination of many overlapping thin translucent and dichroic layers gives the cast glass a unusually deep, 3-dimensional quality.

My cast glass sculptures are heavier than my fused glass pictures, and are usually mounted on granite or metal bases, although they can be removed from these bases. For some projects, organic materials like broccoli, seeds and lotus pods are cast in plaster and burned out of the mold at about 1200 F. Then the molds are filled with glass powders and fused at about 1500 F to create cast glass replicas of the original objects. Some of my cast glass sculptures have been inspired by scientific themes or natural patterns, while others are used to explore and express more personal ideas, as in the Shirley series.

Impulse
(kiln casting)
(7" x 9" x 7")
$700

Stretching
(kiln casting)
(11" x 14" x 4")
$800

Slice of Life
(kiln casting)
(14" x 8" x 4")
$900

In Vivo
(kiln casting)
(13" x 12" x 4")
$400

Invasion of H1N1
(kiln casting)
(13" x 12" x 4")
$400

In Vitro
(kiln casting)
(13" x 12" x 4")
[SOLD]

Split Personality
Shirley Series no. 1
(13" x 10" x 4")

Imprisoned in My Mind
Shirley Series no. 2
(13" x 10" x 4")

Drowning in Stuff
Shirley Series no. 3
(13" x 10" x 4")

Recycled Cathode Ray Tube (CRT) Glass

The Haiku Moon sculptures represent the autumn full moons of Japan that inspire Haiku poetry. During these times people often sit outdoors to watch the moon and drink tea and eat special cakes. The gray glass is recycled cathode ray tube (CRT) glass. It cannot be fused with other glass I use, but the CRT pieces have different amounts of impurities that show various shades of gray. The effect I tried to achieve was to show the full moon moving in and out of thin clouds. In Haiku Moon 1 the plant is copper foil embedded in the glass, and the red shrinking seed pod is made from cast glass powders. The cast glass broccoli in Haiku Moon 2 represents a tree. When I started creating Chillin, I was thinking about sitting in an alcove relaxing in Central Park. The green and clear spire represents trees and greenery surrounded by buildings. The little glass eye on all the sculptures is my signature/seal. These three sculptures are featured in a book entitled, Sculpture and Design with Recycled Glass, by Cindy Ann Coldiron, published in October 2011.

Haiku Moon 1
(kiln castings)
(13" x 12" x 4")
[SOLD]

Haiku Moon 2
(kiln castings)
(13" x 12" x 4")

Chillin'
(kiln castings)
(13" x 11" x 5")
[SOLD]

Inner Ear
(kiln castings)
(13" x 10" x 5")

Martian Microbe
(13" x 11" x 4")

Line Dancing
(kiln casting)