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    Bernard Katz Glass - Avelino in Venetian Red

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    Sale: $2,300.00
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    In his Sculptural Series, Bernard Katz combines magnificent color combinations and wonderful flowing forms reminiscent of forms found in nature to create a very contemporary piece of art. In this series, Bernard Katz carves away the brilliant outer layer of glass and sandblasts the inner layer, giving each piece a beautiful flow of soft translucent glass into brilliant colors the form created.

    Bernard designs and executes each piece himself, combining modern equipment and ancient techniques. His shapes are created by hand, blowing the molten glass into his 3 dimensional shapes which then become a canvas of glass onto which the final imagery will be etched.

    The artwork of Bernard Katz is featured in the following books: Contemporary Glass: Color, Light & Form and Object Lessons: Beauty and Meaning in Art by Guild Publishing.

    Approximately 27" x 13" x 5" - All Sizes Approximate. Colors May Vary.
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    David McDonald
    From the Sanskrit, "Mandala", as defined by Jung, is a geometric projection of the world, reduced to an essential pattern, used for contemplation or meditation.

    Fifteen years ago, David began to experiment with what he calls my Shield Mandalas. As always, he look to the natural world for inspiration. The shape of the shields is inherently organic, their contour made in a cloth sling, a natural arch. They remind him of a sand dollar, a mushroom cap, a tortoise shell, a shield. To describe their concave shape to anyone who hasn't seen them except on a flat web page, David would say that they also look a lot like a satellite dish with a foot-ring on the back, although not as deep. The shape really lends itself to working with glazes and design, he treats them like canvases.

    Each piece is decorated as a mandala: a circle telling a story. David frequently incorporate archetypal images in their design--ladders, pools of water, earthly and extraterrestrial landscapes, glimpses through microscopes and telescopes, and the four directions-- themes found in cultural arts from around the world.

    David pours as many as 7 glazes over one another, using hot wax brushwork to resist between the layers (like batik). Fired in a natural gas kiln in a reduction atmosphere to 2400 degrees Fahrenheit, the glazes boil and bubble in beautiful, often unpredictable ways. When the glazes fully melt, and smooth out at peak temperature, there often remains a distinct pattern on the surfaces, remnants of the glazes' pyrolytic molten creation. If viewed closely, one might think to compare these surfaces to hare's fur, butterfly wings, oil spots on water.