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Patternscapes - Collaborative Works with Helen Rudy
Patternscapes--a
collaborative collection of one-of-a-kind kilnformed and blown glass vessels
and platters—emerges from combining the expertise of fused-glass artist Helen
Rudy with that of soft-glass artist Corey Silverman. While there are similarities among overall
forms in this collection, each piece is unique thanks to the arrangement of colors and the ways in
which those colors “move” while worked in the hotshop.
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Rudy begins by creating layered “pattern bars”
of colored glass in the kilnforming studio, then cutting the brick-like slabs
into mini-bricks that are fused again into a flat tile of distinctive color and
pattern.
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In the hotshop, Silverman picks up the tile on a
collar of furnace glass, rolls it into a cylinder, and creates a bubble that is
in turn sculpted using traditional glassblowing techniques.
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Certain pieces incorporate an additional process
known as coldworking—the cutting, grinding, and polishing of angles and facets
into the blown vessel. This adds a level of precision, and sometimes texture,
that can’t be achieved in the hotshop alone.
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The result is a series of vessels and bowls with
intense colors and carefully controlled designs that are unlike anything
previously achieved through either kilnforming or blowing alone.
**Each piece is original, one-of-a-kind, signed and dated by both artists.**
