Carrie Gustafson is one of several artists whose work is featured at D Scale. NECN Dream House recently visited Carrie in her studio. Carrie's art involves sandblasting pattern on to hand blown pieces. Prices range from $65 to $325.
See Carrie's video below.
http://www.necn.com/New-England-Dream-House/A-Real-Find-Carrie-Gustafson-/1232829653.html
"After a decade of making classic vessels with a Venetian-trained glass blower, my palette of colors and pattern language developed. I arrived at the inner light of the vessel by way of breath's imprint - blowing glass - and from sandblasting through the surface of multiple layers of colored "flash glass". This translucent "skin" couldn't have been thinner. Next, slicing vessels in half, I discovered sculptural forms and a new way of working: wall tapestries and sculptures built from interconnected and patterned shards. This direction, built upon a career of making vessels and lighting, returned me to my student days when I used translucent flower petals as if they were stained glass.
My work seeks to honor this lineage; to use the magic and radiance inherent in glass, to create a visual journal rooted in the spiritual undercurrent, which flows through all matter." Carrie Gustafson.

i saw some of your work on NECN two days ago;I believe you will go far;keep up the good work and naver be afraid to try new concepts. JOHN Jurczak
Posted by: john jurczak | February 06, 2009 at 01:26 PM