New York-based glass artist Dana Arbib has exhibited a sequence of hand-blown vessels and wall sconces from Murano glass that had been knowledgeable by gourds, brassicas and root greens.
The seventeen-piece assortment is called Vetro Otro, which interprets to “Glass Vegetable Backyard” and contains glass wall sconces, chandeliers, vases and bowls.
“The gathering Vetro Orto originated from the method of the glass itself, one thing rising, sprouting, altering type,” Arbib informed Dezeen.
“From a seedling to a gourd, from a grain of sand to a glass vessel — I attempted to seize the feel of the soil and seedlings, the essence of a bud, the motion of elongation and flourishing, and at last the form of a completely ripened type.”
Arbib used Murano glass in earthen tones of inexperienced, brown, purple and yellow throughout the gathering, which comprises natural kinds topped with protrusions and thick fingers of glass.
The Fiorire wall sconce incorporates a small, emerald inexperienced physique wrapped in bubbles of glass, whereas pale inexperienced stalks shoot upwards from its centre.
One other wall sconce, known as the Radice, comprises a metallic backing with a saffron-yellow sheath of glass wrapped across the entrance.
It was topped with columns of cherry purple glass that reach upwards from the underside.
The Rami chandelier comprises an amber bowl and metallic {hardware} that’s encased in the identical saffron yellow and pale inexperienced glass.
Curvilinear legs drift out from the central bowl and had been capped with textured orbs, with further orbs put in on the backside of the chandelier and alongside the column.
Vessels within the assortment embody the Pezzi Due vase, an earthy clay glass vase with skinny, snake-like handles and utilized natural spots.
The Carciofo vase options three emerald inexperienced legs topped with a wrinkled pale inexperienced physique, whereas the Petalo bowl was manufactured from an analogous three-legged amber base and a bowl adorned with off-white polka dots that had been extruded alongside its edge.
The items had been produced in Murano, Italy, the place Arbib has developed relationships with grasp glass artisans.
Vetro Otro is on present at TIWA Gallery as a part of TIWA Choose, a showcase that seeks to champion self-taught artists and makers.
“Dana’s items in Vetro Orto proceed to exhibit her fascination with the complexities of patterns discovered within the pure world,” stated TIWA Choose founder Alex Tieghi-Walker
“The items mimic fractals and logarithmic sequences that push the bodily capabilities of glass in a spectacular trend.”
TIWA partnered with Alan Eckstein of Queens-based classic design gallery The Somerset Home on the exhibition design. The workforce displayed Arbib’s work amongst a variety of classic tables, chairs and different furnishings together with items by Alvar Aalto and Tucker Robbins.
Dana Arbib beforehand labored within the design business earlier than pivoting to glasswork in 2022 after studying a member of the family was a glass blower in Venice within the early 1900s. Her inaugural glassware assortment, Vetro Alga, or “Seaweed Glass” paid homage to marine crops within the Venetian Lagoon.
Different current glassware exhibitions embody Helle Mardahl’s Wes Anderson-inspired glass objects displayed in a Copenhagen condo and a large sculpture manufactured from glass cylinders put in on an Apple campus by Zeller & Moye and Katie Paterson.
The pictures is by Brian W Ferry.
Vetro Otro is on present at TIWA Gallery in New York Metropolis from 20 September to 17 October 2023. For extra exhibitions, occasions and talks in structure and design, go to Dezeen Occasions Information.
