Radiant Inception
Artist
Michael Glancy
(American, 1950 – 2020)
Date2001
MediumGlass and copper
Dimensions(with base): 11 3/4 × 18 × 18 in. (29.8 × 45.7 × 45.7 cm)
ClassificationsGlass
Credit LineGift of Philip and Nancy Kotler, 2012
Object numberSN11325.9
Michael Glancy developed his highly personal visual vocabulary in the late 1970s and spent his career exploring this aesthetic through acid-cutting, sand-blasting, and electroforming glass. Glancy’s artistic output is distinctive for taking the industrial process of electroforming and making it his signature technique by applying it to glass. This metalworking technique uses electricity in a chemical bath to coat a surface with metal. The marriage of the vertical vessel and horizontal base is a hallmark of Glancy’s work, for which he carved intricate cell-like patterns inspired by nature, science, and metaphysics. In this mixed-media work, copper accents the deeply cut surfaces of the blue glass vase-like form and the industrial plate glass base, highlighting complex patterns of circles, crescent shapes and curved lines. As the metal oxidizes with its exposure to oxygen, Glancy considered his works to be living objects that change over time.
On View
On viewLocation
- Kotler-Coville Glass Pavilion, 1st floor, gallery, floor
