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Artist |
Zynsky, Toots |
Title |
Trillo |
Medium |
fused and thermo colored glass threads |
Date |
2016 |
Description |
Toots Zynsky (Boston 1951; lives and works in Providence, Rhode Island) Trillo, 2016 Fused and thermo formed colored glass threads Knoxville Museum of Art, 2016 gift of Mary Hale Corkran Toots Zynsky's fibrous heat-formed glass vessels interweave painting, sculpture, and other media. They are inspired by sources as varied as light, video art, textiles, and the optical power of color. During the early 1970s, Zynsky experimented with video and performance art and produced installations using slumped glass. Eventually she began forming vessels using long glass fibers and blown glass elements in a filet de verre (glass thread) technique similar to that used to create fiber optic lighting. To create each vessel, Zynsky arranges thousands of colored glass threads on a round heat-resistant fiberboard plate, and then fuses them inside a kiln. While the disc-like mass of fused threads is hot, she allows it to slump into a series of consecutively deeper and rounder preheated bowl-shaped metal forms. Finally, the artist reaches into the kiln with heat-resistant gloves and squeezes the glass into a unique undulating form. |
Catalog Number |
2016.11.01 |
Search Terms |
Glass Sculpture Women Artists |
Credit line |
gift of Mary Hale Corkran |