SCULPTURE
Artists Links
| Jay Macdonell | Sue Parke | Italo Scanga | Andy Snyder |
| Mel Munsen | Susan Rankin | Gary Slater |
Macdonell has been blowing glass since 1992. He completed a traditional apprenticeship at Robert Held Art Glass in 1996. Jay was taken under the wing of maestro Daniel Vargas in his first few years there and learned much from his innovative and dynamic style of glassblowing. Macdonell was the exhibition director for the B.C. Glass Arts Association from 1995 to 1998 and president in the 1996/1997 term. Jay works for Starfish Glassworks in Victoria as a glassblower and gaffer. In 2000, Jay won the Tiffany Glass scholarship to attend Pilchuck Glass School where he was nominated for The Corning Award for excellence. He has attended Pilchuck as T.A. to Randy Walker, Preston Singltary and Katherine Grey for which he was nominated for the Saxe Award for excellence in 2002 and 2003. Over the years Jay has been involved with Pilchuck in various capacities including gaffer, visiting artist, poleturner, and teacher. The Bronfman family has purchased his work for their Clairidge Collection and his goblet design was chosen by the Washington State Wine Commission for their annual restaurant awards.
Image:
Articulated (Poppy red cane with cherry red and tangerine orange)
2009
Glass
46 x 10 x 9 inches
Munsen came to his current fusing and murrini techniques through a fascination with Venini's production of designs by Carlo Scarpa of the '30s, '40s and '50s and then later by his son Tobia. Munsen's own murrini work show. He is virtually without peer in his sense of design and technical perfection. Munsen somehow manages to present incredible detail with a flowing sense of rhythm. The artist's color sense is lively and yet maintains a richness through many pockets of subtlety. To further engage the effect of the color, Munsen polishes his pieces down until they are unusually thin. This not only delivers a delicacy to the feel of the piece, but the process effects a translucency rarely-if-ever found in fused and slumped glass.
Image:
Wrinkle bowl – black & white with red stars
2007/2008
Fused and slumped glass
7-1/2 x 17 x 11 inches
Parke is known for her take-offs of British sculptor Henry Moore's work. Lately she has been working on a whimsical series of sculptures out of painted aluminum, including sculptures of Mounties and Fruit Bowls. Many of her sculptures include a functional element like a clock or a candlestick. Although most of her sculptures are coffee table size, she has been known to create large-scale works for the outdoors, including a recently finished 6' Blue Moose.
Sculpture:
Noah's Ark Mennorah
2004
Painted Aluminum
13 x 14 x 3 inches
Rankin lives and works from her home in Apsley, Ontario. Rankin graduated from Sheridan College in 1989. She has studied glass at Pilchuck Glass School on the west coast, Haystack School of Craft on the east coast and Penland School of Craft in North Carolina. In her 20 year career as a glass artist Rankin has drawn her inspiration from the landscape in which she lives. As an avid gardener she continues to explore the idea of garden through her vessel and sculptural works and is well know for her vibrant floral vessels. Rankin examines how glass has been used historically and transitions form and style with a contemporary feel.
Image:
Stack poles, May Green, Red & Orange installed outdoors
2009
Glass
Sizes range from 7’3” – 7’9”
Scanga was a sculptor and painter who fashioned many of his works from everyday items that blended cubist and folk art influences. His figures are androgynous although the artist worked from life. There is a naive and constructivist quality to the sculptures. Scanga had major shows at the Los Angeles County Museum, the Museum of Modern Art, NY, the Fogg Museum in Boston, the Art Institute of Chicago and the Corcoran Gallery before his death in 2001.
Sculpture:
Head # 22
1985
Oil on wood
24 x 14 x 14 inches
Slater is dedicated to producing the most innovative and highest quality sculpture. He has produced sculpture that is viewed around the world in public areas, galleries, in residences and estates. His specialty is creating distinctive three dimensional sculpture for interior and exterior spaces; from smaller, intimate garden sculpture to large corporate works. Geometric forms are the basis of Slater's sculpture.
Sculpture:
Untitled
circa 1970's
Stainless Steel
81 x 30 x 16 inches
Andy Snyder
Snyder is a Toronto based artist currently involved in a long term study of the female figure with a preference for marble, limestone and soapstone. He has a unique and individual style - innovative and new.
Sculpture:
Untitled (torso)
White marble
31 x 12-1/2 x 5 inches
