Emergence XII
Artist: Dominick Labino (American, 1910-1987)
Date: 1972
Dimensions:
H: 22.9 cm (9 in.); W: 13 cm (5 1/8 in.); D: 8.6 cm (3 3/8 in.)
Medium: Colorless and colored glass, tooled, enclosing air bubble and veil forms
Classification: Glass
Credit Line: Gift of the Museum Ambassadors (formerly Art Museum Aides) in memory of Harold Boeschenstein
Object number: 1973.3
Label Text:Dominick Labino, a glass technologist for Toledo’s Johns-Manville Fiber Glass, Inc. before he retired to become a glass artist, was one of the first to successfully combine technological innovation and aesthetics in his studio-made glass. Labino had a lifetime curiosity about how glass items were made and felt that understanding the practical fabrication process was critical to making “glass art.” Emergence XII is casually formed, perhaps because he was working at the extreme edge of capability at the time. The organic form of the clear glass, its trapped elongated air bubble, and veils of color seem to manifest the liquid state inherent in all hot glasswork.
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