Still Life with Pear
Artist: Flora Mace (American, born 1949)
Artist: Joey Kirkpatrick (American, born 1952)
Date: 1992-1994
Dimensions:
Acorn squash: 14 1/4 x 11 1/4 in. (36.2 x 28.6 cm);
Pear: 22 1/4 x 14 7/8 in. (56.5 x 37.8 cm);
Eggplant: 26 5/8 x 11 1/8 in. (67.6 x 28.3 cm);
Black wooden bowl: 4 1/4 x 37 1/4 in. (10.8 x 94.6 cm)
Medium: Blown glass, painted alderwood
Place of Origin: Seattle, Washington
Classification: Glass
Credit Line: Gift of Dale and Doug Anderson in honor of Dorothy and George Saxe
Object number: 1996.28A-D
Label Text:The oversize fruit “still lifes” of Flora Mace and Joey Kirkpatrick are intended to, in their words, “confront the viewer and awaken our appreciation of the visual world around us.” Their unique method of coloring their glass “evolved out of our experience using the two dimensional painting tradition. As in painting, we have learned to build layers of color by sifting colored crushed glass powders onto hot glass during the blowing process. It was exciting to find a method of ‘painting’ onto three dimensional blown glass, creating forms with a painterly surface of realistic color and textures.”
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