A Rainbow Like You
Artist: Katherine Gray (Canadian, born 1965)
Date: 2015
Dimensions:
Table: 37 × 54 × 33 in.
Medium: Blown glass, acrylic, lighting
Classification: Glass
Credit Line: Purchased with funds from the Anderton Bentley Fund, Gift of Friends of Carl Staelin, Gift of Doreen C. Spitzer in memory of Mr. and Mrs. Ward M. Canaday, and Gift of Rabi Raffi Soleimani in memory of Raffi Soleimani, by exchange
Object number: 2019.23
Label Text:A Rainbow Like You is both glass and light installation. In this rainbow-hued work, Katherine Gray uses traditional blown vessels and theatrical lighting to express ideas about the transmission of light through another mode of glassmaking—stained glass. Often found in houses of worship, light filtered through stained glass is usually transmitted from high above to congregants seated below. Gray seeks to reverse this action and its implications, projecting light from below to create a rainbow as a colorful mural, evoking glass’s ability to refract light into its color spectrum.
Gray is also commenting on the crowded display of glassware found in thrift stores today, which give greater visibility to the transparent and sometimes overlooked material that is so common to our everyday lives. Each of the glasses that are placed chromatically on the clear table was blown by Gray and collectively represent various styles from the history of global glassmaking.
Gray is also commenting on the crowded display of glassware found in thrift stores today, which give greater visibility to the transparent and sometimes overlooked material that is so common to our everyday lives. Each of the glasses that are placed chromatically on the clear table was blown by Gray and collectively represent various styles from the history of global glassmaking.
DescriptionSupported by a clear, acrylic table, various shapes and sizes of blown colored glass vessels sit atop the table. Underneath and slightly in front of the table are two large theatrical lights that project light from below the table onto the adjacent wall. The work is meant to be displayed near a wall in order to have the colorful mural properly seen behind the work. The various vessels on the table are organized chromatically and have specific placements to create the reflect mural on the wall.
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