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Latitude 90.07

Artist Sylvie Vandenhoucke (Belgian, born 1969)

Date2006

DimensionsH: 10 5/8 in. (27 cm); W: 10 5/8 in. (27 cm); D: 3/8 in. (1 cm) [dealer]

MediumColorless and brownish-yellow glass, crushed, molded, fused (pâte-de-verre technique)

ClassificationGlass

Credit LinePurchased with funds from the Libbey Endowment, Gift of Edward Drummond Libbey

Object number

2007.27

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Label TextBelgian artist Sylvie Vandenhoucke creates delicately structured objects with subtle surfaces that invite close looking. Many of her works are developed from a single, flat surface, similar to paintings. She uses extremely fine granules of glass that are pressed into a paste and fused together (a technique called pâte de verre, French for glass paste), a demanding process that stretches back to the 2nd-millennium BCE. The projecting surface details play with light and shadow to create actual and illusory designs. Vandenhoucke says of her work, “orderly patterns slide into chaos; snow-like softness sharpens into angled fins; superficial marks deepen into vents; changing light through a window unmasks lengthening patches of color as shadows."Exhibition HistoryBullseye Gallery, Portland, OR, Trace: Cockburn, Vandenhoucke, Vitkovsky, November 28 2006 - January 13, 2007.