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Study Module for Owens Corning Lobby Entrance

Artist Thomas Patti (American, b. 1943)

Date1994-1996

DimensionsH: 11 ½ in.; L: 19 1/2 in.; Depth: 2 ¼ in.

MediumColorless and transparent blue glass and red glass fiber, fused, hot-formed.

ClassificationGlass

Credit LineGift of Ann and Glen Hiner

Object number

2013.184

Not on View

DescriptionRectangular glass block composed of a fused grid of commercial colorless and colored float glass with a composite of treated, colorized and fused glass fiber products. While the front’s fire-polished flat and smooth surface provides a view into the fiber-like pattern of colored glass threads, the back retains the three-dimensional grid structure of the fused panels with a rough, textured surface imparted by the mold. The block is set into a frame of brushed steel bands supported by a welded-on stand of two parallel, circular rods.

Published References

Cf. Miro, Marsha, "Public Glass: Tom Patti in Toledo," Glass, no. 67, Summer 1997, pp. 40-43.

Warmus, William, Tom Patti: Illuminating the Invisible, Tacoma, WA, Univ. of Washington Press, 2004, p. 45.