Barry Sautner

American, 1952 - 2009

BiographyBarry R. Sautner had been carving and experimenting with glass since 1979. With the encouragement of Dr. and Mrs. Leonard S. Rakow of New York City, founders of the Rakow Library at the Corning Museum of Glass, he mastered the ancient art of creating diatreta or cage cups, a lost art. In 1987, Barry was credited with having been the first person to create a double cage cup similar to those made antiquity, He also developed a new technique he termed “insculpture”, which consists of creating a three-dimensional design within a solid glass paperweight by carving through small openings at the base. Themes in his work range from a stunning reflection of nature and classical forms, to more current topics such as the Holocaust, aging, and modern communications. Barry's work has been included in a variety of museums and public collections, such as the Berstrom-Mahler Museum, the Newark Museum, the Corning Museum of glass, and the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston.

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