Arts in Aspen-Paintings in Glass by Roger Thomas

December 9, 2007

PISMO Gallery at Aspen, Aspen’s foremost gallery for glass art, will present a solo exhibition, “New Destinations”, of kilnformed glass paintings by artist Roger Thomas. The show will open with an artist reception on December 27th from 6:00 to 9:00 pm and will continue through January 17, 2008.

A stained glass artist in the early 1970s, Roger Thomas began experimenting with fused glass in 1984. Glass fusing or kilnformed glass is a process in which individual pieces of glass are melted together to form larger, designed pieces.

When creating his glass paintings he works face down beginning with a clear base plate on which he layers glass sheets, crushed or powdered glass, glass strings and shards, working from front to back, from transparent to opaque. With this reverse layering technique, he must not only be able to envision a finished piece; but he must actually construct the piece working backwards.

Thomas approaches the glass as a pictorial medium fusing the glass into panels that hang on the wall as paintings. His works range from landscapes to abstractions; “somewhere in between the two” is most meaningful to him. He says, “I choose to work in kilnformed glass because I feel it is a new, unformed medium, without too many rules to learn. That and because its limitations force you to get pretty creative when searching for solutions.”

Thomas recently returned to glass after a two year absence saying it is essential to his daily existence, “I think you make art because nothing else completes you. It is not a good career choice; you just have to do it to feel whole.”

For More Information Visit www.pismoglass.com

Written by debbie · Filed Under Arts

Comments

Got something to say?