Geek Art Gallery

Sachs creates beautiful lighting fixtures in imitation of chemistry lab equipment.  The results are a beautiful, if perhaps a bit impractical.

"This is the first in a series of four freestanding life-size kimonos representing the four seasons during different times of day. This kimono features the endless color changes evident in both an autumn changing landscape as well as an ever-changing sunset sky. This kimono is made of 19 separate pieces of woven glass supported by a metal mannequin. At 125 pounds, this kimono is the largest woven glass sculpture in the world."

Aoki creates exquisite glass sculptures inspired by her fascination with the visible and invisible qualities of the medium. What at first appears to be high-speed macro photographs of water droplets, turn out to be physical stationary sculptures carefully crafted from glass.

She often derives her inspiration from the forms found in microscopic life such as spores, fungi, viruses or even sperm. With a masterful command of light and glass, Aoki depicts these propagating life forms in a haunting yet beautiful fashion, which she calls “singing glass.”

A series of blown glass lights meant to focus attention on how energy is used by the human body.

"Following an International Visiting Artist Fellowship, Jessica was awarded an Arts Council Wales and Wales Arts International grant to undertake a research and development project at Urban Glass, New York. Collaborating with internationally renowed glass artists and neon specialists she produced new sculptural anatomical neon artwork inspired by biological electricity, the prescence of natural electrical activity in the human body."

Part of the Trauma exhibition at London's GV Art gallery. The pieces all relate in some way to physical and psychological trauma inflicted on the body, contributed by a range of artists working in collaboration with medics. Trauma is free and will be on exhibit at the GV Art gallery at 49 Chiltern Street, West London, through February 18.

I was just about to breeze past this video about creating glass signs while browsing the net last night, when I noticed a comment about how amazing the artist's website is. Always interested in a good webdesign, I clicked through and was stunned. The site is gorgeous (completely wasted on a site without a steampunk design), so I watched the video.

It's worth seeing. David A Smith creates ornamental glass & sign that look like something out of an English Pub movie set. This documentary takes a look at how Smith, one of the few remaining traditional UK glass artists, uses traditional techniques like gilding, silvering, and etching to create ornate glass signs and windows with aesthetics from Victorian to Art Nouveau. Time-lapse sequences offer a surreal glimpse of Smith dexterously floating giant panels of glass around his studio, gently pressing them against grinders to carve the distinctive beveled patterns and fonts so familiar from vintage pubs or storefronts.