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Amber Cowan’s Recent Glass Assemblages

Similar to collage, Amber Cowan remixes and combines vintage glass pieces by "flameworking, blowing, and hot-sculpting" them into new creations. In her recent work, pieces that span centuries combine for intricate, mythological works. Cowan was last featured on HiFructose.com here.

Similar to collage, Amber Cowan remixes and combines vintage glass pieces by “flameworking, blowing, and hot-sculpting” them into new creations. In her recent work, pieces that span centuries combine for intricate, mythological works. Cowan was last featured on HiFructose.com here.



“[Her] work asks universal questions about rebirth, knowledge, desire and the transformative powers of labor and imagination,” a recent statement says. Her pieces are made by re-working pressed glassware produced by some of the best known, but now-defunct, American glass factories. Simultaneously patriotic and subversive, Cowan’s objects explore the texture of material seduction and recount the history of US glass manufacturing; tracinging its rise, glory and demise and its influence on society.”

See more of her recent work below.

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