Breaking Glass and Gloomy Skies Inspire This Artist
THE NEW YORK TIMES
By Ted Loos
Artists and designers who work with ceramics and glass might be thought of as delicate types. After all, they specialize in works that can easily break.
But the converse tends to be true. It requires steady-handed bravery to blow glass or fire up a kiln, given the melting, explosions and shattering that are a normal part of the process.
Rui Sasaki fits this counterintuitive mold. She is soft-spoken but extremely dogged in her exploration of a tricky medium on a large scale, as with what is perhaps her best-known work, “Liquid Sunshine/I am a Pluviophile,” a commission for the Corning Museum of Glass in Corning, N.Y., which was on long-term view until January and is now part of the museum’s collection. [More]
By Ted Loos
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| “Liquid Sunshine/I am a Pluviophile,” a commission for the Corning Museum of Glass in New York, is the best-known work of Rui Sasaki. It is made of more than 200 raindrop-shape pieces of phosphorescent glass. Yasushi Ichikawa/Corning Museum of Glass |
