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convenience sucks out your soul
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flameworked glass, oil paint, readymade. H42" x W32 x L29"
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as a follower of trends, i'm now thinking twice about using my hands solo. in this land of 0's and 1's, twosies are forging new paths where the road plys.
such darling duos, i say! the colourful coupling of so many side-by-side silicists has started a swordfight of sweet fire and ice in my soul, or is it loins? only the marvelous marriage at the junction of twindom and tandemnation can quell the dazzling duets of Two plus one minus one. wouldn't you corroborate?
in short, i double down for bi-design's rich bounty.
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flameworked glass, oil paint, readymade. 2008 H42" x W32" x L29" check it at Habatat Gallery Chicago, Ten:10 exhibition opening March 14th
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Matte Eskuche @ PhillyGlassWorks class taking place September 28,29 & 30 has spaces open. still taking registration until just before the class starts. check their website for details, eh? be there and be square.
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this is the latest encroachment of trash into my work. it will be in my solo show at Sandra Ainsley Gallery Toronto titled "dollar menu" opening feb 7th.
"99 billion served" glass, paper, ink, cardboard, velum, cellophane, money, steel, & found objects.
please take the time to fill out one of my surveys pertaining to education in flamework. see forum for more indepth description.
teachers got to: tinyurl.com/4m3mer
students go to: tiny url.com/67m4c9
program directors go to:
tinyurl.com/4slppl
... you for your time
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garden of fido
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monocromatic cups
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New Dynasty class on March 3rd & 4th. want to learn how to make 1:1 scale champagne bottles? i didn't think so.. but i will be promoting all the basics for small vessels at this Washingting D.C. area flameworking facility. come and join in the hijinks.
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Vodka Brazier accompanied by ShakerDildo Chaperone
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flameworked glass, petroleum
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Just got back from doing a class at the Corning Museum of Glass. thought i'd throw in a couple pics of the experience. glass camp rulz!!
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a new batch of claw tools is now available from Ess Vetro. two models, purpose built.
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pittsburgh next year, dont miss it
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Ya'll, I'm putting up some pictures of the demonstration I did in Australia this summer at the GAS conference. It's a pretty comprehensive look at the assembly of one of my large bottles. I'm going to be teaching at several schools this summer and hope to give a demo similar to what is shown towards the end of each class. I'm hoping to draw some students through glassartists since it's the largest grouping of torchers out there. Every time I get on the site I see new folks with great potential in flameworking, and hope to spread the knowledge that was given to me through instruction in glass. I hope everyone takes a class this summer. The schedules are filled with talent from school to school. Take anybodys class before mine, but if not check out my website www.blownglass.ws. On the teaching page are all the dates for the schools that I'll be at along with links to thier sites. Check out all the schools and all the folks teaching everywhere. Friends to be made, fun to be had, don't miss out.
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cups from 2002,3, & 4
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i tried to do a really laborious piece at each course last year. the blue are from Penland and Sheridan College in Toronto. the green, Revere Academy in Berkeley CA. i'm posting my schedule of classes for this year and can barely wait for all the crazy f's that i'll surely meet..
March 3 & 4 New Dynasty/Wash D.C. - intro
April 14 & 15 Flametree/Atlanta, GA - intro
April 20 - 22 Carlisle School of Flameworking, N.J. - advanced vessels and form consciousness
April 28 & 29 Craft Alliance/St. louis, Missouri - sculpture and small vessels
May 26 - 28 Snow Farm/Williamsburg, MA - intermediate vessels and form
June 25 - July 7 The Studio at Corning, NY - intermediate vessels and form
July 16 - 21 Pittsburgh Glass Center - furnace in the flameshop
July 23- 27 Salem Community College - intermediate vessels and form
September 28 - 30 PhillyGlassWorks - intermediate vessels and form
October (tba) - Revere Academy of Glass - vessels and form
October 19-21 Kobe International Lampwork Festa - Tokyo, Japan
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my summer vacation "what I did with twelve inches of rod"
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my firstest biggestest rod, 1 & 3/4" bros, anybody out there know what to do with this shit?
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The Pittsburgh Glass Center will delight in hosting Carmen Lozar in it's flameworking studio this summer for a week long intensive. the class runs from July 9th - 14th and will be centered around expressing oneself through the use of narratives and sculptural accounts of the human experience. more can be found about it at pittsburghglasscenter.org. i am thrilled to be serving as an assistant to her for this class and know that it will be an experience of great value not to be missed.
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i'll be going out to Momkas place in the Seattle area for a weekend workshop August 18th & 19th. it'll be a class focused on vessels with some added concentration on how i colour tubes to achieve even walls and sharp forms. details will be on her site soon... get in on it!
the piece shown is made mostly of Momkas' Guacamole with a horrid salmon coloured wall as a backdrop..
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some montage vessels i've been working on...
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two Schnuazers and a Basset...
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had to get rid of a couple tubes of 50mm x 7mm. tired of moving them around, y'know? took some good advice from one of my students in coming up with these pieces. all made to scale. more to come, intel. prop. tm'd.
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frosty brews
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"i'll have the lobster tail special and a glass of sparkling wine "
"and for her?"
"oh, she'll have the shrimp scampi and do you have good crab here at Red Lobster?"
"well, it's a Sysco grade C product.."
"o.k., bring that and some fried mozzerella. wait, she's on a diet. just a glass of water please."
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just got back from teaching at Penland. had a bunch of dedicated, hard-working students which made the class a success. thanks to all. next stop, The Revere Academy of Glass in Berkely, California. very much looking forward to that class.
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Penland School of Crafts, 21st Annual Benifit Auction, August 11 & 12, 2006 ..............................
every year they hold an auction with the work of current and past instructors from thier summer sessions to drum up funds from patrons for upkeep of the facilities and to help provide scholarships. good cause and fun to watch the woman who comes every year to buy the Stankard piece at any cost.
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a couple weeks ago i had the great fortune of taking a class with a flameworker called Andre Gutgesell. he was flown over by the Pittsburgh Glass Center from Lauscha, Germany. this was his first time teaching, and he was incredibly patient with us. he was taught primarily by Kurt Wallstab, also of Lauschan descent, and trained in colour and design at the Bauhuas in Germany. we used only hand pulled tubing from lauscha which has a coefficient similar to furnace glass, around 97 or so.
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blown coiled colours
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some neglected goblets from an installation in downtown Pittsburgh. not exactly the kind of work i'll be teaching at Corning this month, but relivant to the post-consumerism tugging at my conscience of late. there are still three or four spots open in the Corning class and it may not be able to take place without a few more people signing up. it's a great opportunity to study at Corning and i hope we don't miss out. the class runs for two weeks from June 25th until July 8th. any questions, let me know.
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Corning has made space available for my upcoming class, July 24 through Aug. 5th. taking just one week of the class is possible now, an option for those who can't spend two weeks away from thier responsibilities at home.
sign up now, don't miss it. we'll have acces to the museum, the Rakow library, and the studios. American meastro Bill Gudenrath will be teaching in the hot-shop, a real sight to see..
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the modern aesthetic of our American streets
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more of the same, just better photo quality and composition..
p.s. i'm going to New Dynasty this weekend for my first workshop of the season. i'm really looking forward to all the sorts that i'll meet this year at my various classes. come on out, lets B some G!!
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this is not an actual composed piece, i just dumped the unfinished figure into the goblet while playing house with some unfinished pieces..
hopefully things will go well with the rest of this blown figure when i get the balls to continue working on it. its at about eight hours so far...
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67/1000's of an inch triple wig-wagged, quadruple imploded, 6-way terminated, two sided tunnel vortex backed with triple dot pinwheels overlayed atop 8 graaled frit layers.
all out of clear, of course.
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bottle grouping from sept 05'
neptune sparkle, caramel, intense blue green, jupiter sparkle
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bottle grouping from sept 05'
caramel, neptune sparkle, jupiter sparkle, intense blue green
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bottle grouping from may 05'
butterscotch, unubtanium, neptune sparkle, peacock chameleon, caramel
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bottle grouping from june 05'
caramel, amazon night, peacock chameleon
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goblet from sept 05'
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goblet from sept 05'
old rust, caramel
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is the 7-11 still open? were out of chips...
the meal, days in preparation. the men dressed in the finest suits of linen and silk. the women, draped in jewels Cartier himself would be jealous of, and so couture its got Coco Chanel and Louis Vuitton going white and whispering. a Chateau Brion 73' brimming over a fine Venitian goblet. regal Wolfhounds resting after the hunt. Versailles eat you heart out, we got Wal-Marts!
buy more crap!
http://www.matteskuche.com
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Nice
looking good, hope things are going well for you in Pittsburgh. You should post a workshop schedule.
» Posted by
MicahEvans
on 10/21/2005 11:34:16 AM.
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awesome!
your work is sick man. the vessel shapes are off the hook, use of colour amazing, clean as a mother..... goddam man, most glass art sucks, but certainly not yours.....
» Posted by
Slinger
on 10/21/2005 3:01:59 PM.
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amazing
use of shape and color is fantastic, a definite inspiration. really great work, some of the best ive seen!
Ro
» Posted by
RoSGlassWorld
on 10/22/2005 7:33:46 AM.
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control
Very clean,,great original shapes..
Nice to see you on glassartists.
C-
» Posted by
CharlieSanford
on 10/23/2005 4:40:18 PM.
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NeeeyCraft
Yea that kiln is what ive been using in Austin. Its a little old, just fixed because it had some elements exposed. After the first jolt of electricity i got which damn near paralized me...we decided to fix it..oh and by the way your art is way cool, good work, you should come to ACL
peace
» Posted by
Bryan
on 12/2/2005 3:27:28 PM.
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ups to the propsitutes
Wishing good fortune for the fingertips, and giving thanks to all those bearing props. May your regulator needles point to the sky..
» Posted by
MatthewEskuche
on 12/20/2005 3:45:59 PM.
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sup
didn't get a chance to chill in chicago, but maybe sometime you'll get a chance to come out to visit the studio........
contemporaryglass.org
» Posted by
michaelangelo
on 12/23/2005 10:25:31 AM.
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dsf
those bottle sets are discusting!!
» Posted by
AdamGrafuis
on 12/26/2005 11:13:39 PM.
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indeed...
it is the truth that these bottle sets are some of the tightest work on this site. Well designed and executed.
the one statement i take notice of is "Craftsmanship and technique are values that I feel make work pertinent". In my mind, good concepts will only elevate work above and beyond when they are merged with craftsmanship and technique. Technique is important, but what does it say about the human condition? I feel it is merely a means to an end... using the right technique to get a point across.
and , yes... i do want to trade T-shirts....
» Posted by
Pakoh
on 1/10/2006 10:08:14 AM.
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))------------->>@##$!!^$#&**$^#@$%^$&%$
I've been browsing in your gallery...All your work is awesome.Very clean and tight...Hit me up via the contact artist link-we'll shoot the breeze about the old stomping grounds...
...peace
» Posted by
SeanStirlingSmiley
on 2/5/2006 10:36:47 PM.
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Thanks
Are you goin to ST.LOUIS if you are I sure we will get trashed s. Your work is lookin great if you want to send some stuff out hit me up.
» Posted by
NathanPurcell
on 3/10/2006 8:59:51 AM.
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dsfsad
that badminten pic is killin it!!
» Posted by
AdamGrafuis
on 5/2/2006 5:34:01 AM.
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rose, your'e hired
yeah, i'm pretty bummed too. Pittsburgh is only going to be able to run one of it's 6 flamework classes this summer for this same reason. UrbanGlass keeps having to cancel all thier flame classes too. C'mon people is right, if all the schools keep having to cancel flamework they'll soon be cutting it from thier curriculum and we'll be left with one and two day workshops in some random warehouse space. the kind of peripheral stimuli at a place like Corning or Penland or Pittsburgh, etc. can't be measured. spend a week or two at one of these world renowned schools and you'll be surrounded by people and ideas from all over the world that will stretch the boundries of learning and experience. i'll stop preaching now, but i think we as flameworkers should show ourselves to the major institutions as a worthwhile facet in the glass arts for them to pursue.
» Posted by
MatthewEskuche
on 5/13/2006 10:47:42 AM.
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what about my class in Istanbul?
i'm teaching a three day class at Tecnolux in Brooklyn, NY the same weekend as SOFA, June 1st through the 4th. also, i'm giving a two or three day workshop in a private studio in the days following the Corning class. i'll look into the possibility of adding a student to that workshop. email me so i can keep you up to date on it.
don't poo-poo the hot shop thing too badly. the opporotunities to work out of the furnace might be few and far between for you, but the techniques are valuable and transfer directly to the flameshop.
» Posted by
MatthewEskuche
on 5/13/2006 4:58:51 PM.
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What's Up Matt?
Sorry to hear about the cancellations. I highly recommend taking classes to anyone interested! I benifitted (sp.?) sooooo much from the class I took at Eugene glass school this April. I say if you want to do something,,make it happen. I am working on my blown forms. Also, I posted a web page on this site..check it out..TIZ
» Posted by
TisburyPringle-Ennis
on 5/16/2006 11:42:26 AM.
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kind words
the Penland class will be great fun, no doubt. glad to see you've got the furnace experience Randy, that's a head start since i'll be covering working with jacks and diamond shears at the torch.
i'll make a goblet if you're interested and certainly do some bit-work as you see on the stems of the goblets here. the studio is open 24 hours a day so we'll do some experimenting as well. bring beer.
good to see you on here tiz, i look forward to seeing the vessels. see you at GAS?
» Posted by
MatthewEskuche
on 5/16/2006 1:07:50 PM.
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gas
Hey Matt, don't think we'll amke G.A.S. this summer. Jamey's too busy at the Glass Eye..unfortunately. maybe next year in Pittsburgh..have fun! I still want some grabbers from u but have had little time to practice blown stuff. I'll be in touch..best,TIZ
» Posted by
TisburyPringle-Ennis
on 5/17/2006 8:55:35 AM.
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Nice Gallery
Your the man, thanks for the pics
» Posted by
RobertKochGlass
on 5/21/2006 9:11:28 PM.
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love your work man
very inspirational. looks like you have alot of fun thats very important. a couple of your pics look kinda like Jonny Noxville blowin. lol, i like the pic where dude is using that kangaroo punty breaker, sweet tool man. Props and keep it up man.
» Posted by
TheGoat
on 6/23/2006 6:27:52 AM.
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mullet-tude
good times were def had in st. louis. Like the mullet, but like the claw grabbers better...man, I gotta get a set of thoze jawnies
» Posted by
JoshuaOpdenaker
on 6/24/2006 3:29:42 PM.
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Mullet and a MIchael Jackson glove
your crazy man. wish i could make it to your class at penland. just noticed it on your web site.
» Posted by
TheGoat
on 7/8/2006 8:58:10 PM.
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sup
very nice work, inspiring the goblets are dope too
» Posted by
JMcghee
on 7/14/2006 4:46:33 PM.
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love your work. met you while hanging with the philly dicks at pittsburgh gas. good times.
» Posted by
MarkLeputa
on 6/11/2007 8:31:41 PM.
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alva ?
just saw the coment on my page im sure that was a shmit stick it might have been an alva im not sure it has 170 size indipent truks and some slimeball wheels.
skate or die!
side note your glass is real tight. how much do you sell your hot fingers for?
» Posted by
JaredBetty
on 7/30/2007 12:40:33 AM.
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hot fingers
what size are they and how many sizes do you have.
» Posted by
JaredBetty
on 8/12/2007 4:37:35 PM.
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love it
You amaze and inspire!
~T
» Posted by
Tessa
on 10/11/2007 9:35:47 PM.
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Berkeley class at Revere Glass
It was nice to see you again at the class in Berkeley. Pushing the envelope as usual. Hope you had a great time in Japan and I'll be sending you those claw grabbers for a tune-up here shortly.
Pax
--David Braut
» Posted by
GlassByBraut
on 11/18/2007 4:10:36 PM.
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NICE WORK BRO
KEEP ROCKIN
CHICO
» Posted by
ForwardMotionART
on 1/18/2008 3:29:30 AM.
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beautiful
you are so nice.amazing!!!
» Posted by
Daisuke
on 1/22/2008 12:41:37 AM.
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Hi matte !
I'm so happy to see you again!
You're very attractive!
» Posted by
Aquarius
on 7/2/2008 8:48:46 PM.
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yo...
Got them cuffs made up for you, now i need your addy.
Peas
Ben
» Posted by
BEGlass
on 8/11/2008 7:55:00 AM.
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amazing
your work blows my mind. Such control! I'd love to take a class some time soon. You should give me a heads up if you're going to teach any workshops this year.
-Chandler
» Posted by
Chandler
on 12/25/2008 8:51:09 PM.
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