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The False Door

The False Door

The false door...The spirit freedom...

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Starburst Chandelier and Sconce

Starburst Chandelier and Sconce. The chandelier alone has 225 points assembled to a large welded steel frame. Around five feet tall, each point i...

Semper Fidelis

Semper Fidelis

This was a wonderfully fun piece to make. It was requested by a serviceman as a gift to his father recently when I was in Oklahoma at a show. It s...

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Recent Work from Late Summer and Fall 2006

« Randy Barba's Gallery

(Functional Art Glass)

Recent Work from Late Summer and Fall 2006

For the most part, my current work is an exploration through color. One of the things that intrigues me most about glass is color and the millions of ways you can use it. For the most part, the glass is being used as a canvas in which I almost paint with color bar alone.

I have been working with the optic mold, using it to mesh colors together in patterns. Depending on how I prepare my color and how I twist or adjust the color in between entrances to the mold determines my result. I can make the pattern complex or simple, fluent or varying, separated or intertwined, all while creating the most complex color combinations I can.

As for the base form, I have selected a shouldered vase. After creating the base shape, I then alter it depending on how it accents the color scheme that has arisen throughout the process. I have made open and closed, funky and symmetrical. Either way, they all explore the possibilities of abstract form there are within one shape.

There are obviously a few exceptions in this gallery, some of these pieces do not match the description above. There have to be experiments here and there, or all of this can be rather boring…

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Blue Swirl Vase 616 x 768 pixels (69 KB) 0 Comments 12" height, 9" across lip at widest point		Dark Green Bowl 1024 x 621 pixels (69 KB) 0 Comments 13" diameter lip, 8" height		Inside of Dark Green Bowl 1024 x 680 pixels (82 KB) 0 Comments 13" diameter
Dark Green Vase 627 x 768 pixels (59 KB) 0 Comments 13" height, 9.5" diameter mouth/lip		Fire Vase 1024 x 680 pixels (71 KB) 0 Comments 10" height, 8" x 9" mouth		Green and Blue Biggon 576 x 768 pixels (59 KB) 0 Comments 10" height, 6" diameter mouth/lip
Spring Amphora 526 x 768 pixels (50 KB) 0 Comments 12" height, 8" across shoulder, 5.5" diameter opening/lip		Green w/ Blue Stripe Leaf Vase 1024 x 732 pixels (81 KB) 0 Comments 9.5" height, 9" across lip at widest point		Spring Green Leaf Vase (side 1) 597 x 768 pixels (54 KB) 0 Comments 12.5" height at tallest point, 9" across lip at widest point
Spring Green Leaf Vase (side 2) 593 x 768 pixels (52 KB) 0 Comments 12.5" height at tallest point, 9" across lip at widest point		Painted Topaz, Red, and Yellow Vase 509 x 768 pixels (49 KB) 0 Comments 13" height, 7.5" diameter opening/lip		Funkafire 674 x 768 pixels (54 KB) 0 Comments 10.5" height, 8" x 4" mouth/opening
Dark Ruby Vase w/ Optic body Wrap 644 x 768 pixels (52 KB) 0 Comments 11" height, 8" diameter shoulder, 6" diameter lip/mouth		White w/Dark Ruby Overlay Bowl 1024 x 598 pixels (56 KB) 0 Comments 8.5" height, 11" diameter shoulder, 7.5" diameter mouth/opening		Salmon Topaz Fritted Vase 597 x 768 pixels (62 KB) 0 Comments 13.5" height, 9" diameter opening/lip (made early 2006)
Cream Tobacco Vase 731 x 768 pixels (70 KB) 0 Comments 10.5" height, 10" opening (made early 2006)		Inside Red/Yellow Vase 532 x 768 pixels (57 KB) 0 Comments 11"height, 8" diameter lip/mouth (made early 2006)		Sienna Tulip Vase 592 x 768 pixels (54 KB) 0 Comments 12.5" height, 5" diameter mouth/opening
Black Oval Vase 673 x 768 pixels (50 KB) 0 Comments 8" height, 6" x 5" oval mouth/lip		Cloud Bowl 1024 x 616 pixels (75 KB) 0 Comments 6.5" height, 12" across at widest point (made early 2006)		White w/ Aubergine Ovaerlay Bowl 1024 x 593 pixels (56 KB) 0 Comments 7.5" height, 14" diameter lip
Aqua Bowl 1024 x 719 pixels (88 KB) 0 Comments 8.5" height, 12" diameter lip

Artist: RandyBarba

Randy Barba

Glass is hazardous and humbling. During the creation of the medium alone, glass must be respected; the dusty elements used to create glass are deadly. When it is molten and being worked, glass demands fire and breath. When it’s cold, it must be considered; glass loses most of its glamour and beauty after it cracks and/or crashes to the floor. When I give glass that respect and consideration, as well as provide the fire and breath it demands, I can create.

Glass is demanding. Consideration of temperature, air pressure, centrifugal force, and gravity is integral to the process of creating blown glass. I can only work with or around these properties as best I can. Although you cannot achieve total control over the medium, it is possible to come close. Perfection and persistence in form requires the ability to control and shape the glass. Therein lies my drive. It is my desire, my goal, to further improve my command over molten glass and that which affects it, without losing sight of the fact that I can never have it all.

Glass is elemental. The glass’ movements are based on physical properties, but chemistry plays a huge part in the process as well. This is very apparent when it comes to working with color. Because colors are created by adding metals to the glass, using color requires knowledge of what the colors are made of and what they will do if mixed together. I truly enjoy mixing colors in ways that people would not normally attempt. My work shows what I have learned about using color and what I am trying to figure out, both displayed through the forms that intrigue me most.

Glass is life...

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