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Kait Rhoads

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In viewing the work of Kait Rhoads over the past ten years, one travels the divergent paths taken by her as she utilizes traditional Italian glass patterning techniques to create sculptures and vessels that embody her reverence for nature. She began her career in painting, but soon came to see the transparency and vibrant colors of glass as a means to create more compelling work. Her commitment to the medium of glass was reinforced by a Fulbright Fellowship in Murano, Italy where she had the opportunity to study and learn a variety of ancient glass techniques. She employs zanfirico and murrine in innovative ways, creating highly refined, painterly sculptures that bring new life and direction to ancient traditions in glass.

Her initial fused murrine glass “Peacock vessels” have grown into abstract , organic sculptures of woven murrine in which combinations of opaque and transparent color alternately highlight the architecture of the form as a whole and the perforated topography of the surface.