SURVEY OF GLASS SCULPTURE
“Meaning” in my art is a verb; it expresses the desire, the longing for meaning, by providing the occasion for it. You are asked to share in both its genuine emotion and the revulsion of it.
- Nicolas Africano
Selected Work 2022-2023
“Teresa”
“Bell”
2023
Cast glass, gold leaf, steel, brass
20” x 17” x 13.5”
2023
Cast glass, gold leaf, steel, brass
20” x 17” x 13.5”
2023
Cast glass, gold leaf, steel, brass
20” x 17” x 13.5”
2023
Cast glass, gold leaf, steel, brass
20” x 17” x 13.5”
2023
Cast glass, gold leaf, steel, brass
20” x 17” x 13.5”
2023
Cast glass, gold leaf, steel, brass
20” x 17” x 13.5”
2023
Cast glass, gold leaf, steel, brass
20” x 17” x 13.5”
2023
Cast glass, gold leaf, steel, brass
20” x 17” x 13.5”
“Wedding”
Naked with gold traces of ancient memories flickering like sparks from dying embers.
2022
Cast glass, steel, gold leaf
14 “ x 14” x 26”
2022
Cast glass, steel, gold leaf
14” x 14” x 26”
2022
Cast glass, steel, gold leaf
14” x 14” x 26”
2022
Cast glass, steel, gold leaf
14” x 14” x 26”
2022
Cast glass, steel, gold leaf
14” x 14” x 26”
2022
Cast glass, steel, gold leaf
14” x 14” x 26”
2022
Cast glass, steel, gold leaf
14” x 14” x 26”
2022
Cast glass, steel, gold leaf
14” x 14” x 26”
2022
Cast glass, steel, gold leaf
14” x 14” x 26”
2022
Cast glass, steel, gold leaf
14” x 14” x 26”
2022
Cast glass, steel, gold leaf
14” x 14” x 26”
2022
Cast glass, steel, gold leaf
14” x 14” x 26”
“Boy”
2011-2023
Cast glass
29” x 10.5” x 10”
2011-2023
Cast glass
29” x 10.5” x 10”
2011-2023
Cast glass
29” x 10.5” x 10”
2011-2023
Cast glass
29” x 10.5” x 10”
2011-2023
Cast glass
29” x 10.5” x 10”
2011-2023
Cast glass
29” x 10.5” x 10”
“Boy”
2022
Cast glass, blown glass, electroplated & patinated copper hat
Figure w/rock: 14” x 16” x 10.5”
Ball: 4.5” diameter
2022
Cast glass, blown glass, electroplated & patinated copper hat
Figure w/rock: 14” x 16” x 10.5”
Ball: 4.5” diameter
2022
Cast glass, blown glass, electroplated & patinated copper hat
Figure w/rock: 14” x 16” x 10.5”
Ball: 4.5” diameter
2022
Cast glass, blown glass, electroplated & patinated copper hat
Figure w/rock: 14” x 16” x 10.5”
Ball: 4.5” diameter
2022
Cast glass, blown glass, electroplated & patinated copper hat
Figure w/rock: 14” x 16” x 10.5”
Ball: 4.5” diameter
2022
Cast glass, blown glass, electroplated & patinated copper hat
Figure w/rock: 14” x 16” x 10.5”
Ball: 4.5” diameter
“Boy”
2022
Cast glass, hand blown glass ball, electroplated & patinated copper hat
27 x 10.5 x 9”
2022
Cast glass, hand blown glass ball, electroplated & patinated copper hat
27 x 10.5 x 9”
2022
Cast glass, hand blown glass ball, electroplated & patinated copper hat
27 x 10.5 x 9”
2022
Cast glass, hand blown glass ball, electroplated & patinated copper hat
27 x 10.5 x 9”
2022
Cast glass, hand blown glass ball, electroplated & patinated copper hat
27 x 10.5 x 9”
2022
Cast glass, hand blown glass ball, electroplated & patinated copper hat
27 x 10.5 x 9”
2022
Cast glass, hand blown glass ball, electroplated & patinated copper hat
27 x 10.5 x 9”
“Boy”
2022
Oil on canvas
19” x 16” (Framed)
2022
Oil on canvas
20” x 17” (framed)
2022
Oil on canvas
18 3/4” x 15 3/4” (framed)
2022
Oil on canvas
25 1/4” x 22 1/4” (Framed)
2022
Oil and graphite on linen
12” x 9” (Image size)
“For Carmen”
This work was inspired byKathleen O’Gorman’s documentary film “Boundaries”, which was composed of interviews with refugees detained at our southern border. Art doesn’t heal such grievances; but it can reveal them. If there is any redemption for our inhumanity toward one another, it is within the irrepressible humanity that art attempts to provide.
2022-2023
Cast glass, glass enamel
9” x 14 1/4” x 9”
2022-2023
Cast glass, glass enamel
9” x 14 1/4” x 9”
2022-2023
Cast glass, glass enamel
9” x 14 1/4” x 9”
2022-2023
Cast glass, glass enamel
9” x 14 1/4” x 9”
2022
Cast glass
17 x 11 x 8”
2022
Cast glass
17 x 11 x 8”
2022
Cast glass
17 x 11 x 8”
2022
Cast glass
17 x 11 x 8”
2022
Cast glass
17 x 11 x 8”
2022
Cast glass
17 x 11 x 8”
2022
Cast glass
17 x 11 x 8”
2022
Cast glass
17 x 11 x 8”
2022
Cast glass
17 x 14 x 8”
2022
Cast glass
17 x 14 x 8”
2022
Cast glass
17 x 14 x 8”
2022
Cast glass
17 x 14 x 8”
2022
Cast glass
17 x 11 x 8” (red)
17 x 14 x 8” (amber)
2022
Cast glass
17 x 11 x 8” (red)
17 x 14 x 8” (amber)
2022
Cast glass
17 x 11 x 8” (red)
17 x 14 x 8” (amber)
2022
Cast glass
17 x 11 x 8” (red)
17 x 14 x 8” (amber)
2022
Cast glass
17 x 11 x 8” (red)
17 x 14 x 8” (amber)
Selected Sculpture 2023
2023
Cast glass, gold leaf
17.5” x 6” x 5”
2023
Cast glass, gold leaf
17.5” x 6” x 5”
2023
Cast glass, gold leaf
17.5” x 6” x 5”
2023
Cast glass, gold leaf
17.5” x 6” x 5”
2023
Cast glass, gold leaf
17.5” x 6” x 5”
Selected Sculpture 2021
Selected Sculpture 2018-2020
The Garbo Figures
The Model, posing as Greta Garbo, the actress, the pretender, posing as Pierrot, the character, as photographed by Cecil Beaton, as rendered in glass, a bloodless paradox of volume and light…does not offer grace or harmony or truth…but rather human frailty, the impermanence and bewildering uncertainty of being in the world, the cruel comedy of being lost, placeless, purposeless, faithless, disillusioned…and charmingly indifferent, self possessed, unapologetic.
2018
Cast glass granite cubes
18 x 25 x 12”
2018
Cast glass, granite cubes
18 x 25 x 12”
2020
Cast glass
26 1/2 x 10 3/4 x 10”
2020
Cast glass
26 1/2 x 10 3/4 x 10”
Detail
2020
Cast glass
26 1/2 x 10 3/4 x 10”
Detail
2020
Cast glass
26 1/2 x 10 3/4 x 10”
2019
Cast glass
25 x 12 x 12”
2019
Cast glass
25 x 12 x 12”
2019
Cast glass
25 x 12 x 12”
2019
Detail
Cast glass
25 x 12 x 12”
2018
Cast glass, granite, lead
28 x 10 x 12”
2018
Cast glass, granite, lead
28 x 10 x 12”
2018
Detail
Cast glass, granite, lead
28 x 10 x 12”
2018
Detail
Cast glass, granite, lead
28 x 10 x 12”
2019
Cast glass
25 x 10 1/4 x 9 1/2”
2019
Cast glass
25 x 10 1/4 x 9 1/2”
2019
Cast glass
25 x 10 1/4 x 9 1/2”
2019
Detail
Cast glass
25 x 10 1/4 x 9 1/2”
2018
Cast glass
25 x 12 x 9.5”
2018
Cast glass
25 x 12 x 9.5”
2018
Cast glass
25 x 12 x 9.5”
2018
Cast glass
25 x 12 x 9.5”
2018
Cast glass
25 x 13 x 11”
2018
Cast glass
25 x 13 x 11”
2018
Cast glass
20 x 8 x 11”
2018
Cast glass
20 x 8 x 11”
Detail
2018
Cast glass
20 x 8 x 11”
2018
Cast glass
25 x 10 1/4 x 9”
2018
Cast glass
25 x 10 1/4 x 9”
2018
Cast glass
25 x 10 1/4 x 9”
2018
Cast glass
25 x 10 x 9.5”
2018
Cast glass
25 x 10 x 9.5”
Detail
2018
Cast glass
25 x 10 x 9.5”
2017
Cast glass
23.5 x 16 x 14”
2017
Cast glass
23.5 x 16 x 14”
2017
Cast glass
23.5 x 16 x 14”
2017
Cast glass
23.5 x 16 x 14”
2019
Cast glass, granite cube
31” (long) x 16” (wide) x 22” (high)
2019
Cast glass, granite cube
31” (long) x 16” (wide) x 22” (high)
2019
Cast glass, granite cube
31” (long) x 16” (wide) x 22” (high)
2019
Cast glass, granite cube
31” (long) x 16” (wide) x 22” (high)
2019
Cast glass, granite cube
31” (long) x 16” (wide) x 22” (high)
2017
Cast glass
16 x 13.5 x 10.5”
2017
Cast glass
16 x 13.5 x 10.5”
2017
Cast glass
16 x 13.5 x 10.5”
2017
Cast glass
16 x 13.5 x 10.5”
2017
Cast glass
16 x 13.5 x 10.5”
2017
Cast glass, hand patinaed steel
Glass is Uroboros White Opalescent glass
26 x 19.5 x 11.5”
2017
Cast glass, hand patinaed steel
Glass is Uroboros White Opalescent glass
26 x 19.5 x 11.5”
2017
Cast glass, hand patinaed steel
Glass is Uroboros White Opalescent glass
26 x 19.5 x 11.5”
Selected Sculpture 2014-2016
2014
Cast glass
20 x 7 x 7"
Detail
Cast glass
2014
20 x 7 x 7"
Cast glass
2015
28 x 10.5 7.5"
Cast glass
2014
29.5 x 7 x 7"
Cast glass
2014
29.5 x 7 x 7"
Cast glass
2015
24 x 8 x 8"
Cast glass
2015
28 x 9 x 8"
2014
Cast glass
28 x 6 x 6"
2014
Cast glass
22 x 5 x 5"
2014
Cast glass
21 x 5 x 5"
2014
Cast glass
21 x 5 x5"
2014
Cast glass
20.25 x 5.5 x 5"
2015
Cast glass
16 x 7 x 8"
2015
Cast glass
16 x 7 x 8"
2015
Cast glass
16 x 8 x 8"
2015
Cast glass
16 x 8 x 8"
2015
Cast glass
12 x 5 x 5.5"
2015
Cast glass
12 x 5 x 5.5"
2016
Cast glass
12 x 10 x 11"
2015
Cast glass
12 x 8 x 9"
2015
Cast glass
9.5 x 7 x 7"
2015
Cast glass
9.5 x 7 x 7"
2015
Cast glass
9.5 x 7 x 7"
2015
Cast glass
12 x 7.5 x 7”
Selected Sculpture 2007-12
2012
Cast glass
20.5 x 5 x 5"
2012
Cast glass
20.5 x 5 x 5"
2009
Cast glass
9 x 24 x 14"
2009
Cast glass
9 x 24 x 14"
2008
Cast glass
26 x 9.5 x 9.5"
2008
Cast glass
26 x 9.5 x 9.5"
2012
Cast glass
24 x 11 x 7.5"
2012
Cast glass
29 x 9 x 8"
2009
Cast glass, handmade silk dress
39 x 18 x 13"
2009
Cast glass, handmade silk dress
39 x 18 x 13"
2009
Cast glass, handmade silk dress
39 x 18 x 13"
2011
Cast glass, handmade silk dress
26.5 x 13.5 x 9"
2011
Cast glass
20 x 9.75 x 8"
2009
Cast glass
27.5 x 17 x 11"
2007
Cast glass
28 x 20 x 9"
2010
Cast glass
15.5 x 24 x 14"
2010
Cast glass
15.5 x 24 x 14"
2010
Cast glass
15.5 x 24 x 14"
2009
Cast glass
17.25 x 14. 5 x 11.25"
Selected Sculpture 2000-2007
2007
Cast glass
18.5 x 7.5 x 6"
2006
Cast glass
27 x 8 x 6"
2006
Cast glass
18 x 11 x 10"
2003
Cast glass
20 x 18 x 11"
2003
Cast glass
16 x 10 x 8"
2003
Cast glass
27 x 11 x 9"
2002
Cast glass
16x 10 x 8.5"
2002
Cast glass
43 x 11.5 x 8"
2002
Cast glass
43 x 11.5 x 8"
2002
Cast glass
43 x 11.5 x 8"
2003
Cast glass
16 x 10 x 8"
2004
Cast glass
28 x 5 x 4"
Reveries
2017
Cast glass
23 x 18 x 11” (each bust)
23 x 18 x 23” (together)
2017
Cast glass
23 x 18 x 11” (each bust)
23 x 18 x 23” (together)
2017
Cast glass
23 x 18 x 11” (each bust)
23 x 18 x 23” (together)
2017
Detail
Cast glass
23 x 18 x 11” (each bust)
23 x 18 x 23” (together)
2017
Detail
Cast glass
23 x 18 x 11” (each bust)
23 x 18 x 23” (together)
2012
Cast glass
20.5 x 12.75 x 8.25"
2007
Cast glass
15.5 x 10 x 12"
2007
Cast glass
14 x 9 x 11"
2013
Cast glass
17.5 x 9 x 13"
2013
Cast glass
17.5 x 9 x 13"
2007
Cast glass
15 x 9 x 11"
2007
Cast glass
15 x 9 x 11"
2007
Cast glass
15.5 x 10 x 12"
2012
Cast glass
18.5 x 15.5 x 13.5”
2013
Cast glass (wall mounted)
18.5 x 14 x 8.5"
2009
Cast glass
25 x 16 x 12”
2009
Cast glass
25 x 16 x 12”