Hank Murta Adams (American, b. 1956) is well-known for his eccentric, large-scale portraits made of massive, rough cast glass and copper. The portraits are inspired by Adams's observations and memories. They do not represent individual people; instead, they depict moods or characteristics of different personality types.
Physical DescriptionTranslucent colorless non-lead glass with natural pale blue-green cast, copper; molded, sandblasted. Large, translucent, semi-hollow head and shoulder of a male figure, head topped with thick horizontal rectangle with raised square decoration across long front and short sides, extending from top of rectangle at corners are perpendicular copper wire loops with tubular wraps and extending from them are flat metal bands curving down toward top corners of the glass, wired to the ends and hanging free is a metal rectangular, extending from mid-edge of each glass corner is a curled length of wire; attached to each is a long wire running down past the head and attaching to the tips of 4 conical glass protrusions scattered over front and back shoulder area, also extending from top of rectangle at center is a flat cut-out oval of copper raised on 2 wires; head faces forward displaying vertical rectangular nose, 2 narrow ovoid eyes formed from metal bands extending from sunken eye sockets, small metal band bean-shaped mouth is almost completely embedded in the glass, extensive bleeding of blue patination between nose and mouth; front right of neck has raised glass cone section as described above, wires extending from the rectangle attach to a wire circle protruding from tip of each cone, bases of cones encircled by a wire circle attached to small loop; shoulders slope in sharply to ovoid base; overall irregular mottled texture, traces of white mold material. Provenance
