Segmentation

Object NameSculpture

Designer Michael Scheiner (American, b. 1956)

Studio Rhode Island School of Design

Made FromNon-lead glass, Fiberglass, Epoxy resin

Date1991

TechniqueMold-blown, acid-etched, painted

SizeOverall H: 61 cm, W: 80 cm (estimates); Base Diam: 35 cm (estimate)

Accession Number92.4.109

Curatorial Area(s)

Postwar and Contemporary

Exhibitions

Title Unknown (Wheeler Gallery)

Glass America

Curiosities of Glassmaking

Title Unknown (William Traver Gallery)

Interpretive Notes

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"I like to try to do something new every time I make sculpture. Some of my pieces, when finished, look fairly simple, but the process is very complex. I am very interested in process; it’s the way I get my ideas." --Michael Scheiner. Michael Scheiner studied at the Rhode Island School of Design (RISD) in Providence and at Ohio State University in Columbus. He has taught part-time at RISD for nearly 20 years. Scheiner is an accomplished glassblower who has chosen to focus on large-scale sculpture. He is interested in the contradictory fluid and rigid states of glass, and his work often incorporates other materials, such as wet clay, epoxy resin, and fiberglass. Bearing and Segmentation are abstract, organic sculptures inspired by segmented forms found in nature. These tactile, soft yet muscled forms refer to such different things as parts of the human body (fingers, intestine) and invertebrates (worms).

Place Made

United States, RI, Providence

Physical DescriptionLight smokey-gray non-lead glass, brown-black paint, fiberglass; glass blown in plaster molds, assembled with fiberglass, expoxy resin, UV adhesive, acid-etched, painted. Large hollow sculpture in shape of conical horn comprised of five blown sections (joined with wrapped bands) tapering towards end that curves back on itself to pierce wall near broad circular solid base on which sculpture rests (also supported and stabilized by a point on the narrow end of cone), as tip bisects opposite sides and passes through interior of base it is enclosed in two-part length of bubble; smallest four sections covered with brushed dark paint that trails into large section; overall dimpling and mold marks; unsigned.
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