sculpture

Object NameSculptural Vessel

Artist Kari Russell-Pool (American, b. 1967)

Made FromGlass

Date1992

Place MadeUnited States, NC, Bakersville

Techniqueframeworked

SizeOverall H: 19.5 cm, W: 23.1 cm, D: 23.7 cm

Accession Number93.4.4

Credit LineGift of Douglas and Michael Heller

Curatorial Area(s)

Postwar and Contemporary

Exhibitions

Glass America

The Studio at 20

Not On View

Physical DescriptionColorless casing transparent varying shades and mixtures of yellow and green, light blue, dark brown glasses; cane is colores with glass powders and pulled by the artist, sections are lampworked then assembled over a gas/oxygen torch. Asymmetrical openwork bowl formed of narrow plant stems arcing upward in overlapped scallop pattern, stems are punctuated by small regularly-spaced crimped pointed leaves interspersed with five large sunflower heads in full bloom facing out from bowl exterior, each blossom comprised of double-row of pointed yellow petals and large mottled yellow/green center, also scattered through foliage walls are five smaller buds with small brown conical centers and five to six small petals curving back away from center; stems emerge from narrow circular foot (not completely closed) composed of alternating short sections of green and blue, a y-shaped stem branch with leaves transverses the ring forming part of base; unsigned.
Provenance

Source Micheal Heller - 1993

Source Douglas Heller - 1993