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Meat Chandelier

Object NameChandelier

Artist Deborah Czeresko (American, b. 1961)

Made FromGlass, Metal

Date2018

TechniqueBlown

SizeOverall H: 244 cm, W: 152 cm, D: 152 cm

Accession Number2019.4.165

Curatorial Area(s)

Postwar and Contemporary

Exhibitions

CA+D Reopening 2020

New Glass Now

New Glass Now (TRAVEL)

Interpretive Notes

Web Text

Meat Chandelier transforms the ornate, floral Venetian chandelier into a butcher’s rack. Czeresko's self-proclaimed “sausage fest” pokes fun at macho glassblowers and their obsession with historic Venetian glassblowing techniques. Using her own mastery of those skills and her sense of humor, Czeresko asserts her queer female presence in glass.

Place Made

United States, NY, Brooklyn

Physical DescriptionChandelier, "Meat Chandelier". Red, white, and colorless blown glass; metal armature. Large blown glass chandelier whose parts are made to resemble various cuts of meat such as pork chops, kielbasa, slabs of salami, sausage links, and veal cutlets.
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