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Elizabeth Perkins
The glass objects and environments that I create serve as activators and preservations that speak about identity, history, memory, and tradition. I am interested in how values and traditions evolve and linger. My works act as a resuscitator between old and new, while often challenging and marrying different processes of manipulating glass. My characterizations, plots, and settings, are inspired by wandering and witnessing Rural America. The careful and directed orchestration of objects both found and made imply time, place, and persona within my constructed environments. The delineation between fact and fiction within my works becomes blurred. The distortion and illumination of “southern experience” and history is wrenched from its normal continuity and is presented a new.
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Elizabeth Perkins
Breath Taker Memoir, Forgetting and Remembering, 2010
Glass, low fired decal, fused and coldworked
various sizes
Elizabeth Perkins
Color Lace Mural, detail 2010
pate de verre cast glass and fabric
various sizes
Elizabeth Perkins
Color Lace Mural, 2010
pate de verre cast glass and fabric
various sizes
Elizabeth Perkins
Rosemary, 2010
pate de verre cast glass
5” x 5” x 1/8”
Elizabeth Perkins
Francis, 2010
pate de verre cast glass
4” x 4” x 1/8”
Elizabeth Perkins
Betty, detail 2010
pate de verre cast glass
2.5” x2. 5” x 1/8”
Elizabeth Perkins
Rae, 2010
hot pate de verre cast glass pick up on blown glass
2.5” x2. 5” x 1/8”