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Seekers® Art Glass Gallery
presents the work of Jesus Garcia, who combines ancient glassblowing techniques
with a contemporary sense of color and design.
Garcia creates a varied array
of bowls, platters, vases, perfume vials, goblets and other pieces.
For his Fiesta series,
he applies confetti-like chips of bright, multi-colored glass to clear crystal,
then blows out the form.
His Perfume Vials
feature a bubble of translucent color suspended in clear crystal. After they
cool, he cuts "windows" front and back and etches the sides to create
a striking black geometric design.
His favors vivid jewel tone
colors, which are the result of special formulations of metallic oxides — such
as cobalt, gold, copper and others — which are mixed into the molten glass.
Garcia creates each piece at
the end of a metal blowpipe, manipulating and blowing the glass at temperatures
in excess of 2000 degrees F. The glassblowing methods he uses are thousands of
years old, with only a few, minor innovations such as cutting and polishing that
reflect 20th century technology.
A third generation glassblower,
Garcia was born in Mexico and has lived and worked in California since 1979.
He studied glassblowing at the
University of Southern California, and worked for Correia Art Glass and Fineline
Glass (Kerry Feldman and Denise Bloch) prior to establishing his own
glassblowing studio, Antonio-Garcia Studio, in Southern California.
His work has been shown at
galleries and juried exhibitions throughout the United States.
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