Pink Girl with Dog Nancy Hoffman Gallery (New York) showed Pink Girl With Dog by Nicholas Africano at Expo Chicago. Africano, from Kankakee, IL and now living in Normal, uses his wife Rebecca as the model for all of his stunning glass work.
His cast glass pieces make use of the "lost wax" method. I was going to describe the technique but to do it justice is to take too much space. Essentially a wax model is made, cast and then molten glass is poured into the cast. But it is more involved than that! Go HERE for more info.
Africano is also a painter. His work from the 70s was inspired by literature and also included wax reliefs of events from his life.
His cast glass pieces make use of the "lost wax" method. I was going to describe the technique but to do it justice is to take too much space. Essentially a wax model is made, cast and then molten glass is poured into the cast. But it is more involved than that! Go HERE for more info.
Africano is also a painter. His work from the 70s was inspired by literature and also included wax reliefs of events from his life.
RSS Feed