Kansas Artist Craftsmen Association / Chad Fonfara
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Material Mastery Exhibition
Chad Fonfara
Kearney, NE
Wind-borne
Glass, bronze
I didn't want to replicate a specific plant or insect form, but create something that looked both familiar and otherworldly—multivalent forms that don't have a singular identity. The viewer must decide: "What is it? Where does it come from? Was something growing in it? What is its story?" Glass allows me to play with conflicting fragility and heaviness, and its relationship to light with glass's varying opaqueness, translucency, transparency. I also enjoy negating the material: trying to make it look like it is not obviously glass, but an entity unto itself.
Kansas Artist Craftsmen Association / Chad Fonfara
DETAIL
Material Mastery Exhibition
Chad Fonfara
Kearney, NE
Wind-borne
Glass, bronze
I didn't want to replicate a specific plant or insect form, but create something that looked both familiar and otherworldly—multivalent forms that don't have a singular identity. The viewer must decide: "What is it? Where does it come from? Was something growing in it? What is its story?" Glass allows me to play with conflicting fragility and heaviness, and its relationship to light with glass's varying opaqueness, translucency, transparency. I also enjoy negating the material: trying to make it look like it is not obviously glass, but an entity unto itself.