Presented by Bullseye Projects
Hear Emerge/Evolve 2016: Rising Talents in Kiln-glass artist Carmen Vetter speak about her exploration of the glass medium. Vetter will discuss how her interest in patterning and texture, from her grandmother's quilts to land forms viewed from google earth, has informed her work.
Bellevue Arts Museum
Members: Free | Non-members: $5
About the Artist
Carmen Vetter forges elaborate glass arrangements that reflect her interest in both optical perception and artistic intuition. Her elegant abstractions can at times evoke aerial, macroscopic views of the earth; of arctic forests, or where nature meets civilization – but just as often, extreme close-up views of icy water or cellular structures. Throughout all of Vetter’s art is a propensity to evoke through a combination of visual texture and abstraction, and the result is testament to both the versatility of glass as well as Vetter's uncommon ability to draw out its atmospheric beauty. “The relationship between these surfaces and the things that underlie them – their unique histories, the unseen events that preceded them and created them, the mystery of what they are becoming –is what truly interests me,” Vetter writes. “I seek the intrinsic.”
Carmen Vetter has been working with kiln-formed glass since 1999. In addition to serving as a guest lecturer at the esteemed Pilchuck Glass School in Seattle, she has exhibited in museums across the country and has been reviewed by prominent publications including Urban Glass Quarterly, The Corning New Glass Review and Art and Antiques.
