Friday, September 12, 2008

Susan Edgerley

Susan Edgerley explores glass and its relationship with other materials to create her own personal and textural dialogue in her work. She works with several different themes in her pieces which include identity, community, and the existence of the human condition. The glass in her work represents the complexity and diversity of the human existence through the use of glass and it properties. She uses the beauty of glass as a metaphor to describe humanity in her work. The transparent in appearance yet still being solid and impregnable, glass remains a seductive and elusive medium full of contradictions: fragile, solid, hard, strong, transparent, translucent, opaque, fluid, soft, malleable, colorful, clear, tactile, hot, warm, cold, sharp, smooth, rough, textured, mirrored, reflective, refractive, brittle, breakable, are all words describing what the glass represents.
Susan Edgerley has exhibited across North America as well as in China, Finland, France and Germany. Her pieces can be found in numerous private and public collections, including the Canadian Museum of Civilization, the Museum du Quebec, the Musee des Arts Decorcratifs de Montreal, Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, the Claridge Collection, Montreal, and the Wuspum Museum in Wisconsin.

Threadlet on a filament
Variable height x 15" x 5"
Flame worked glass, metal

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