Raven Gallery is featuring several new artists Spring 2018. Raven Gallery, located in Aspen, blends extraordinary glass art from around the world with fine art and the art of nature; exceptional minerals, crystals and petrified wood.

1. Raven Gallery - Aspen, CO
433 East Cooper Avenue | Aspen, Colorado 81611 | 970.429.4297
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2. Raven Gallery - Aspen, CO
Spring 2018
NEWLY FEATURED ARTISTS

3. Raven Gallery - Aspen, CO
Mimers Well
34"l Blown and carved glass,
and wood on metal stand
BACKHAUS, BROWN & EGEVAERK
Glasskibe are made in a collaboration between the glass artist duo
Backhaus-Brown and award-winning cabinetmakers Egeværk.
Each ship is constructed of a unique glass hull decorated
Battuto-style. The keel is meticulously crafted to fit the glass hull –
in dimensions as well as expression. The process of creating a glass
ship is long and painstaking – and actually begins three months
prior to assembling the ship; first of all the perfect piece of wood is
selected and stored for drying. Once the creation really begins, each
ship literally goes back and forth between the two workshops
several times before it is done.

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SEAN HENNESSEY
Drink Me
24"t x 13"w x 3"d Backlit,
kiln formed glass relief wall piece
The main body of my artwork is illuminated wall relief sculpture created by
kiln-forming window glass then layering it with a combination of drawing,
painting, digital prints and found objects. Within the form of traditional
didactic architectural relief sculpture I create images and glimpses of
suggested stories involving obstacles, hope, growth, acceptance,
overcoming, and finding a place in the world.

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Green Purple Z Leaf
40.5"h x 8.5"w x 4"d Blown glass
DANTE MARIONI
Dante Marioni burst onto the international glass scene at the age of 19 with a
signature style that has been described as the purest of classical forms executed
in glass by an American glassblower. His amphoras, vases, and ewers are derived
from Greek and Etruscan prototypes, yet they are imaginatively and sometimes
whimsically reinterpreted. His impossibly elongated, sinuous shapes are made
with bright and saturated contrasting colors. Marioni’s sophisticated glass objects
evoke the rich tradition of classical Mediterranean pottery and bronzes, and of
Marioni’s training in centuries-old Venetian glassblowing techniques with some
of the greatest masters in contemporary glass.

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Bluebirds and Cowbirds
26"h x 10.5"dia Blown glass bottle with hot sculpted birds, branch and nest
MARC PETROVIC
Marc Petrovic graduated from the Cleveland institute of art in 1991 where
he was the recipient of the top Agnes Gund Memorial scholarship. He
works out of his private studio that he shares with his wife Kari Russell-Pool
near their home in Essex, Connecticut.
“For nearly two decades I have employed birds and bird imagery as a
metaphor for my ruminations on relationships, parenting, home, shelter,
and geographical identification. As an artist, I have been drawn to the ideas
of identity that grow out of a sense of place and self. In my newest series,
Avian, I take a closer look at this subject as I pixelate, deconstruct and then
reconstruct these birds. They are built, much like we are – one piece, or
experience, at a time.
Because I use glass as my medium, I pixelate by making my own murrini
(slices of variously colored glass canes). I assemble and fuse them into
abstract patterned tablets, which I view as fully realized deconstructed
birds while also forming them, through my own, “hot-origami”
process, into sentient birds.”

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Innercalm
19.75"t x 6.3"w x 6.3"d Painted, laminated, cut & polished glass and granite
WESLEY NEAL RASKO
Upon beginning my creative life as a glass artist I worked primarily with
painted, laminated, ground and polished glass to create my sculptural
objects. In the past few years this process has taken a new shape and form;
I have begun to experiment with new ways of bringing life and uniqueness to
my work by adding complexity within the creative process and simplicity
within the design. By using cast glass, optical glass, granite, wood, and other
materials of contrast I have dived deeper into the positive observations I
sense and can bring a more harmonious and true object to life.

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Ruby Velvet
19"h x 16"l x 21"d Blown glass
RICHARD ROYAL
Richard Royal, a native of the Northwest, is recognized internationally as one of
the most skilled and talented glassblowers in the studio glass movement.
Royal began working as a glass sculptor in 1978 at the Pilchuck Glass School,
located north of Seattle. After spending a number of years as a ceramist, the
birth of a new artistic movement appealed to the young artist. Royal worked
his way through the ranks to find himself as one of Dale Chihuly’s main gaffers.
This relationship lasted for a number of years and consequently led to Royal’s
emergence in the art market in the 1980’s. Royal has since been an independent
artist exhibiting work internationally in both solo and group exhibitions.
Royal’s work is found in such noteworthy museum collections as The Mint
Museum of Art + Design, The High Museum, the New Orleans Museum of Art,
The Tampa Museum of Art, and the Daiichi Museum (Japan). Royal was one of the
first Artists-in-Residences at the Waterford Crystal Factory and he continues to
teach as both a guest artist and faculty member at various universities and the
Pilchuck Glass School. His artwork is also included in the SAFECO Collection,
PricewaterhouseCoopers, IBM, and the Westinghouse Corporation.

9. Raven Gallery - Aspen, CO
433 East Cooper Avenue | Aspen, Colorado 81611 | 970.429.4297
info@ravengalleryaspen.com | www.ravengalleryaspen.com
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