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#glass
#Katie Stout
#lamps
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“Cotton Candy Venus” (2024), glass and metal, 22.5 x 11 x 10.5 inches. All photos courtesy of the artist and Nina Johnson, Miami, shared with permission
Artist Katie Stout blurs the road between utilitarian objects and sculptures, creating chandeliers, chairs, tables, and different purposeful designs bearing her signature decorative aesthetic. Utilizing a variety of supplies like ceramic, bronze, glass, and metal, she regularly challenges gendered traditions and craft methods via her playful, expressive works that query the character of attract and worth.
In a current collection of shapely pendant lamps, Stout takes the vessel as a place to begin, an origin arising from the artist’s expertise of changing into a mom. The hand-blown glass kinds bubble and swell inside a welded metal armature that takes the form of a lobster, ear of corn, and prehistoric Venus statute with spherical, exaggerated options.
Lights embedded inside illuminate the lustrous, candy-colored glass, emanating a comfortable glow from inside the exhausting, protecting shells. Referencing symbols of fertility, sustenance, and progress, the pendants hearken again to this profound interval of private transformation and the social and cultural connotations related to motherhood.
Stout continuously exhibits with Nina Johnson in Miami, the place she’s represented, and you’ll comply with her work on Instagram. You additionally may get pleasure from these balloon interpretations of Venus by Reddish Studio.
“Lobster” (2024), glass and metal, 21 x 9 x 5.75 inches
Element of “Lobster” (2024), glass and metal, 21 x 9 x 5.75 inches
“Baby of the Town” (2024), glass and metal, 19.5 x 11 x 7.5 inches
Element of “Cotton Candy Venus” (2024), glass and metal, 22.5 x 11 x 10.5 inches
“Venus of the Corn” (2024), glass and metal, 18 x 7 x 7 inches
“Flower Ball” (2024), glass and metal, 10 x 11 x 12 inches
“Glass Frank 2” (2023), glass and metal, 17 x 14 x 11 inches
#glass
#Katie Stout
#lamps
#mild
#sculpture
#metal
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