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 Ed
Kachurik was born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, on April 2,
1957. He began working with hot glass in 1978.
Ed has been creating his glass sculptures
for more than two decades and continues to reach deep within
himself to design new creations of art. He attended Penland
School in North Carolina and Pennsylvania State University.
Ed has taken the technical aspects of his studies at Penland
School and combined them with his innate talent to create beautiful
sculptures, which are seen in galleries and museums throughout
the country.
Ed Kachurik uses a technique of treating
the hot glass surface, which is called veiling. Veiling is
a metallic coating that is applied to the hot glass, and then
covered with clear glass, thus trapping the color inside the
sculpture. Kachurik is an independent glass artist who experiments
with precious metals and chemicals to create his own unique
colors. These transparent sculptures maximize the extraordinary
inherent qualities of glass. Every design is handcrafted using
wooden blocks and newspaper to help him work with the molten
glass. After the sculptures have been annealed, they are hand
ground and polished. Each flat surface of the sculpture must
go through six different steps of polishing to achieve the
optical polished finish. The facets are added to give visual
enhancement to the interior glass veiling. Each piece is personally
signed.
| Presence
of his work |
Commissions |
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Private and Public Collections |
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Selected Exhibitions |
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Featured Sculpture |
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Exclusive Sculptures |
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| Commissions |
American Trap Association, Grand American, Awards, shooting competition |
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Atlanta Retriever Club, Atlanta, Georgia |
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Betty Ford Foundation |
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Bride's Magazine |
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Tom Forrester, Former County Commissioner, Pittsburgh, PA |
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Fort Pitt Retriever Club, Pittsburgh, PA, Annual Awards |
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Girl Scouts of America, Pittsburgh, PA, Annual Awards |
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HealthSouth Rehab Hospital Pittsburgh, PA, Annual Awards |
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PPG Industries, Awards for retiring board members |
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Pennsylvania State Trap Association, Awards, shooting competition |
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Pittsburgh Civic Light Opera Association, Awards |
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Pittsburgh International Airport, Outdoor Sculpture, Pittsburgh, PA |
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Pittsburgh Zoo, Pittsburgh, PA |
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Queens College, Annual Awards, Charlotte, NC |
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Sprint Cellular, Chicago, IL |
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University of Pittsburgh, College of General Studies Alumni Society |
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YWCA, New York, NY, Award for the National President |
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YWCA, Pittsburgh, PA, Annual Awards |
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| Private and Public Collections |
Bergstrom-Mahler Museum, Neenah, WI |
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Jimmy Buffett, Entertainer |
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Johnny Carson, Television Personality |
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Cincinnati Art Museum, Cincinnati, OH |
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The Corning Museum of Glass, Corning, NY |
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Jane Orie, PA State Senator |
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Fred Rogers, PBS, Television Personality |
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Sandwich Glass Museum, Sandwich, MA |
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Telfair Museum of Art, Savannah, GA |
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| Selected Exhibitions |
On-going through 2002 - Shattering Notions, Senator
John Heinz Pittsburgh Regional History Center, Pittsburgh,
PA
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2001 Sable V Gallery, 9th Annual “A Gathering Of Glass”, Wimberley, TX |
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2001 L. H. Selman Ltd. The Glass Gallery, Santa Cruz, CA |
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2000 The Corning Museum of Glass, Corning, NY, a solo-exhibit and signing |
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2000 Fire and Ice, Elements Gallery and Northwest Discovery Gallery, Bellevue,
WA |
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1998 Paradies Gallery, Philadelphia, PA |
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| Featured Sculpture |
Ed Kachurik’s sculpture “RAPTURE,” was featured on NBC’s show PROVIDENCE, Friday,
February 2, 2001 |
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| Exclusive Sculptures |
The Corning Museum of Glass, Corning, NY |
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Hanson Galleries, Houston, TX |
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L. H. Selman Ltd. The Glass Gallery, Santa Cruz, CA |
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