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Artist
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"Creating
objects from molten glass is a seductive experience.
Here, the material has the ability to dictate the result.
I am working to challenge the material, the audience
and myself by exploring the boundaries of form and
function."
"Molten glass responds to every bodily movement
of the artist and maker. My work is directly related to the physical
and mental challenges of creating objects from a living material.
I look to tame the material, illustrated by creating hard-edged
forms, while allowing its intrinsic qualities to accent these
forms - a gesture of movement through color at the edge. The
objects I am currently exploring challenge the notion of function
while still leaving the question open to interpretation." |
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Christopher's artist statement as it related to his collaboration
with Kathleen Young: "We
are both driven to use our hands, compelled to enliven personal
images
of shape
and proportion though physical action. Together and apart,
we are obliged to create.
One visualizes, both execute. One composes, both perform. Working
separately and in
concert, we actualize forms, materialize visions and impose
an aesthetic structure upon
a liquid material glass."
Christopher A. Constantin
co-founder, Young Constantin, Inc.
January 9, 1957 - June 13, 2001
CHRISTOPHER A. CONSTANTIN
Birthplace: New
Orleans, Louisiana
Birth Date: January
9, 1957
Education: Goddard
College, Plainfield, VT
Virginia
Commonwealth University, Richmond, VA
Special
Projects Student in Glass
Related Work Experiences:
Josh Simpson Contemporary
Glass, Shelburne, MA
Robert Burch Glass, Putney,
VT
Haystack Mountain School of Crafts,
Deer Isle, ME
Intensive studies with Lino Tagliapierta,
of Murano,
Venice, Italy 1988 & 1990
KATHLEEN A. YOUNG
Birthplace: Summit,
New Jersey
Birth Date: June
16, 1954
Education: Wilkes College,
Wilkes Barre, PA
University
of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA, BFA 1977
Virginia
Commonwealth University, Richmond, VA
Postgraduate
work in painting
Related Work Experiences:
Deerfield Historic
Village, Old Deerfield, MA
Deerfield Potter in Residence
1977
Stone Mountain Pottery, Monterey,
MA
Assistant potter 1978-1979
Cross Mill Gallery, Ashland,
VA
Assistant in painting,
photography, drawing and papermaking 1980-81
Haystack Mountain School of Crafts,
Deer Isle, ME
Intensive study in silversmithing
1990
SELECT SHOWS:
Herter
Gallery, Amherst, MA - Group Sculpture Show 1976
Herter Gallery, Amherst,
MA - Group Pottery Show 1977
Louisiana Crafts Council,
Baton Rouge, LA
13th Annual Craftsman Show 1980
Cudahay's Gallery, Richmond, VA - One Person
Show 1981
Chatham Fields Semi-Annual Catalog,
Chatham, NY 1983-1984
Elaine Potter Gallery, San Francisco, CA,
Group Show 1985
Craftsman's Gallery, Scarsdale,
NY 1985
Signature Gallery, Boston, MA, Group Show
1985
Artisans Gallery, Great Neck,
NY, Group Glass Show 1985
A Singular Place, Santa Monica, CA, One Person
Show 1985
David Bernstein Gallery, Boston,
MNA, One Person Show 1986
Pacchetto, Newton Center, MA, One Person Show
1986
Don Muller Gallery, Northampton, MA Group Glass Show 1989, 1990, 1991
The Rachel Collection, Aspen,
CO 1996
Gingerbread Square Gallery, Key West, FL1994 - Present
PUBLICATIONS:
House Beautiful, February 1988, High-Toned Glass
Neues Glas, June 1988, New Glass Review 9, The Corning Museum of
Glass
Gift Reporter, January 1990, Beauty in the Bottle
The L.S. Collection, 1991
Home Magazine, April 1982, True Blue
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