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Stefanie Pender
Stefanie Pender [RISD MFA ’09, Glass]
My expanded definition of art includes my presence, actions, discussion, imagination, and teaching in addition to my dedication to making objects, demonstrations, and performances. My sculptural gestures capture a moment between form and formlessness. I exploit the various material phases of glass to embody the fluidity of liquid in its molten phase and the weightlessness of vapor after it is blown. I use its range of material forms to infuse a visible transformation within an object. As a contemporary alchemist I endeavor to transform the ordinary into the sublime.
I exploit glasses’ optical qualities of transparency, translucency, distortion, reflection and refraction to explore the amorphous qualities of form. I also utilize its qualities of being both strong and extremely fragile. Because of these qualities, the material properties of glasses perform to merge concepts of the visible/invisible, absence/presence, seen/unseen and existence/nonexistence.
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