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Isaac Katzoff

Glaas forms
 

 

Isaac Katzoff learned to blow glass while studying art at Southern Illinois University. He graduated with a BFA in 2001 and moved to California. There he worked as a glassblowing tutor at the Craftcenter of the University of California in San Diego. He now lives and works in Auckland.

“In 2008 I moved to Auckland to work for Gaffer Glass, manufacturing coloured glass for glass artists. The Glassforms grew out of that repetitive manufacturing environment. As a blown glass object they are simple and straight forward. They are coloured glass. Individually that simplicity exhibits and accentuates the beautiful and attractive qualities of glass; the brilliance of colour and transparency, the subtlety of reflection. But in groups, together, a complexity develops. Their variation in size and shape reveals that they are handmade. Their differences in form and colour create relationships between them. Something else begins to happen beyond, and because of, the repetitive production process. The practice of making these glassforms has done the same for me as a glass artist, allowing a creative space where something else can begin to happen.”