Bowls

Date 1981

Dimensions 5 1⁄4 x 12 in.

Medium Sandblasted, enameled glass

Featured Smithsonian American Art Museum

To make Pink Gesture, Margie Jervis and Susie Krasnican started with a symmetrical clear glass bowl provided by fellow artist and glassblower Jim Harmon. Jervis and Krasnican masked off different areas with rubber sheeting, then used a sandblaster to erode away large sections. The artists experimented with temporary color combinations by painting with acrylics directly onto the glass. When the desired color was found, they matched it in heat-set enamel paint, which was permanently fired onto the piece. The zigzagged edges of the vessel make it appear as if this is one half of a sphere twisted open to reveal the pastel pink inside.

Date 1981

Dimensions 6 x 8 3⁄8 in.

Medium Blown, sandblasted, enameled glass

Featured Smithsonian American Art Museum

Date 1979

Dimensions 3 1⁄2 x 8 1⁄2 x 9 1⁄4 in.

Medium sandcast and sandblasted glass

Featured Smithsonian American Art Museum

Date 1981

Dimensions 5 ⅓ x 10 ⅓ in.

Medium Pale green-tinted glass; blown, sandblasted, enameled

Featured Corning Museum of Glass

Hemispherical bowl shape; broad irregular sandblasted rim and thick walls; interior enameled yellow and sand coated; exterior and base enameled blue and sand coated; flat slightly concave base

Date 1981

Dimensions 3 ¼ x 11 x 10 ½ in.

Medium Blown, sandblasted, enameled glass

Featured Detroit Institute of Arts