Profiles and Silhouettes
Three Vessels
Date 1985 / Dimensions 22 ⅝ x 17 in. / Medium Cast, enameled, laminated glass plaques
Folded Silhouettes,1⁄5 Series
Date 1983
Dimensions 11 1⁄4 x 8 1⁄8 x 7 7⁄8 in.
Medium Fused plate glass with fired enamels
Featured Smithsonian American Art Museum
In Folded Silhouettes, 1⁄5 Series, Margie Jervis and Susie Krasnican created an image of two vessels without making traditional vase or bowl forms. They used glass cut-out silhouettes of flat vase shapes and propped them up with another piece of glass perpendicular behind each one. The purple “shadow” of the yellow and pink vase silhouette is painted on the gray vase shape behind it so that their order of placement can never be altered. This creates a trompe l’oeil (trick of the eye) effect: at a certain angle, the piece appears to be two three-dimensional vessels.
“We were thinking about how a two dimensional flat outline can actually represent a three dimensional object. In reaction to that, we decided to make objects in the round from silhouettes.” – Joint statement from the artists about Folded Silhouettes, 1⁄5 Series, 2013
Jug
Date 1985
Dimensions 11 ⅝ x 5 1⁄2 in.
Medium Fused plate glass with fired enamels
Featured Heller Gallery
Folded silhouettes in painted extreme light
Date 1982
Dimensions
(a) 41.9 x 20.9 x 11.4cm (blue section)
(b) 34.2 x 19 x 10.8cm (violet section)
Medium Plate glass fused and enameled, shape cut by sandblasting artwork in two parts
Featured Art Gallery of Western Australia
Jug
Date 1985
Dimensions 11 ⅝ x 5 1⁄2 in.
Medium Fused plate glass with fired enamels
Featured Heller Gallery
Spotlit Bowl
Date 1982
Dimensions 9 1⁄4 x 19 1⁄2 x 9 1⁄2 in.
Medium Plate glass, cut, polished, with enamel
Featured Toledo Museum of Art
Teacup
Date 1985
Dimensions 10 x 5 1⁄2 in.
Medium Form of a teacup and underplate crafted of fused glass and enamel
Featured Hill Auction Gallery