Ann Wåhlström: Stones and Wessels [signed]

Recent work by Sweden's leading glas artist Something both elusive and generous emerges in the charisma of these unpredictable forms. Challenging, headstrong and timeless. The transparent outermost layer of glass protects its contents, announcing a powerful integrity. The surface is crystal clear. Inside, patterns and colors unfold in structures that are occasionally as blatant as candy cane stripes, bubble wrap bubbles, fabric threads – and occasionally, they are inscrutable motifs in their own world. In the last twelve years, Ann Wåhlström has returned repeatedly to work in the American glass studios in Seattle and Tacoma, most recently at the famous Museum of Glass in Tacoma, a studio surrounded by myth and inspired by preeminent glass artist Dale Chihuly. It has a team of glassblowers that has carried on and developed Venetian techniques that are thousands of years old, a prerequisite for Ann’s development of unique works in the exciting partnership to produce glass of this caliber.