Angela Isola Maria Potticary

Contemporary Glass Artist

Creating Custom Contemporary Glass and Mixed Media Art for Private and Commercial Residences

contact:

http://www.angeleyesuncut.deviantart.com/

www.glassbyangela.boundlessgallery.com.

201 East Gregory Drive, Champaign, IL 61820
angela.isola.maria@gmail.com
(513) 227-6049

education:

Bachelor of Arts in Music, June 2006
North Central College, Naperville, Illinois

Special Courses and Workshops:

Glass I and II, August 2007 to May 2008 – learned glass cutting techniques, created pieces with lead, copper foil, fusing, 3D, overlays, and studied painting technique with trace, enamels, and silver stain.
Design II (3D Design), January 2008 to May 2008 - worked with traditional and non-traditional media to create contemporary/conceptual sculpture.
Beginning Glass Class (Flameworking) September 2007 – learned to make beads, figurines, marbles and blown ornaments through torch work.

Awards and Recognition:

Featured in the SJC Student Art Exhibition at the Tippecanoe Arts Federation’s Wells Center, Lafayette, IN for “Tranquility” – copper foil/painted glass, 2008 (Picture 3)
Featured in Measure, the Saint Joseph’s College Literary Magazine for “Autumn Rain” – leaded glass, 2008 (Picture 4)

Clients:

Private Home Owner, Cincinnati, OH, 2008
Commissioned to design and create “Financial Wine” – copper foil/copper wire
Saint Joseph’s College, Rensselaer, IN 2008
Commissioned to design and create “Redefining Reverence” – copper foil/painted glass (Picture 2)
Private Home Owner, Columbus, OH, 2007
Commissioned to design and create “Caduceus” – copper foil/painted glass

artist statement:

Although I have spent the majority of my life focusing on music, I have always created art through ceramics, acrylics and mixed media sculpture. In the summer of 2007 I found my passion for glass at a glass studio in Connecticut and redirected my goals to pursuing a full-time career in stained glass art.

I have a completely original creative process, untouched by the rules of the academic art world. I make window panels, 2D wall sculptures, business card and candle holders, fused glass pieces and many others. I also incorporate other elements into my works to enhance the depth and dimensionality - scraffitto, glass paint, poetry, overlays, jewels, etc.

I spend most of my time getting inspiration through the strengths and weaknesses of the human body and spirit, music and abstract art. My art is full of color and texture and each piece has specific, well thought out meaning behind it. I specialize in abstract design and feminine forms and I am currently exploring the themes of “cafés” and “the seven deadly sins”. - Angela Potticary

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