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View from Within Presented by the Alper Initiative for Washington Art*
Rhoda Baer, Artist
June 17 – August 13, 2023
“In truth, I still think it’s all magic.”
—Rhoda Baer
Rhoda Baer, Waiting for Nightfall, 2019. Carved and color laminated optical glass, 17 x 5.5 x 5.25 inches. Photo: Rhoda Baer
Rhoda Baer, The Tiger in the Long Satin Dress, 2022. Carved and color laminated optical glass, 12.5 x 9.75 x 9.5 inches.
Rhoda Baer, Snow Hawk at Dawn (on left), 2022. Carved and color laminated optical glass, 14 x 5.25 x 4.5 inches. Mist Falling on Angel Wings (on right), 2022. Carved and color laminated optical glass 12.75 x 6.25 x 5.75 inches.
Exhibition Overview
Laminating clear optical glass with colored minerals to make glass sculptures is a complicated and technically advanced process done by very few glass artists. Through a vocabulary of geometric shapes and nuanced tones, Rhoda Baer produces extraordinary pieces that sing with rhythmic fullness.
A precise manipulation of light, color and form creates mystery in her glass sculptures. Walk around one of her pieces. The colors diffuse, reflect, and disappear …almost like magic.
*About the Alper Initiative for Washington Art.