Spring is fast approaching and Golden’s Spirits in the Wind Gallery is reflecting that change this season with its latest glass show.
Eight glass artists will have their work on display at the gallery, 1211 Washington Ave., until April 12. Spirits in the Wind is open Monday through Saturday, 10 a.m. to 6 p.m., Sunday, 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. and is closed Wednesday.
“We have mostly local artists, and a few national artists,” Pam Eggemeyer, the gallery owner and director said. “I wanted artists that didn’t just do vases, but also fused and blown glass, and sculptures.”
According to Eggemeyer, this is the first glass show featured in the gallery, but she has long enjoyed glass art and has been incorporating it into the items she sells for years.
“All the artwork is different, and that is what I love about glass — that one of a kind beauty,” she said. “You never know how the work is going to come out — even as an artist you have limited control.”
The artists on display are: Heidi Riha, who does art fused glass; Lorraine Coyle, who does crystal carving; Marcia Klump, who works in slump glass; Tammy Bality, who creates led crystal sculptures; Tammy Bality, who creates led crystal sculptures; Dave LaMure Jr.; who does glass sculpture; Steve Quintero, who creates hand blown glass; Paul Lockwood, who creates hand blown glass; and Anne Nye, who does art fused glass.
Some of the art on display will be functional — like tables and bowls — while others will be incredibly detailed pieces for display. Costs on items start as low as $10 and go up from there.
Coyle is a Colorado-based artist who has been working in the glass field for around 33 years. Glass work was something she became interested in as a young adult, and her work has received increasing amounts of attention as her skills have grown.
She opened up Evergreen Crystal, and has done work for the National Press Foundation, vocational awards presented by former president George H. Bush, and President Barack Obama’s 2008 inaguration luncheon.
“It’s been fun over the years to develop the skills that I needed to create these different kinds of pieces,” Coyle said. “Glass is a blank canvas, and its fun to find the shape I want in it.”
Coyle met Eggemeyer at a show in Denver, and the built up a relationship, that lead to Eggemery featuring Coyle’s work at the gallery.
“Anything people can visualize, I can do,” Coyle said. “It’s a really funny process to work with people and get what they have in their mind out. It gives me a chance to get really creative.”
The glass show is a way for Eggemeyer to try something new out at Spirits in the Wind — something that she still gets excited about, 21 years after opening the gallery.
“We’re always looking for something unique to highlight here,” she said. “We want to give attention to things that other galleries may not do.”
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