We welcomes Dale Reiger back to the gallery with his kiln formed glass structures, tables, and bowls.
Dale describes his style as both primitive and elegant, using elementary shapes which translate into symbols. These symbols help to create a highly personalized iconography drawing on Dale's artistic, spiritual, and international background. He uses color, including iridized and dichromatic glass, as a language, each color having its own code and texture. He is engaged in a dialogue of the harmony and dissonance of color. In glass, bright luminosity is often contrasted by dark transparent colors, which allows the light to penetrate, but not to reveal.
Most of Dale's kiln formed glass is cast or a combination of fusing and casting. His multi colored glass houses are thick cast plates of glass over a metal or wood superstructure. These sculptures, some over 8' tall, are for indoor or outdoor use and can have interior lighting. His table tops are up to 2" thick. Of the six kilns that Dale has, the three biggest, capable of making up to a 7' piece of glass, were custom built and allow Dale to make large and varied projects simultaneously. Along with these wonderful structures Dale also makes beautiful bowls, stop by to see the whole collection.
Dale describes his style as both primitive and elegant, using elementary shapes which translate into symbols. These symbols help to create a highly personalized iconography drawing on Dale's artistic, spiritual, and international background. He uses color, including iridized and dichromatic glass, as a language, each color having its own code and texture. He is engaged in a dialogue of the harmony and dissonance of color. In glass, bright luminosity is often contrasted by dark transparent colors, which allows the light to penetrate, but not to reveal.
Most of Dale's kiln formed glass is cast or a combination of fusing and casting. His multi colored glass houses are thick cast plates of glass over a metal or wood superstructure. These sculptures, some over 8' tall, are for indoor or outdoor use and can have interior lighting. His table tops are up to 2" thick. Of the six kilns that Dale has, the three biggest, capable of making up to a 7' piece of glass, were custom built and allow Dale to make large and varied projects simultaneously. Along with these wonderful structures Dale also makes beautiful bowls, stop by to see the whole collection.
