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.

October is a good time to start buying those special items for gift giving, especially if you are going to be mailing them. Visit us soon!

​I am passionate about nature, wildlife, metalwork and color. My work as a fine art metalsmith combines all of these, and keeps me creatively engaged on a daily basis. Whether I am making a pair of earrings, a sterling box or a 24k gold and copper wall piece, I see variations of the shapes and designs that I have been exploring for decades.  The wall pieces are allowing me to work larger than ever before, and are bringing challenges and rewards in equal measure. I am enjoying applying 24k gold leaf to copper panels to bring a new dimension to the wildlife I use in my designs. The flame patinas add incredible colors in a process that takes me to the knife's edge of disaster or success. That level of challenge at this point of my career is truly a wonderful place to be as an artist.

Drawn to clay, with its earthiness and malleability, Rebecca began her long affair with ceramics at Pewabic Pottery in Detroit. She loved the immediacy of the medium, the way it felt in her hands, the surprises imposed by chemistry through the firings and glazes. 

Always a maker, an avid world traveler, a baker, and gardener, Rebecca finds excitement and fulfillment through exploration. This led her to pursue her MFA at Cranbrook academy of Art. ​

With a long career as a clay modeler and digital sculptor for the automotive industry, Rebecca sees her current work as its balance. She says, “Creating art that provides a place for contemplation, particularly as the world at large gives cause for anxiety, is of great importance to me.  Building community and holding myself responsible for our beautiful planet are values I hope to share within the context of my work”.