Andy Paiko, Blown & sculpted glass
Smith Eliot, Photo-based acrylic lifts on canvas April 26-May 29 
Pictured above: "Spinning Wheel | Andy Paiko’s blown and sculpted glass challenges the role of glass in relation to its function. Paiko makes things that try to both communicate and imitate purpose. Each piece could be viewed as metaphorical; it could comment on the difficulty of life’s everyday decisions, society’s relationship with nature or language, or the way the mind grasps experience through dreams. His object-making process has developed to extend layering, whereas many separate, individual glass parts are fused cold, away from the furnace to form a collage of sorts. This allows for a degree of detail and complexity difficult to achieve on the end of a blowpipe, where a critical immediacy can hinder contemplation. Paiko continues to study new methods of coloration, patterning, and form, including everything from vessel-ware to assembled sculpture and custom design.
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Smith Eliot will be showing photo-based acrylic lifts on canvas. She has entitled her body of work “Honey-heavy dew.” The title is derived from a Shakespearian reference to sleep. For example, in “Cryogenic Dream”, what seems like frost hovers a sleeping woman and in “Dark Glass Bells” hazy, soft edges hint at the image of a woman behind glass or deep in an evening mist. Her images are an atmospheric tour d’ farce with seductive imagery that is somewhat performance in nature. Eliot’s photographic images are shot onto black and white film. Traditional silver gelatin prints are made from them and then toned, hand-painted and high-resolution digital files are created of them. Archival pigment prints are then generated from these digital files.
After the image is mounted, the varnishing process begins. Each piece gets many layers of varnish. The final result is a vibrant artwork with an encaustic-like finish.
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