Randi Solin
Selected Works
Purple Maglione, Hand Blown Glass Vessel, 9.5" x 18.5" x 5"
Blue Maglione -A horizontal mantle or table top piece with deep blue colored glass, multiple canes, and silver foil from Japan. Large cut and polished lip, 9.5″ x 18.5″ x 5″
Flight,A bird taking off from the water, Flight, hundreds of glass cane and lapis blue glass. The bottom is 3” thick glass, 36” L x 12” H
Fontainebleau Mykonos, blown glass vessel features sterling silver foil and a striated ribbon of golden glass
Greenland-Looking into the melting polar ice caps of Greenland, blown glass with silver foil, blue, and black glass, 14” H x 12” W
Thaw -Winter turning to Spring, blown glass sculpture internal and external silver foil from Japan, 14” H x 13” W x 3” D
Breathe -The feeling you get on a windy day, glass cane and external silver foil, 14” H x 13” W x 3” D
Lapis Borsetta – Looking through clear glass front into hundreds of glass cane and silver leaf. The back is coffee brown, lapis blue and silver foil from Japan. 14″ x 10″ x 4″
Miro – A bulbous form with deep purples, circle patterns, latticinio cane over silver foil that looks like fabric, thick cut and polished lip. 15″ x 8″ x 6″
Randi Solin “Mujeres” hand blown glass vessel burgundy and amber glass . 16” x 12” x 5”
Aquos – Aquos window is like looking under the water with rich blues and greens. 14″ x 10″ x 4″
Reeds- Hundreds of green and salmon colored glass cane with silver foil inclusions, hot sculpted glass 26” H x 12” W
Catalonia Kauri- A graceful form with the coloration of a shell from the coast of Spain, blown glass sculpture, 24” H x 8” W
Azul Kauri – The Kauri tree loses its branches and has its limbs outstretched to the sky. Blue glass with silver foil,
24” H x 8” W
Gossamer Kauri – Gossamer like fabric sparkles with silver and white blown glass, 24” H x 8” W
Kauri Trio
“Glacier”, Blown Glass with silver foil, 19” x 7” x 4”
“Gossamer” Blown Clear Glass with gossamer fiber and silver foil, 23” x 6” x 7”
Atlantis Emperor Bowl-features a unique blend of colored glass powders, hand-pulled glass cane, and silver leaf, 7″x7"x7"
Purple Nebula Emperor Bowl .blown glass vessel, 7″x7"x7"
Sahara Emperor Bowl, blown glass vessel, 7″x7"x7"
Black Nebula Emperor Bowl, blown glass vessel, 7″x7"x7"
Gold Ruby Emperor Bowl, blown glass vessel, 7" x 7" x 7"
Internal Aliyah Emperor Bowl, blown glass vessel, 7″x7"x7"
“Orchid Emperor Bowl” hand blown glass,
“Tapestry Emperor Bowl”, hand blown glass
Green Camo Bowl, exquisite blown glass vessel featuring five custom-blended shades of green, layered with clear glass and pure gold leaf, 8" x 8.5" x 8.5"
Pink Camo Bowl, 5 separate pink shards and clear glass hand blown with gold foil
Randi Solin, “Blue Camo” 8” diameter, 5 separate blue glass hues hand blown with gold foil
Teal Camo Bowl, teal and clear hand blown glass with silver leaf,
About Randi
Randi F. Solin first established Solinglass Studio in Mt. Shasta, California in 1995, relocating in 1998 to Brattleboro, Vermont. Her work has been acquired by the permanent collections of The White House. The United States Embassies in Algeri, Guinea, Praia, Mauritania, Benin, Africa, Guatemala, and Paraguay, and has been seen in solo and group shows in fine art glass galleries and museums across the country. Randi’s work is currently represented in many private collections and by over 45 art galleries nationwide.
“My work is rooted in the process of creating. I’m in love with the art of blowing glass, and with its optical properties. I incorporate techniques found in both classic venetian glassblowing and the American Art Glass movement. However, I approach my work two-dimensionally, like a painter to a canvas or a weaver using thread to create an intricate tapestry. My glass pieces are compositions, and, atypical to glass blowing in general, they have a “front.” Generally my forms have an Asian influenced simplicity, which allows for my complex and painstaking coloration process to unfold. I build layer upon layer of color using glass in all particle sizes–powder, cane, frit, and rod–like a painter’s palette, to create original homogeneous coloration and truly one-of-a-kind work.
My optics serve as the window into my coloration process–into the “soul” of a piece–allowing the viewer to peer into its life, like the rings of a tree. All of my pieces are intellectually created on that notion; that with each finished work, a history is revealed. My layering and coloration process is all about showing that the piece was made over time. I accentuate each individual layer, which for me is a tremendously important component to my work. My optics–the cut and polish, the juxtaposition of this organic form with this stark hard edge–is unique to my work and a signature of sorts. My work requires the viewer to interact with the piece, to hold it, pick it up, to look into its interior life, to feel its incredible weight and mass, and to engage with its optics and its coloration." - Randi F. Solin