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Artist Bio

Kelly Robertson for last fifteen years has used glass as his primary artistic medium. He has studied both traditional and modern styles from institutions like Corning, Penland and studied with acclaimed glass artists from the American studio movement. Over the course of his carrier he has shown work across the South Eastern United States in museums, galleries, and universities. Kelly's has also worked as a traveling glass blower. Touring with his mobile glass studio to demonstrate and teach glass making techniques to a wide variety of audiences and students. His glass influences include Fritz Driesbach, Ralph Harvey, and Jack Wax. Although Kelly primarily works with glass he looks to the abstract expressionism to draw both meaning and color traditions. Currently he is working as an artist in resident with Atlanta Hot Glass Studio in Decatur GA. Where he continues to teach and explore glasses potential.

Artist Statement

My body of work exists in the modern arts and craft movement, as an American studio artist. This series ripples in time are series where I seek to express the balance between the natural and the manufactured. The forms are produced but I allow the glass to influence to overall shape of the piece. Each piece in the series is different and unique. They are a literal expression of a body of water frozen in time. The contrasting color pattern is applied in a uniform rings running down the body. Just as if you tossed a pebble in water the color rings start off bold and begin to weaken as the move away from their inception. Then I begin to disturb the ring by combing the glass surface to alliterate the idea that we are constantly affected by unseen forces and in a way this seeks to express a simple moment we make a single decision.