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John BlazyGender
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Cleveland, OHI was a high-end furniture artist for ten years, but just scraped by, so I began to hate the art world, and took a job as a chemist in UV curable resins. Then I invented a laminated glass that is optically identical to dichroic glass called Dichrolam, and reinstated my design studio to market Dichrolam - unlimited size dichroic laminated glass. As a high-end designer, this is my dream material, so I suppose that sometimes a designer must invent the very materials he is designing for. So now I am the first designer/artist to create with this new media of art - TRULY original art. But now I hate the Art world again. In the architectural glass world, I'm Known by architects (clients like MTV, Disney, Bloomberg, etc), but the high-end art galleries? I can't even buy a lead without doing the wholesale shows again. So now I just do my sculpture for personal fulfillment, and maybe peer review on this site. (Sorry, but I do not sell my glass to glass artists)
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I KNOW how you feel about the ART world.
Beautiful art you create my friend. Dennis is right too bad you do not sell to worthy artists.
catherine
Thank you for the encouraging comment. I go to galleries and see beautiful work, but rarely original. Isn't that the dream of a gallery - to find the FIRST artist to work in a NEW media that never existed before, not to mention a media with supreme visual dynamism?
But I do get a charge out of creating awesome pieces. I really would like to sell to artists, but I am only a one man operation (with some reps and subs) and I would lose money selling only a few sq ft of material (my minimum is 10 sq ft or $250.00) not to mention the hours of phone conversations answering fabrication questions. Especially when I am currently working on a $125K tapestry project and a $60K children's hospital right now.
Too bad you do not sell your glass. Looks like something a grinder like me would like to work with.
Dennis Swan
You're craft is well honed - I read your blog. Yes, I know about the labor of grinding and polishing all too well. I use diamond then Trizact, then cerium but there is still no fast method.
I would like to sell to artists, but I would lose money quickly. Send me an e-mail if you could meet my $250.00 minimum order, but my glass is laminated, and is problematic to grinding compared to real dichroic glass, and you may not like it.