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Crystal Math

Photo: Susan Cole

Crystal Math

2007

Oscar Tuazon

American, born 1975

Eli Hansen

American, born 1979

Brothers Oscar Tuazon and Eli Hansen both participated in the residency program at Pilchuck, and their collaboration builds upon both of their backgrounds: Hansen’s more formal training in glass, and Tuazon’s in sculpture and installation. They are fascinated with countercultural societies and do-it-yourself lifestyles, but are also steeped in the traditions of studio glass in the Pacific Northwest. As such, the bevel-cut crystal forms featured here refer to hippie-era geodesic domes and the mathematical systems by architect Buckminster Fuller that guided them, as well as bourgeois candy dishes and drug paraphernalia.


 


Blown, cut, assembled glass and plywood
36 x 30 in. (91.4 x 76.2cm) approx.
Gift of Merrill Wright, in honor of the 75th Anniversary of the Seattle Art Museum
2007.69
Photo: Susan Cole
location
Not currently on view

Resources

Exhibition HistoryVancouver, British Columbia, ": VOluntary Non vUlnerable; The Bodgers' and Kludgers' Co-operative Art Parlour", March 24 -April, 20, 2007
Published ReferencesDarling, Michael et al. "Betty Bowen Award: Thirty Years." Seattle, WA: Seattle Art Museum, 2009, pp. 68-69, illus. p. 69

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