Anthony Corradetti
About the Artist
Like most artists, Mr. Corradetti works in a series. His work usually starts with an idea or feeling that he wants to convey. The feeling, if vague at the onset, becomes clearer as he works through the process. He begins a body of work by producing a series of glass forms. Working directly with the glass on the blowpipe, he aims not to duplicate forms but rather to give each piece a unique quality. After blowing a series of forms, the furnaces are shut down and he moves onto the next stage. The glassblowing studio becomes a painting studio where he works on several pieces at once bringing them to completion over the next few months.
He paints directly onto the pieces with luster paint (a commercial glass paint that must be fired in a kiln to permanently fuse it to the surface of the glass). This is done in a way that creates a flow of imagery around the vessel. A dozen or more layers of paint will be applied to each piece, and each one is fired separately. A vessel takes nearly two months to finish.
His works are in the collections of the National Portrait Gallery, the Smithsonian American Art Museum, the DC White House Collection of American Crafts, the DC Renwick Gallery, and the Smithsonian Instititute of Washington DC.
