Sunday, April 26, 2009

Another piece of art!

Back in January Jerry and I went on an expedition to jump start the economy by buying art with the money Mom sent us from Jack's estate. We ran out of room in the car before we ran out of money to spend.

One of the galleries we went through had some pieces by the glass artist Scott Amrhein. They were somewhat large and would have been a task to place even by such an expert arranger as Jerry. Besides, as I said, we had filled the car with other pieces so we had to leave them behind.

There is a gallery in La Jolla that carries Mr. Amrhein's work. Yesterday we went shopping in La Jolla. We came home with a piece whose scale fits our house.

Here are some pictures of it. I took several with different exposures. I couldn't figure out which to show you so here are three. You have to decide with shows it off best.

This picture was taken without a flash and was somewhat underexposed (thus the graininess). I tweaked it just a bit to increase its exposure.

This one is without a flash but was a bit overexposed.

And one with a flash. It brings out some of the colors that we probably won't see with normal lighting.

Glass is such a pretty material, especially in the hands of a great artist.

7 comments:

BobbieS53 said...

That's pretty amazing glass. Neato touch with the metal...can't wait to see it!

Poss said...

The piece looks beautiful glad you got it after the girls were there.

P-Doobie said...

Gorgeous piece! Congratulations on another triumph!

RetroMag said...

Incredible! How does he DO that? I, too, am anxiious to see it! Where are you displaying it? How big is it?

Colleen said...

Great acquisition! Check out my blog later to see how I combined your 3 shots into an HDR file, then fooled with it, then JPEGed it.

Shoe said...

beautiful!

Chuckbert said...

It's on the bookcase near the clock (under Espino).

It's about 23"w x 10"d x 14"h (including the base).