Photograph by Ed Pollard, Hasselblad H4D50 - 2022.

Images(2)

Ukhambas (spring)

Artist Corey Pemberton (American, born 1990)

CultureAmerican

Date2021

MediumBlown and wheel-carved glass with brass lid

Dimensions11 1/2 × 7 in. (29.2 × 17.8 cm)

Credit LineMuseum purchase with funds from the Arthur and Renée Diamonstein Memorial Fund

Object number2022.33.2

On View

Chrysler Museum of Art, Gallery 119, Case 65

DescriptionThis is one of three separate vessels that are meant to be shown together as a triptych. This vessel is the shorter yellow with green vessel and gold colored lid. Each vessel is made with murrini, i.e. patterned glass slices that were cut from a complex glass cane. These have been fused together and picked up onto a blow pipe, then shaped and inflated into a hollow glass vessel. After annealing, the vessel was cold-worked with long and shallow facet cuts using a wheel and fitted with a simple, shallow brass lid with a finial. The patterning of the murrini is essentially geometric in a palette of opaque pale mint-green, white, and yellow glass with some translucent colorless glass on one vessel as well. All three vessels have an organic, gourd-like shape. The tallest vessel is narrowest at its rim, widening gradually towards a rounded base; its patterning is a mix of stripes and checked mint-green and white glass. The shortest vessel has a similar color palette and patterning; a squat vessel, it is narrowest near the rim and expands to a fat body with a rounded base. The shape and size of the medium vessel lies somewhere between these two; its color palette includes opaque white, yellow-orange, and red, with some lenses of translucent colorless glass that form a loose checkerboard pattern.
ProvenanceAlma's RVA to CMAExhibition HistoryCrafting the Vernacular at KMAC Museum in Louisville, KY (November 20, 2021 - April 3, 2022). Tender Presence at Gallery 2052 in Chicago, IL (May 24 - July 17, 2022). Tender Presence at Alma's RVA in Richmond, VA (July 17 - September 10, 2022). Tender Presence at Penland's Horn Gallery (October 4 - November 26, 2022)Published ReferencesCorning Museum of Glass, Tami Landis, ed., _New Glass Review 44_ (Corning, NY: Corning Museum of Glass, 2024) p.111.