Photograph by Ed Pollard, Hasselblad H4D50 - 2020.

Images(2)

Tactual Stimulation (Light Peach Cream)

Artist Dafna Kaffeman (Israeli, born 1972)

CultureIsraeli

Date2007

MediumFlameworked glass filaments on a silicone core

Dimensions7 1/4 × 9 × 9 in. (18.4 × 22.9 × 22.9 cm)

Credit LineMuseum purchase with funds from the Renee Diamonstein Memorial Fund

Object number2019.37

Collections

Glass Art

On View

Chrysler Museum of Art, Gallery 119, Case 66

DescriptionThis object is a small sculpture made of flameworked glass filaments attached to a silicone core. The glass color is light peach cream opalescent (Bullseye Glass Co. color #000034). The sculpture is spheroid in form, with its surface entirely covered by thin spines that curve upwards and inwards towards a hollow central space. Each spine terminates in a tiny bulb.
ProvenanceThe artist; Bullseye Projects, Portland Oregon (representing gallery); purchased by the Chrysler Museum of Art.Published ReferencesThe Corning Museum of Glass, "Recent Important Acquisitions from Collections Worldwide," in _New Glass Review_ 2020, no. 41, p.112.