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
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)