01/26/2024
Awesome shoutout from Live Auctioneer of an upcoming auction with a piece from a private collection. Please checkout the nice description on my work and process. You can also see whole Live Auctioneer information through my bio on my Instagram profile.
“SARASOTA, Fla. – Sidney Hutter (b. 1954-) is a leading member of the American Art Glass movement, having singlehandedly changed how people approach and use laminated glass in sculptural designs. Heavily geometric, Hutter’s sculptures are amplified and brought to life by his innovative and often stunning use of light.
He began his education at Illinois State University as a sociology major in college and soon drifted towards crafts, landing in the glass-blowing lab, where he spent the rest of his undergraduate career. He opted to pursue a post-graduate degree at the Massachusetts College of Art, but early in his second term, the glass-blowing studio was destroyed by fire. This caused Hutter to look at other ways of working with glass, and in the process, he invented the plate-glass vase in 1979. This landmark creation of his has now evolved into more than two dozen designs that are highly sought after by glass collectors worldwide.
Featured in Habatat Galleries’ 39th Masterworks Auction on Thursday, February 1 is Hutter’s White House Cubic Heart Vase #14. The stunning piece dates to 1997 and measures 17.5 by 13.5 by 13in. It exemplifies Hutter’s use of cut plate glass stacked geometrically, employing embedded pigments in various glass elements to produce highly dramatic effects. Habatat states that it has been representing Hutter since the mid-1980s and considers this piece “one of the artist’s finest works.” It carries an estimate of $20,000-$25,000”
