Art Glass Vases by Victor Chiarizia

Victor Chiarizia's glass is well-known for its technical innovations, organic forms and spirited colorations. His most acclaimed work includes The Botanicals, a series of sculptures with flameworked glass which is treated with multiple applications of enamels to give luster and luminosity to the vines, blossoms, fruit, human hands, and other elements that cling to amorphous hot glass vessels.

Chiarizia also creates limited-edition vessels and sculptures which demonstrate an exceptional use of Incalmo, a 500 year-old Venetian technique that requires the artist to create cup-shape vessels which are then connected to one another on the blow pipe. Incalmo and reverse incalmo are complex and physically demanding processes for even the most experienced glassblowers. Chiarizia uses this unusual technique to produce large vertical and diagonal bands of color within a vessel. In addition, he has also earned acclaim for the Volcanic Series of glass sculptures with sand-carved and etched surfaces to reveal deeply organic textures and colorations upon a Pate de Verre base.

• The Studio at the Corning Museum of Glass / CORNING, NY
• Haystack School of Crafts / DEER ISLE, ME
• Salem College / PENNSGROVE, NJ

• 2004 New Glass Review 25
• Museum of Art and Design
• NICHE Award for Excellence in Flameworked Glass

• The Palace Hotel / BEIJING
• Absolut Vodka / TEANECK, NJ
• Royal Caribbean / LONDON, UK
• Herald Examiner Building / LOS ANGELES, CA
• Sandwich Glass Museum / SANDWICH, MA
• The Smithsonian / WASHINGTON, DC
• Heublein Corporation / FARMINGTON, CT