Museum of Glass Welcomes Visiting Artist Gabriella Bisetto

Museum of Glass Welcomes Visiting Artist Gabriella Bisetto June 26 – 30

Tacoma, Wash. — Australian artist Gabriella Bisetto will be the Visiting Artist in the Hot Shop at Museum of Glass from Wednesday, June 26 through Sunday, June 30. This residency concludes

with a lecture on Sunday, June 30 at 4:00 p.m which will be streamed live from the Museum’s website. 

“Bisetto’s exploration of the human form leads to work which is incredibly thought provoking” states Susan Warner, Executive Director of the Museum of Glass. “Her plan this week to experiment with both scale and color will certainly lead to interesting work, and I am excited to see what she creates.”

Throughout her work, Gabriella Bisetto has maintained a fascination with the human form and its processes. Her art gives substance to the often invisible interior systems of the human body, and plays with the dueling forces that make up life: the transitory and the permanent; the seen and the unseen; the tangible and the intangible. Bisetto’s use of metaphor and emotion rather than the literalism of science to explain the phenomena of the human form imbues her work with a universal theme to which everyone can relate.

Bisetto began her career by obtaining her Bachelor of Visual Art in glass from the Institute of the Arts at the Australian National University. From there, she became the Production Manager of the Glass Department at the Jam Factory, and since 2002 she has been the Studio Head of the Ceramic and Glass Workshop at the University of South Australia. Bisetto was a finalist for both the Ranamok Prize for Conetmporary Glass and the Tom Malone Prize, and has been a guest speaker at both the Tate Modern in London, England and the Ausglass Conference in Canberra, Australia. Her work is in the collections of multiple institutions in Australia and in private collections worldwide.

Currently on view at Museum of Glass are multiple pieces from Bisetto’s Exchange and The Shape of Breath series as part of the exhibition Links: Australian Glass and the Pacific Northwest on view until January 2014.