船
Boat
2006
艺术家Steven Weinberg的《船》系列创作始于《立方体》完结五年之后，此系列在铸件中首次运用了曲线，作品造型本身不单反映了船身的外部形态，更融合了Weinberg对水和海岸生活的热爱。在《船》系列中，艺术家开始放弃对内部建筑元素的运用，通过对光线的捕捉和采用布局精巧的气泡来强化船身造型的曲线感。而且在这一系列中，Weinberg也首次尝试了结合金、银等纯金属，通过铸造将其与玻璃结合成为一体，以全新、创造性的方式采用古老的彩色玻璃制造技术来实现现代水晶玻璃铸造。
Steven Weinberg’s Boat series began 5 years after he stopped working on the series “Cubes.” Although he is still working within the parameters of a simple geometry, here the artist uses a form that is less rigid than the cube, and introduces the curve for the first time in his castings. More significantly the form reflects the exterior shape of a boat’s hull and references Weinberg’s love of the water and living by the sea.
In the boat series, the artist steps away from the use of inner architectural elements and uses carefully placed air bubbles to enhance the curved form of the vessel and play with light. For the first time as well, Weinberg introduces the pure metals: gold and silver, and marries them to the glass by casting them as one integrated and unified material. In this way, he uses the age-old technique of creating colored glass in a completely innovative and technologically advanced approach to glassmaking and casting crystal.
Steven Weinberg是新一代玻璃艺术工作室艺术家的代表。在七十年代初期，Weinberg在Alfred学习陶瓷艺术，但是他很快转换到了玻璃艺术，师从玻璃工作室艺术家先锋AndreBilleci和从英国的皇家艺术学院毕业的苏格兰艺术家EricHilton。1979年Weinberg正式毕业，并开始筹建自己的工作室，独立设计和打造工作室的所有设备，这在七十年代的美国是一种非常前卫的做法。
近30年来，Weinberg一直从事玻璃艺术创作，并以此做为自己的事业，成为一名自由艺术家。他一直在罗德岛的工作室中，不断创作和创新，在这里诞生了众多不同系列的作品。
Born in 1954, Weinberg represents the next generation of studio glass artists. In the early 1970s, Weinberg also studied ceramics at Alfred, but he soon switched over to glass, working with studio glass pioneer Andre Billeci, and the Scottish artist Eric Hilton, who had come to Alfred from London’s Royal College of Art.
Upon his graduation in 1979, Weinberg began to build his studio practice, and in his case, he literally built it, starting with the development and construction of his studio equipment. Although popular now, Weinberg’s interest in kiln-casting and in cutting and polishing glass was quite uncommon in American studio glass of the late 1970s.
Over the 30 years that Weinberg has been working with glass, he has made a living as an independent artist and he has worked as a designer for various companies.