Artist Statment
I was immediately grabbed by the beauty and spectacle that is working with hot glass at the start of my undergraduate studies. From my first introduction, glassblowing and hot casting have demanded my focus in a way that silences all distractions and mental noise. Therefore, the processes of hot glass techniques drew me in. However, as I dove deeper into the medium, I experienced how the material naturally possesses qualities that allow glass sculpture to describe invisible entities that surround us everyday. This led me to make wearable glass sculptures and installations that explore how the innate hardness, transparency, and fragility of glass can be used to create and accentuate built, natural, and bodily environments.
Biography
Courtney Tanner is a glass artist who earned her BFA as a double major in Glass and Architecture from Massachusetts College of Art and Design in 2018. Since then she has worked in the glass field at various studios as a production glassblower, public studio teacher, and fine art kiln casting fabricator.
Courtney lives in Salem, MA and works in Boston, MA as a fabricator at Ross Art Studio. In her artwork, Courtney makes sculptures and installations that explore how the innate hardness, transparency, and fragility of glass can be used to create and accentuate built, natural, and bodily environments. Recently, her artwork utilizes multidisciplinary glass techniques that test the structural capabilities and limits of glass.
