Foyer Vignette
It is always great to see how the work looks in a home. The two works offered for sale are “The Cloud of all Knowing” and “Through the Storm”
Snap Shot Purple Dahlia
Snap Shot “Purple Dahlia” Cast glass, black and white photography on wood cradle board 9 inches by 12 inches One of my favorite Dahlias is the purple Dahlia. I have painted it many times in my watercolors. This “Snap Shot” Dahlia is created from one of my photographs. I am always amazed seeing the intricate…
Into the Storm
Large scale cast glass 28 by 8 inches Birds live through all seasons, from warm summers to sub-zero winters. The cast glass wing explores through color and texture all weather cycles a bird survives in both sun and storm. Three small birds at center fly through all elements to emerge in clear weather. This is a story about…
Garden Dahlia
Garden Dahlia Cast glass upright sculpture 9 by 12 inches Debbie Tarsitano “Garden Dahlia” My favorite flower is the Dahlia. I have been growing them in my garden since I childhood. I grow my large sized Dahlia’s from a root. When I first put them in the ground I never really know what the result…
Eagle
“Eagle” Hot formed glass, encased, carved and painted. 8 inches I created “Eagle” at the Corning Museum of Glass Studio where I am an instructor. My roots are in hot glass sculpting. I like to revisit it at times and develop work that is hot sculpted as well as carved and painted. Hot glasswork is…
2007 Pouring
Hot sculpted, encased flameworked glass 8 inches tall
2007 Splash
Hot sculpted, encased flameworked glass 4 inches in diameter
2011 Life Cycle Puzzle
Cast glass 20 by 20 inches I began to think of nature as a cycle and I wanted to capture that cycle in glass. “Life Cycle Puzzle” depicts the life of a bird from egg to its last remains. I wanted to show how even a bird dissolves back to nature, disappearing into the forest floor. I…
2006 Lacy Dahlia
Encased flameworked glass 3 inches in diameter Abstract dahlia with flameworked latticino petals.
2011 Life Cycle of a Bird
Cast glass 11 inches I decided to tell the story of the life cycle using the puzzle as a metaphor. This work speaks of the balance of nature; the transformation of creatures around us. We are all a part of nature, pieces in the puzzle, which always returns to the earth. In the end the bones…
2011 What I Learned While on the Forest Floor
Cast glass 12 inches The forest floor represents deterioration and renewal as leaves return to the soil to rise again in the form of new growth as trees. Sooner or later we all find ourselves on the forest floor.
2008 DNA Boat
Encased flameworked glass Inspired by human profiles and the effects of DNA on the human body. Hand cut and polished by Debbie.
2008 Crystal Woman
Encased, flameworked line drawing portrait in glass During a visit to The Studio of the Corning Museum of Glass, I met Jiri Harcuba and Martin Rosol from the Czech Republic. Martin sculpts cold glass and Jiri is a glass engraver. After meeting Jiri and Martin I began to cut, polish, and engrave my own sculptures.…
1989 American Farmhouse
Engraved, encased flameworked glass In 1976 I met Steuben’s master engraver, Max Roland Erlacher, of Corning, New York. At our first meeting I asked Max, “If I made a drawing, could you engrave it on the base of one of my paperweights?” He answered, “Yes,” and thus began a long and cherished working relationship creating paperweights…
2005 80 Flower Collage
A large encased flamework collage design with multiple flowers with complex millefiori centers 4 inches in diameter Flameworking is very meditative; manipulating glass in a flame often creates a Zen-like feeling. Each flower has a unique, complex center stamen cane. The flamework to make this piece took thousands of hours of concentration and deep thought.…
2006 Urban Intersection
Oil painting on canvas, accompanied by encased, flameworked glass sculpture In designing “Urban Intersection” I first made an oil painting, and then designed a glass sculpture interpreting the oil painting in glass (cutting by Ed Poore). “Urban Intersection” speaks of the busy streets of New York, where thousands of people come and go on grids of…
2007 Lateral Drip
A hot sculpted, encased flameworked red dahlia 4 inches These designs revisit my “Red Dahlia,” recreating dahlias in sculptural forms that push the limits of hot-forming glass in a torch. After more than thirty years of torch work, I had developed great control over hot moving glass. This drip design however poses extreme difficulty because of…
1990 The Outstretched Hand of Liberty
Encased flameworked glass, engraving, marble 36 by 20 inches I designed and created the large-scale sculpture, “The Outstretched Hand of Liberty,” in 1989. The artistic concept was to use flameworked glass, crystal encasement and engraving to depict a universal and timeless story that most American families can identify with – the idea of coming to…
2000 Mother Theresa
Engraved, encased flameworked glass 4 inches in diameter The humanitarian efforts of Mother Theresa, “Saint of the Gutters,” of Calcutta, India, touched me greatly. Both she and Anne Frank shared a longing for peace, and both have had a great impact on the world through their special examples and life philosophies. White rosary beads and…
2009 Saphire Bird
Hot sculpted, encased flameworked glass, exterior painting and cutting, sandblasted, applied gemstones 7 inches tall I love birds; they are such expressive creatures. I raised caged birds as a child and enjoy observing birds at my outdoor feeders. My glass birds are abstracted creatures unlike anything in nature. They are birds from my imagination, embodying the spirit…