“My optics serve as the window into my coloration process; into the 'soul' of a piece, allowing the viewer to peer into its interior life, like the rings of a tree. All of my pieces are intellectually created on that notion, that with each finished work a history is revealed.” - Randi Solin
Randi Solin uses glass like a contemporary abstract expressionist painter, dazzling collectors and colleagues alike with her exceptional technique, skill, and highly inventive coloration style. The recipient of many Best in Show, Best of Glass, and, most recently, a Lifetime Achievement award, her work has been acquired by the permanent collections of The White House, The United States Embassies in Algeria, Guinea, Cape Verde, Paraguay, Guatemala, Benin, and many museums and galleries nationwide.
Incorporating techniques found in both Venetian glassblowing and the American Art Glass Movement, Solin's coloration process is complex and varied, using layer upon layer of glass in all particle sizes, and often incorporating sheets of fine silver foil, or a hand "drawing" in black glass cane.
Solin earned a B.F.A. from the New York College of Ceramics at Alfred University, New York, and established her first glass studio in Northern California 1995. She has worked in Southern Vermont since 1998. Solin creates her signature glass artwork in her studio at Fire Arts Vermont, located on the West River in Brattleboro, Vermont.
