"There's something vaguely miraculous that some of the finest work in contemporary color in any medium is being wrought right now by Stephen Rolfe Powell at Centre College in Danville, Kentucky. There's no reason why that shouldn't be true, of course; Paris and New York and Tokyo and Chicago have no patent on artistic creativity. Colorists, it has been observed, are born, not made, and their pursuit of subtlety and beauty, their search for that special kind of optical exhilaration that begins where language ends and taste begins, can happen anywhere. Our role is to appreciate that it is happening at all, that something quickens the attention of an artist like Stephen Rolfe Powell, making him lay out endless rows of murrini, manipulate molten glass, and twirl and coax it into form, creating sumptuous vortices of tone and color that astound and delight, and that celebrate the infinite and affirmative pleasures of human vision."
- James Yood
from "Stephen Rolfe Powell: Glassmaker" |
Innocent Emerald Sniffer
Stephen Rolfe Powell
SOLD | Nudging Molten Puff
Stephen Rolfe Powell
$28,000 | Jitter Solar Nudge
Stephen Rolfe Powell
$28,000 | Winking Torrid Zeal
Stephen Rolfe Powell
$30,000 |
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Frenetic Bayou Pouncer
Stephen Rolfe Powell
$32,000 | Sultry Lemon Jitter
Stephen Rolfe Powell
$33,000 | Loony Aloof Striker
Stephen Rolfe Powell
$28,000 | Lurid Tickle Sniffer
Stephen Rolfe Powell
$30,000 |
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Sultry Coy Snooper
Stephen Rolfe Powell
$26,000 | Frenetic Lurid Thrust
Stephen Rolfe Powell
$28,000 | Sultry Tenacious Gaze
Stephen Rolfe Powell
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