KAREN GILBERT

Karen's work has been acquired by the Tacoma Art Museum for its permanent collection, and is featured in the current travelling exhibition GlassWear at the Museum of Art and Design in New York City, the Schmuckmuseum in Pforzheim, Germany and the Toledo Museum of Art.

" I see my work from two sides. One is the exploration of materials: the other is the content of my ideas.

The functional forms in nature and science, put together, are those we find familiar. I see these most primal forms as road maps for everything we think and feel. The smallest can be a visual representation of the larger complexity. What is underneath the surface is what I choose to explore.

I try to question ideas about where beauty and comfort are found. The objects that I make are my expressions of a new narrative."