Gravers Lane Gallery

Yvonne Pacanovsky Bobrowicz (born 1928) says her fiber work comes from the hand, referring to her childhood and artistic career. Her mother was an avid embroiderer and her father a master carver and instructor of fine woodworking. Bobrowicz studied with two of the most important and forward-thinking artists in her field: Marianne Strengell (19091998) at Cranbrook Academy of Art in Michigan, and Anni Albers (18991994) at the Philadelphia Museum School of Art. Nationally re...cognized for her contributions to the field of fiber art, Bobrowicz has been awarded commissions from Louis Kahn, the iconic architect, for the Kimball Museum in Texas, as well as from big corporate collections such as RCA and DuPont. In 1996 she received the Pew Fellowship in the Arts and in 1997 the Leeway Foundation’s Bessie Berman Award. Bobrowicz has also inspired future generations as professor of textiles and weavings at Philadelphia’s Drexel University from 1966 until she retired in 1997. Bobrowicz feels the constant motion, change, and growth in the universe. She integrates these sensations into her sculptural, fiber-based works. By blending natural materials with synthetic materials, Bobrowicz plays with the idea of opposites such as dark versus light and order versus randomness. She uses clear monofilament because she feels strongly that It is a fiber of our age, reflecting it in so many ways. It illuminates, vibrates, pulsates, expressing motion, a translucent, celestial energy field. . . . Yvonne Pacanovsky Bobrowicz "Cosmic Series" Knotted monofilament, linen, gold leaf 54"x 62 x18"

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Doug Herren is a Philadelphia based sculptor working in clay. He came to the medium organically. First studying at Wichita State University (BFA) and then Louisiana State University (MFA) earning degrees in ceramics, Doug was captivated by the technical nuances of wheel throwing and began making functional ceramics. After school, he attended the acclaimed Archie Bray Foundation in Montana and The Clay Studio in Philadelphia. Both residences were influential in developing his ...remarkable, hybrid sculptural vessels and stands. His recent body of work is bold, non-apologetic monuments to classical forms and functional objects. His tables, amphora urns, stirrup pots, and elaborate architectural vases are assembled wheel-thrown and slab-built stoneware components coated with layers of oil-based enamel paints. The saturated vivid colors, often subtly bleeding through from lower layers, accentuate and soften the edges of the architectural ceramic forms. Doug's keen understanding of color saturation animates the massive stone-like forms. With an architect's eye, he is able to optically flatting a shape in space, pushing another forward, suspending one plane which resists the pull of another. Doug's monolithic structures are at a glance imposing, yet after careful examination, they reveal dynamic elements of stability. Take a virtual tour via our new 3D platform! https://my.matterport.com/show/?m=mPcYWQUJ8Ae

Leslie Grigsby, formerly of Chester County, Pennsylvania resides in Wilmington Delaware. She creates detailed sculptures using glass seed beads and thread. Her works are inspired by science fact and fiction, art history and nature. They are included in private and institutional collections in the U.S., Canada and Australia and have been exhibited in Canada and Africa. Enjoy more of Leslie's work including Tigger, Just Beneath the Surface (sea turtle), Life Desaturated (squir...rel), and I’m all ears! (margay) at Gravers Lane Gallery. . . . "Over the Moon" and "Under the Sun" Glass seed beads in peyote stitch over dense foam core. 9" diameter See more

Cynthia Miller is a metal and glass artist residing in Tucson, Arizona. She received her BFA from the University of Illinois, and studied copper enameling with Richard Loving at the Art Institute of Chicago. An MBA from Northwestern University completed her formal arts education. Miller layers glass enamel over burnished copper sheets to create her work. Powdered glass melts and flows onto the copper, forming as many as ten layers over subsequent firing sequences. Sometimes, ...jewels (glass lumps) are added, resulting in brilliant luminous colors that are impervious to heat, cold, and moisture. I have always been fascinated with brilliant, jewel-like color. Vitreous enamel glass, kiln fused onto copper panels, captures and celebrates light and color like no other medium I know. I delight in exploring the scintillating array of hues and luminosity: each shift in light reveals another variation. I celebrate the wonders of the natural world: the colors, the seasons, how light plays on a leaf or a wave or emanates from a celestial nebula. I hope that my compositions will delight your senses and stimulate your imagination. -Cynthia Miller-