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ARTIST BIO I am a native of Severna Park, a city located 10 miles north of the Maryland capital, Annapolis. Growing up in the Chesapeake Bay region and in close proximity to the ocean has lead nature to be a dominant influence of my work. When I first became involved with art, landscape oil paintings were the primary outlet of my creativity during high school. Salisbury University on the Eastern Shore of Maryland was where I spent time for higher education and graduated with a Bachelor of Science and minor in Art. The art department at Salisbury offered a unique opportunity to students by housing a glass studio on campus. This place let students experiment with an amazing medium, hot glass, which I discovered my senior year. I have always been attracted to water since I was a kid. Moving to an area located closer to the ocean than home, I found my free time outside of classes spent at the ocean. Here, the motion of the waves helped me relax creating a soothing effect on my soul and my artistic energy was inspired by the natural occurrence of waves. I was able to bring that feeling back with me to campus and express it through my paintings and glass. |
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We sense and perceive our world mostly through waves such as light and sound, but these are not tangible waves. At the ocean, I feel that water waves are really at scale with the body and one can interact and ride them in a way that creates a different experience from the light and sound waves humans perceive. One can be humbled by the power of ocean waves and interrelating with these waves, I feel brings about a further understanding of how the world around us works. In conjunction ocean waves, the glory hole in the glass studio is also a place where I feel humbled because of the extreme temperatures and potential of danger that is omnipresent when working in the glass shop. |
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I learned the beginning process of glass blowing by gathering melted liquid glass onto a blowpipe. While working with glass, it demonstrated many of the properties of a liquid when hot and solidifying as it cools. When I go into the glass studio, I bring the mindset of my existence and the ocean, and am able to apply that notion of wave and water to glass. The process of melting glass and working it from a liquid into a solid makes me express my creative intuition through a concrete form to the world. I feel that a sense of honesty with the surrounding world is achieved when working with glass when using the physics of glass, heat, fire, and pressures to create a finalized form. For any furthur information or questions feel free to send an email to me at: andrew@andrewhicksart.com |
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