Mitchell Gaudet Green Scalloped Art Glass Shell Paperweight Palmette Tile 12"

Description

Mitchell Gaudet Born 1962) is active/lives in Louisiana. Mitchell Gaudet is known for Glass sculpture-found objects.
From New Orleans, Mitchell Gaudet creates glass-based abstract sculpture and within these works combines other materials such as pewter and steel and materials he has found at yard sales and fela markets. He does some glass blowing and is also a glass caster, one who ladles molten glass from the furnace into a mold. He likes to do work that is a bit 'funky' and 'zazzy' and that has some story-telling aspects to it.

He has an MFA from Tulane University (1990) and a BFA from Lousiana State University in Baton Rouge, 1984. A commissioned work in 2000 is at the New Orleans Airport Delta Concourse. In 1998, Gaudet received an award for his design at the Pilchuck Glass School auction.

Condition

Very Good - see pictures

Dimensions

11.5” x 8.5” x 1.5” (Width x Depth x Height)