Homepage photo: Deborah Czeresko at work on one of her hand-blown glass creations at UrbanGlass in Brooklyn. In 1983, Czeresko graduated from Rutgers University and graduated from Tulane University in 1992. If you want to learn more about Deborah Czeresko, visit her website or follow her on Instagram. Deborah Czeresko (born July 27, 1961) is an American glass blower known for winning the first season of the Netflix series, Blown Away. Reflecting upon the entrenched structures and traditionally patriarchal gatekeepers in the art world at large, and in her niche in particular, she says, “I want my presence and voice to help change the historical paradigm of power within the field of glassblowing.” “It will go inside a public school in the Bronx,” she says of her design. Blown Away can serve as a way to educate more people about the process of glass art on a larger scale. “I love this way of looking at work.”Ĭurrently, Czeresko is applying her distinct perspective to a project for Percent for Art, a city-funded program that commissions large-scale public art installations. The grand prize is 60,000 and a residency at the Corning Museum in New York.
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“Each vase in the series has an obvious purpose but also the hidden function of spotlighting and funding environmental causes,” Czeresko says. In Blown Away, we get to watch as 10 of the best glass artists in North America perfect their craft of sculpture and glassblowing and wow the host, artist-in-resident judge, guest panelist as well as, well, us over the course of 10 themed challenges. The collection, called Phila Terra, spans 100 one-of-a-kind vessels in hues ranging from deep orange to seafoam green and aqua blue, with proceeds going to the Environmental Defense Fund and the Rainforest Foundation US. Last month, she teamed up with New York design gallery Colony to fabricate a limited-edition line of vases designed by Jean Lin. Selections from Colony’s Phila Terra collection fabricated by Deborah Czeresko Courtesy of Colony I’m feeling the love from the fans, and it feels amazing.” Wherever I go, there is a community of people that I continually connect with. “On top of that, I’ve been recognized thousands of times on the street.
“It really flexed my creative muscle and showed me that everything I make has a unifying thread,” she says of the series. “My designs and art interpret realistic objects in glass and activate the layers of meaning behind those things.”Īfter decades dedicated to steadily developing her craft, Czeresko entered the zeitgeist in 2019 when she won the first season of Netflix’s cult favorite reality competition show Blown Away.
“The foundation of my creative process is finding connections between the physicality of glassmaking and the androgyny of my personal experience,” she says. Czeresko with a hand-blown glass turkey of her design ECindySteinįorm reigns supreme for Czeresko, who relies on realistic shapes to challenge gender stereotypes, especially within the field of glassmaking.
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