Rik Allen Show : Final Frontier Design

Rik Allen October 3 – 18, 2014

Final Frontier Design Much like space exploration, each show of new artwork by Rik Allen is a highly anticipated exercise in the ongoing discovery of the limits to our own imagination. Allen is an incredible visionary, who sees possibilities where others do not. As technology assists our physical examination of the universe, so too, does technology assist Allen in pushing the limitations inherent to working with glass as a medium. Drawings and schematics for rockets, spaceships, helmets, and newfangled robotic shapes are worked out on paper first, a habit that Allen developed as a young boy. He transfers those ideas to sculpting in hot glass, and by doing so, he harnesses the power to deploy all of our dreams. These are artworks specifically designed and engineered to optimize a potential out-of-this-world experience—all from the comfort of earth’s gravity.

Andromeda, Blown glass, steel, and silver 24" h x 11" w x 11" d $21,000

Vergil, blown glass and silver, 14" h x 13" w x 13" d, $10,000

Helio Centauri, Deep-sky Maelstrom Apparatus Blown glass, silver, and steel 28" h x 31" w x 11" d $18,000

TOE Elexious, 16" h x 13" w x 10" d, blown glass, and silver, $5,000

Turing Exterra, blown glass and stainless steel, 34" h x 26" w x 16" d, $16,000

Bollicine Relativity, blown glass, silver, and steel, 23" h x 15" w x 15" d, $20,000

Oculamera Coppolus Blown glass and silver 18.5" h x 13.5" w x 11" d, $6,800

Soliday Surveyor, blown glass, silver, and steel, 12" h x 8" w x 8" d, $4,800

Tonkon Tannker, blown glass, silver, and steel, 15" h x 19.5" w x 13" d, $7,800

Titan Odessious, blown glass and silver, 25" h x 27" w x 12" d, $16,000

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