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Sally Resnik Rockriver

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Echoing the birth of planets and capturing the life inside them, Sally Resnik Rockriver generates chemical reactions in blown glass and ceramics. While she is making her blown glass, Rockriver uses ceramic glazes and glass rocks to grow geolocial worlds on the interior of the hot glass vessel. These moments of chemical reaction become imaginary planets and frozen thermal formations.

Sally Resnik Rockriver has redefined the aesthetic parameters of her medium by allowing geological laws to determine the content of her work. Rockriver arrives at a new form that she refers to as Geochemical Sculpture, in which compositions become planetary formations. She creates a narrative landscape by combining her multiple approaches: glass columns with a crystalline core, calcite cave formations, crystal glazed slabs, salt-blown spheres, ceramic blown glass vessels, and sandcast rocks. Exploring Ms. Rockriver’s works is like visiting another world where new geological formations are revealed. We can enter the high temperature moment at which these phenomena were created and marvel at the explosive interior of a crystalline birth.

Original Works
Love's Reef
glass with ceramic glazes
6 x 5 x 5 inches
SOLD
Love's Burst
glass with ceramic glazes
8 x 5 x 6 inches
SOLD
Crushed Fire Cave
glass with ceramic glazes
6 x 11 x 7 inches
Alpine Crater
glass with ceramic glazes
5 x 5 x 4 inches
Glacial Castle
glass with ceramic glazes
5 x 4 x 4 inches
Opal's Anemone
glass with ceramic glazes
6 x 5 x 5 inches
Opening the Fire
glass with ceramic glazes
7 x 9 x 5 inches
Honey's Bloom
glass with ceramic glazes
6 x 11 x 9 inches

Arctic Spring's Pool
glass with ceramic glazes
5 x 8 x 6 inches

SOLD

         

 

 

Center of a Planet
glass with ceramic glazes
13 x 13 x 13 inches

 

Birth of the Melt
glass with ceramic glazes
14 x 16 x 12 inches

 

Birth of a Planet
glass with ceramic glazes
9 x 13 x 14 inches

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Thermal Storm
glass with ceramic glazes
12 x 28 x 12 inches

 

Arctic Crater
glass with ceramic glazes
6 x 8 x 5 inches

 

Waiting Anemone
glass with ceramic glazes
7 x 5 x 5 inches

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Glacial Planet
glass with ceramic glazes
18 x 24 x 24 inches

 

Geode's Birthplace
glass with ceramic glazes
12 x 18 x 10 inches

 

Birth of a Planet
glass with ceramic glazes
9 x 13 x 14 inches

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Frosted Fire
glass with ceramic glazes
8 x 7 x 7 inches

 

Jewel Mantel
glass with ceramic glazes
12 x 40 x 10 inches

 

Golden Slipper
glass with ceramic glazes
3 x 5 x 4 inches

         

 

 

Gold Water
glass with ceramic glazes
9 x 8 x 9 inches

 

Candy Cave
glass with ceramic glazes
6 x 7 x 6 inches

 

Water Cave
glass with ceramic glazes
6 x 7 x 6 inches SOLD

         

 

 

Electric Reef
glass with ceramic glazes
6 x 5 x 5 inches SOLD

 

Pluto's Castle
glass with ceramic glazes
10 x 6 x 6 inches

 

Starfish's Planet
glass with ceramic glazes
7 x 16 x 16 inches

         

 

 

Pink Thaw
glass with ceramic glazes
7 x 7 x 7 inches

 

Urchin's Cave
glass with ceramic glazes
6 x 6 x 6 inches

 

Cave Egg
glass with ceramic glazes
5 x 5 x 6 inches

         

 

 

Pluto's Seabiscuit
glass with ceramic glazes
6 x 9 x 9 inches

 

Slipper's Frost
glass with ceramic glazes
6 x 9 x 5 inches

 

Copper Geode
glass with ceramic glazes
5 x 4 x 4 inches

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Glacial Excavation
glass with ceramic glazes
30 x 20 x 26 inches

 

Planetary Reef
glass with ceramic glazes
15 x 40 x 26 inches

 

Jewel Volcanoes
glass with ceramic glazes
15 x 30 x 15 inches

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Trapped
glass with ceramic glazes
6 x 3 inches, 2004

 

Geocore
glass with ceramic glazes
5 x 3 x 3 inches

 

Glacial Wind
glass with ceramic glazes
7 x 3 inches

 
 
Geocore's Return
glass with ceramic glazes
11 x 4, 2006
 
Aqua Mountain
glass with ceramic glazes
10 x 4 inches, 2004
 


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