"The Big Bang" by Karen Ami

Item Number: 114
Time Left: CLOSED
Value: $2,500
Online Close: May 13, 2006 6:00 PM EDT
Bid History: 0 bids - Item Sold!
Description
Artist Karen Ami says she creates art to illustrate her perception of life, using color, texture, and light. Like her other well-known mosaics, this breathtaking piece is constructed from a combination of Italian and Mexican glass tiles (specifically smalti), stained and metallic art glasses, and hand sculpted, glazed ceramic tile.
Special Instructions
Karen Ami received her BFA from Tufts University, her MFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, and studied mosaics at Scuolo Orsoni in Venice, Italy. Currently, Ami teaches mosaic courses in Chicago at the Chicago Mosaic School and gives workshops and lectures throughout the United States.