{"id":1814,"date":"2012-11-07T09:50:53","date_gmt":"2012-11-07T17:50:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.californiastudioglass.org\/?p=1814"},"modified":"2012-11-07T09:56:33","modified_gmt":"2012-11-07T17:56:33","slug":"mitch-laplante","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.californiastudioglass.org\/?p=1814","title":{"rendered":"Mitch LaPlante"},"content":{"rendered":"

Started working in glass in 1998 at Public Glass in San Francisco.
\n<\/strong>www.mitchlaplante.com<\/a><\/p>\n

I have been creating large scale natural fruit and vegetable forms in glass for more than a\u00a0decade. I choose to make naturally inspired forms that I think are visually interesting and that I enjoy making in the glass studio. My works include Rainier and Bing cherries; chile, jalape\u00f1o and bell peppers; pear and round tomatoes; Gravenstein, Gala, and Delicious apples; pluots and plums; Forelle and Bosc pears; and Black Mission figs. Cherries\u2014the Rainier Cherry<\/em> and Bing Cherry <\/em>pieces\u2014have been my most popular works. Most of my objects involve stems and bodies. My process involves making blown stems separately that are joined hot to a bubble after it is inflated. I sometimes employ several steps of color application to achieve more painterly effects, such as the D\u2019Anjou Pear<\/em>. I have also made some larger installations, the largest of which is the Harvest Grape Cluster<\/em> at Copia in Napa\u2014a hanging cluster of more than 300 blown grapes measuring about 6 feet tall and almost equally wide. In an ongoing collaboration with Ed Kirshner, we have made illuminated pieces using electrified gas plasma, including, thus far, the Plasma Cherry<\/em> and the Fiery Jalape\u00f1o Pepper<\/em>.<\/p>\n

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“Red D\u2019Anjou Pear”
Mitch LaPlante
2008
Hand blown glass with hot assemblage
16 x 16 x 28″<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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