Toots Zynsky
Acquamare Chaos

Acquamare Chaos

© Toots Zynsky

Acquamare Chaos
Acquamare Chaos
ArtistAmerican, born 1951
CultureAmerican
Titles
  • Acquamare Chaos
Date1997
PlaceUnited States
MediumGlass
Dimensions11 × 21 1/2 × 12 1/2 in. (27.9 × 54.6 × 31.8 cm)
Credit LineMuseum purchase funded by the Museum Collectors
Object number98.222
Current Location
The Nancy and Rich Kinder Building
Gallery 206
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DescriptionToots Zynsky’s glass vessels are influenced by her extensive travels to South Africa, the Far East, and South America, in them she uses vivid colors and textures that reflect the indigenous birds and textiles observed on her journeys. Zynsky achieves her extraordinary forms through a technique that is her own. Glass threads are pulled from Murano glass rods by a special machine created for her by Dutch engineer Mathijs Teunissen van Manen. The colored threads are layered on top of one another and fused with heat. Zynsky then manipulates the fused threads in a mold or stainless steel bowl to create her forms. Shapes are organic and emphasize depth and movement through the layering of both translucent and opaque colors.

Provenance[Barry Friedman, Ltd., New York]; purchased by MFAH, 1998.
Exhibition History"Contemporary Craft from the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston," Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, May 27–August 13, 2001.

"Murano: Glass from the Olnick Spanu Collection," Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, June 6–August 1, 2004.

"Patrons' Choice: The Silver Anniversary of The Museum Collectors, The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston," Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, September 18, 2004–January 30, 2005.

"Hot Glass: Cool Collections," Houston Center for Contemporary Craft, December 13, 2008–March 15, 2009.
Inscriptions, Signatures and Marks
The vase is not signed.

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