2021
Barnard College, New York, NY

Weecha is inspired by my thesis advisor, the renowned geologist Maria Luisa “Weecha” Crawford. Crawford was a pioneer for women in STEM. Weecha is currently on loan to Barnard College of Columbia University in conjunction with the recently-announced Barnard Year of Science.

The intersection of art and science of this project provides an opportunity to encourage the idea that creativity is multidisciplinary. Artists and scientists use the creative part of the mind to discover new ways to advance human achievements and communication. Both disciplines are based on building upon past data or ideas that are punctuated with leaps of inspiration. I want to inspire students to think about why humans are driven to discover new ideas, and why art is important to feed the soul as much as education expands the mind and exercise strengthens the body.

2019
Asheville Art Museum
Asheville, NC

Reflections on Unity is an orb, Richardson’s iconic form, created out of layered circles of reconstructed, fractured glass. Each ring of bonded, shattered glass was mathematically calculated to correspond to a correct circumference for each layer, the sum of which forms this 5,000 lb, six foot diameter, hollow crystalline sphere. Reflections on Unity, composed of thousands of pieces of bonded glass, represents the hope that our collective acts of grace will ultimately, like these shattered fragments, contribute to a better world: a sparkling, crystalline whole.

2004
Elmwood Park, Danbury, CT
Commissioning agency: City of Danbury

This monument to the 152 Connecticut victims of the 9/11 terrorist attacks was conceived as a twelve foot hollow glass tower. The chiseled void, with the same aspect ratio as the World Trade Center towers, is reminiscent of the towers that no longer stand. The names of the victims are etched into a glass panel that rises through the void.  The monument was dedicated on September 11, 2004.

2010
First Miami Biennale

My breakthrough monumental sculpture was a six foot diameter chiseled glass orb called Healing the World (Tikkun). The orb has become my iconic form. Each layered circle of bonded glass is mathematically calculated to correspond to a correct circumference for each layer, the sum of which forms a hollow crystalline sphere. The inspiration for Tikkun comes from my belief that societies which inspire and welcome individual acts of grace become more considerate, more kind, more tolerant, and more open. Physically, the work is a composition of thousands of fractured pieces of glass bonded together. It glows from within, possessing its own inner light. Tikkun, meaning “repairing the world,” represents the concept of putting the world back together, one shard of glass at a time.

2017
Commissioning agency: Seven Bridges Foundation, Greenwich, CT

Seven Bridges, with a mission to support living artists, encompasses three museums within an eighty acre sculpture park in Greenwich, CT. The collection focuses on realist painting and a large collection of glass.

2018
Client: Anguili Group

Installation at a new public plaza in Staten Island, New York.