LewAllen Galleries is pleased to announce the largest exhibition of world-class contemporary glass artworks in its nearly four decades of representing this category of important art. 

The exhibition includes more than 60 pieces by 24 internationally recognized glass artists, and features significant artworks from the museum-quality collection of Dr. Arnold and Doris Roland, as well as important glass works by other of LewAllen’s esteemed glass artists, several of whom are also included in the Roland collection. 

The exhibition provides a broad variety of examples of glass art-making techniques such as blown, cast, fused, cut, carved, borosilicate, and slumped glass. The artists featured in the exhibition include Luigi Benzoni, Alex Bernstein, Latchezar Boyadjiev, Peter Bremers, Jaroslava Brychtová & Stanislav Libenský, Emma Camden, Matthew Curtis, William Glasner, John Kiley, Steve Klein, Lucy Lyon, Jaroslav Matouš, Charles Miner, Greg Owen, Brian Russell, Raquel Stolarski-Assael, Daniela Turrin, Veruska Vagen, Carmen Vetter, Petr Vlček, Eva Vlckova, Hiroshi Yamano, and Brent Kee Young. 

Art collectors Arnold and Doris Roland began collecting glass art in the early 1990s. Major art patrons, with homes in California, Arizona, and New Mexico, the Rolands began acquiring works from important glass artists, schools, and studios, first in the Pacific Northwest, then expanding nationally, as well as internationally. They share their passion for studio art glass and are regular contributors to museum glass exhibitions, including a recent show at the New Mexico Museum of Art, The Nature of Glass. 

A variety of glass art techniques and forms are represented in Glassen Wonders. Works range from representational, figurative sculptures to undulating, fluid structures to architectural forms. Many of the works show how glass has the magnificent ability to radiate and transform light and explores the expressive possibilities of the form. 

LewAllen Galleries champions glass art and the diversity of the form, as artists around the world work with this material in varied, incredible ways. The gallery brings attention not only to the materiality of the work, but also to the intellectual, conceptional, and expressive meanings the artform imparts uniquely and elegantly.