GREG FIDLER

ARTIST STATEMENT
The familiar essence of glass is derived from a manufactured utilitarian need. Processes in hand forming glass undermine these attributes and in effect give my work purpose.

It is my desire to produce sculpture that communicates progression while paying respect to traditional processes and their survival in the present. My ideas owe more to natural forms and my deference for the material than to consciousness obscurity.

ARTIST BIO
Greg was born in 1970 and raised in the Catawba Valley of North Carolina. He received a Bachelor of Science in Cultural Anthropology from Franklin Pierce College in 1993.

Greg has worked with numerous glass artists from Maine to Seattle, while attending classes at the Penland School of Crafts, Pilchuck Glass School, and Haystack School of Crafts. He graduated from The University of Illinois MFA Sculpture program in 2001 and is currently an Artist in Residence at Penland School of Crafts, Penland, NC.

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