Marianne Weil

"Through my investigation of two opposing and visceral substances, I build on past traditions to experiment with techniques that provoke and challenge unpredictable outcomes.  My practice is motivated by the opposing strength and fragility of each material - revealed both concretely and in its own metaphorical transformation.

Having worked in bronze for many years, one of the hardest materials an artist may employ, I recently embraced one of the most delicate, glass.  Thanks to a fortuitous miscalculation in my studio several years ago, I combined molten glass with a previously cast bronze sculpture.  The surprising, yet satisfying results encouraged a subsequent new path for my work, one that now incorporates two ancient techniques - lost-wax and sand-cast processes - in combination with a range of non-ferrous metal."  Marianne Weil

Weil, a recognized master of the sculptural media, has a distinguished history of exhibitions as well as teaching (she is now a professor of sculpture and the studio art coordinator at CUNY/College of Staten Island). The long list of honors, residencies, and exhibitions presents an enviable international itinerary, from a MaDowall fellowship to stops in Russia, Spain, Portugal, Denmark, Switzerland, Scotland, and Ireland. Her public commissions include important projects in Water Mill and Greenport on the East End of Long Island. - Charles A. Riley II, PhD

Veil
Cast bronze with cast clear glass and copper mesh
11 x 5 x 3 in
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$3,500
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Open Mind
Cast bronze with cast green glass
10 x 10 x 5 in
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$5,500
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Skerry
Cast bronze with cast green glass on welded steel stand
8 x 8 x 3 in
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$3,000
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Sargasso
Cast bronze with cast clear glass on welded steel stand
12 x 4 x 10 in
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$4,200
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Grotto
Cast bronze and emerald green cast glass
9 x 6 x 3 in 
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$3,500
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Mesa
Cast blue glass with copper
4 x 6 x 6 in
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$2,800
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Bud
Cast bronze with cast blue glass with copper
6 x 5 x 4 in 
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$3,000
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Ori
Blown and compressed amber glass with copper inclusions
14 x 10 x 9 in
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$5,500
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