Lisa & Cecil McKenzie
Emporia, Kansas
Lisa and Cecil work as a team in concert with their chosen material, glass. Their work unites simple, classic forms and clean lines with surface treatments. That include textures and vibrant colors. The surfaces of their pieces are essentially light paintings, reminiscent of color field painting in the 1970's.
They use ancient and traditional glassblowing techniques dating back to the Romans, yet their style is contemporary because of the wide pallette of color generated with colored frit, all within a single furnace melting clear glass.