ABOUT THE ARTISTS

MICHAEL ASCHENBRENNER received his MFA from the University of Minnesota, in 1978, and subsequently moved then, to New York City – where he lived for the next 15-years. Michael participated at the forefront of the Studio Glass Movement, working at the New York Experimental Glass Workshop (now UrbanGlass, in Brooklyn). His work is heavily influenced by the time that he spent serving in the Vietnam War. The majority of Michael’s work, explores his experiences there, including the “Damaged Bone”, “Implement”, “Portrait” and “Amphora” series. Michael Aschenbrenner has exhibited both nationally and internationally; and his work is included in the permanent collections of numerous museums, both in the United States and abroad. A group of objects, from his “Damaged Bone” series, is presently installed in the Metropolitan Museum Of Art, in NYC; a portion of their permanent collection. Michael currently explores clay, as the medium with which to investigate his creative concerns. 
JENNIFER CRESCUILLO is an internationally exhibited artist, currently residing and working in Silver Point, Tennessee. Jennifer received her Master of Fine Art degree from the Southern Illinois University Carbondale, and has taught professionally at various institutions including the Pilchuck Glass School, the Studio of the Corning Museum of Glass and UrbanGlass. Her work has been included in the Corning Museum’s New Glass Reviews 34, 36 and 38. Jennifer Crescuillo has been both, a Wheaton Arts Fellow and an Emerging Artist in Residence, at the Pilchuck Glass school. In addition to raising a family, Jennifer operates her High Polish Studio – a business specializing in custom glass fabrication and cold working services. 

The artist duo Lemaire and Touron works on the concepts of time, humanity, and nature. Their work exists in the past and future at the same time, and is concurrently of flora, fauna, and technology.  Nicolas Touron is a storyteller, and like a gifted one of the oral tradition, he enhances and embellishes his tales each time they’re told. As an artist he creates engaging and complex work in both Ceramic and Painting that, through concepts of movement, evolution, characters, and motifs, suggest larger narratives. Departing from traditional approaches, Touron’s stories never have specific beginnings or ending, and in this way become visual embodiments of the living process of storytelling. Touron's work has been featured prominently in the USA as well as internationally in art galleries, museums and public spaces. His work is in numerous private collections around the world. Amy Lemaire is a multi-disciplinary artist and educator based in Brooklyn, NY. An explorer at heart, her work reveals an interest in currency systems, material language poetics and the production of histories. As an artist, Lemaire works with glass, photography and digital fabrication to create an array of tools, artifacts and objects that consider the role of technology as an accelerant in a multiplicity of narratives that weave together virtual and physical worlds. Amy Lemaire’s work has been included in exhibitions nationally, and is in many private and museum collections.