Debora Moore

Art Brokerage: Debora Moore American Glass Artist: Debora Moore has studied at both the Pratt Fine Arts Center in Seattle, and the Pilchuck Glass School. She has instructed at Pilchuck, Pratt, and Tacoma's Hilltop Artist in Residence Program. In 1998, she was accepted as a member in the African American Desgn Archive at the Cooper Hewitt National Design Museum, Smithsonian Institution in New York. Her work was also included in the prestigious "Artistry of Orchids" exhibition held in 2000 at the Smithsonian Institution in Washington, DC. IN 2005, Debora was an Artist in Residence at the Tacoma Museum of Glass, Tacoma, WA. , and at Abate Zanetti in Murano, Italy. Debora Moore was also recently awarded the prestigious Rakow Commission with inclusioon in the permanent collection of the Corning Musem of Glass. Debora Moore's glass orchids are hand-blown, unique pieces. Always intrigued by nature, the artist found her voice in glass by creating graceful sculptures of flowers. She now concentrates her energy exclusively on orchids. Her earlier works are free standing plants. Her newer pieces are wall sculptures of orchid leaves from which she suspends branches filled with gossamer glass orchids of brilliant palette. Moore creates a watercolor for each piece and works out the palette for her orchid flowers on paper first. She then blows the flowers and leaves, taking her cue from nature, but heightening the color with artistic license. While capturing the fragility of the flower in glass, Moore's blooms are a powerful homage to nature's infinite possibilities. Listings wanted by Art Brokerage.