OPENING: Jim Loewer’s Asian-influenced bowls and vases featured in museum shop exhibit

The Alternatives Museum Shop at the Delaware Center for the Contemporary Arts will feature the intense colors of Jim Loewer's glass vessels in a special exhibition debuting July 31st and running through September 25th, 2014. Based in Philadelphia, Loewer was trained as a painter, but now devotes himself to flamerworked borosilicate glass vases and bowls based on forms influenced by Japanese vesselware. He is self-taught and appreciates slight irregularities in his work which adds to their character.

Loewer holds a BFA in painting from the University of California and a degree in education from the University of South Carolina. After a brief stint as a teacher, he now works full-time making boldly chromatic designs in glass, which he sells at upscale retail venues such as Barneys New York. Though made at the torch, many of his vessels have a flowing quality that one associates with blown glass. All the work features swirls of color, and shapes that convey a great deal of character, personality clues to the maker behind them.

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[Blown glass pieces by Jim Loewer.]

Raised in Columbia, SC, artist Jim Loewer presently resides in Philadelphia where he creates his intensely colorful and organic glass pieces. He holds a degree in painting from the University of California and a degree in teaching from the University of South Carolina. Jim taught for four years before devoting himself full-time to glass. Largely self-taught through trial and error, he focuses primarily on contemporary forms influenced by Japanese craft and the American studio glass movement. Each piece is hand-blown and lamp-worked borosilicate glass. Slight imperfections highlight the individual handcrafted quality of the work, which is purposely non-uniform. These bright and beautiful pieces, full of swirling color, can add a cheerful and often functional accent to any home.