Description

Pill Bottle by Alexander Rosenberg. Oversized blown glass bottle with lid and 4 pills. The bottle measures approximately 14″ h x 8″ w x 8″ d. A similar Pill Bottle design was seen in the Pop Art Episode(6) the Nextflix “Blown Away” Series.

About the Artist

Alexander Rosenberg is an artist, educator and writer based in Philadelphia. He received a Master of Science in Visual Studies from MIT and a BFA in glass from Rhode Island School of Design. His artistic practice is rooted in the study of glass as a material, in conjunction with broad interdisciplinary investigation crossing over into many other media and research areas.

Alexander pursues his practice with artist residencies, teaching, performances and exhibitions locally and internationally. He is the recipient of the 2012 International Glass Prize, an Awesome Foundation Grant (2019), The Sheldon Levin Memorial Residency at the Tacoma Museum of Glass, A Windgate Fellowship at the Vermont Studio Center, The Esther & Harvey Graitzer Memorial Prize, UArts FADF Grant, and the deFlores Humor Fund Grant (MIT).

He has attended artist residencies at RAIR, The MacDowell Colony, Wheaton Arts, Urban Glass, Vermont Studio Center, StarWorks, Pilchuck Glass School, GlazenHuis in Belgium, Rochester Institute of Technology, Radical Heart (Detroit), and Worcester Craft Center. His writing has been published in Glass Quarterly Magazine, The Glass Art Society Journal, and the Art Blog. He was a founding member of Hyperopia Projects (2010 – 2018), headed the glass program at University of the Arts (2010 – 2017), and was an artist member of Vox Populi gallery (2012 – 2015). He was cast on the Netflix Series, Blown Away in 2018 and he currently teaches at Salem Community College. Presently, Alex is the Glass Studio Director at WheatonArts and Cultural Center.

Photo Credit: Jeff DiMarco

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