New Visions: Jen Blazina, Amber Cowan, Stacey Lee Webber, & Joanna Manousis

New Visions is an exhibition of dynamic sculptural works in glass, metal, and mixed media by Philadelphia artists Jen Blazina, Amber Cowan, Joanna Manousis, and Stacey Lee Webber.

Jen Blazina creates mixed-media objects and installations, incorporating materials such as cast glass, steel, resin, fabric, and ink to reflect on her own personal history and childhood memories.

Sculptor Amber Cowan works with recycled materials, typically American pressed glass from the 1940s to the 1980s. Using techniques such as flame-working, blowing, and hot-sculpting, Cowan creates beautifully detailed and complex sculptures that refer to patterns of growth found in nature.

Stacey Lee Webber is best known for her sculptural work made from altered discarded or rarely used currency. Taking the form of traditional tools such as hammers, screwdrivers, and saws, the artist’s Craftsmen Series is celebration of the history of American blue-collar labor.

British-born artist and designer Joanna Manousis creates narrative works in glass and mixed media that speak of human emotion, memory and the passage of time. Much of her work is reflective, both physically and symbolically. Her newest body of work, which incorporates taxidermy elements, explores the relationship between what is reality and what is mimicry.