• view artists Artists
    • Jiyong Lee
    • Scott Fife
    • Ann Wåhlström
    • Dale Chihuly
    • John Kiley
    • Curtis Steiner
    • Heike Brachlow
    • Jane Rosen
    • Preston Singletary
    • Gregory Grenon
    • view all artists
  • view exhibitions Exhibitions
      • Mar 2 - Apr 1 Material Mastery | 2023
    • view all exhibitions
  • browse artwork Browse
    • painting
    • Glass
    • Paintings
    • Ceramics
    • Sculpture
    • Featured
    • Neon
    • Stone
    • Drawings
    • Prints
    • Metal
    • Mixed Media
    • Wood
    • Bamboo
    • Secondary Market
  • video Video
  • the gallery The Gallery
  • view news News
    • SEArtNow
    • John Kiley and Dale Chihuly at Traver Gallery
    • Heike Brachlow | Colour Connections | Sept 2022
    • read all
Search for:
Traver Gallery

Bertil Vallien

  • Artworks
  • About
  • Media
|
JANUS III  | 21018
JANUS III | 21018, 2006
sandcast glass
9.25"h x 4.75"w x 8.75"d
$25,000
CAOTICA  | 21024
CAOTICA | 21024, 2005
sandcast glass
23"h x 34.5"w x 10"d
$33,000
MORO IV | 15089
MORO IV | 15089, 2000
sand cast glass, mixed media
14.2"h x 5"w
$10,000
MORO I | 15088
MORO I | 15088, 2000
sand cast glass, mixed media
14.4"h x 5.2"w
$10,000
SOMNA II | 15087
SOMNA II | 15087, 2000
sand cast glass, mixed media
14.4"h x 5.2"w
$10,000
ENVELOPE | 15098
ENVELOPE | 15098, 2000
sand cast glass, mixed media
13.8"h x 4.8"w
$10,000
CORRIDOR | 15090
CORRIDOR | 15090, 2000
sand cast glass, mixed media
14"h x 4.8"w
$10,000
SOMNA III | 15091
SOMNA III | 15091, 2000
sand cast glass, mixed media
14.4"h x 5.2"w
$10,000
VAKNA | 15092
VAKNA | 15092, 2000
sand cast glass, mixed media
14.2"h x 5.7"w
$10,000
SOMNA IV | 15094
SOMNA IV | 15094, 2000
sand cast glass, mixed media
14.4"h x 5.7"w
$10,000
1/10
  • JANUS III | 21018, 2006
    sandcast glass
    9.25"h x 4.75"w x 8.75"d
    $25,000
  • CAOTICA | 21024, 2005
    sandcast glass
    23"h x 34.5"w x 10"d
    $33,000
  • MORO IV | 15089, 2000
    sand cast glass, mixed media
    14.2"h x 5"w
    $10,000
  • MORO I | 15088, 2000
    sand cast glass, mixed media
    14.4"h x 5.2"w
    $10,000
  • SOMNA II | 15087, 2000
    sand cast glass, mixed media
    14.4"h x 5.2"w
    $10,000
  • ENVELOPE | 15098, 2000
    sand cast glass, mixed media
    13.8"h x 4.8"w
    $10,000
  • CORRIDOR | 15090, 2000
    sand cast glass, mixed media
    14"h x 4.8"w
    $10,000
  • SOMNA III | 15091, 2000
    sand cast glass, mixed media
    14.4"h x 5.2"w
    $10,000
  • VAKNA | 15092, 2000
    sand cast glass, mixed media
    14.2"h x 5.7"w
    $10,000
  • SOMNA IV | 15094, 2000
    sand cast glass, mixed media
    14.4"h x 5.7"w
    $10,000
BV

About
Bertil Vallien

Swedish glass master Bertil Vallien was born in 1938 in a suburb north of Stockholm, where he felt the inclination to be an artist from a very early age. He studied ceramics at the Konstfack School of Arts, Crafts, and Design in Stockholm, then spent two years at the School for Advanced Industrial Design. At Konstfack, he graduated at the top of his class and was awarded a Royal Foundation grant. His love of ceramics took him the Los Angeles for a position with HAL Fromholt Ceramics, and soon he was meeting artists, critics, and gallery owners, attending events at California universities, and exhibiting his ceramics. In 1963, he was invited back to Sweden by the C.H. Åfors glass-factory, where he contributed to a successful reorganization of the company and designed many of their most well-known lines.

Vallien’s introduction to glass offered artistic opportunities that were lacking in ceramics, and blowing glass became central to his work. He has described it as: “ladling matter out of a volcano and watching the glowing lava turn into ice. Knowing the exact moment at which to capture a shift of light or expression and wrench the secret from the glass is what it’s all about.” Vallien combines his creative and industrial training as the foremost artist working in sand-casted glass, an innovative approach to this very classical medium. His work has a symbolic and mystical narrative, in which the human head, boats, maps, stars, crosses, bridges, pyramids, and rings play recurring roles. Sometimes the light-absorbing glass is transparent like a membrane that allows vision into the spaces within. At other times it is translucent to represent how our understanding can at times be clouded. Each Vallien piece tells a unique story.

As Sweden’s most innovative and well-known contemporary glass artist, Vallien has exhibited around the world from California to Israel. His work is in numerous public collections, including: The State Hermitage Museum (St. Petersburg, Russia); the National Museum (Stockholm, Sweden); the Victoria and Albert Museum (London, England); the Art Institute of Chicago (IL); the National Museum of Modern Art (Kyoto, Japan); the Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, NY); the Powerhouse Museum (Sydney, Australia); and the Museum of Fine Arts (Boston, MA). He has received numerous awards, including Prince Eugen’s medal for Outstanding Achievement in the Arts (1995); an Honorary Doctorate from the University of Vaxjö (2002); the Gold Medal from the Royal Academy of Science, Stockholm (2005); and the Libenski Award, Seattle (2008).

Media

Media

RESUME
BIO & ARTIST STATEMENT
Traver Gallery

Traver Gallery
←

Anne Traver

next artist
full artist listing
→

Kathy Venter

next artist
keep in touch
  • Artists
  • Exhibitions
  • Browse
  • Video
  • The Gallery
  • News
  • Secondary Market
  • facebook
  • instagram
  • twitter
Legal Terms of Use
Vetri Glass Studio

    inquiring: