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BRONZE PRINT | 32420
BRONZE PRINT | 32420, 2020
blown glass
28"h x 13.5"w x 3.25"d
$22,000
BLACK PRINT | 32527
BLACK PRINT | 32527, 2020
glass
29.75"h x 13"w x 3"d
$22,000
BLACK AND AQUA PRINT | 32526
BLACK AND AQUA PRINT | 32526, 2020
glass
26.75"h x 13"w x 3"d
$22,000
BLUE MAZE | 32419
BLUE MAZE | 32419, 2020
blown glass
30"h x 14"w x 3.5"d
$22,000
BLUE MAZE | 32373
BLUE MAZE | 32373, 2019
blown glass
26.5"h x 12"w x 4"d
$18,000
RUBY MAZE | 31641
RUBY MAZE | 31641, 2018
blown glass
27.5"h x 13"w x 4"d
$20,000
BLUE AND BLACK LEAF | 31126
BLUE AND BLACK LEAF | 31126, 2012
blown glass
42.5"h x 7.75"w x 1.75"d
$16,000
RED AND BLACK LEAF | 30016
RED AND BLACK LEAF | 30016, 2015
glass
36.5"h x 9"w x 3"d
$14,000
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  • BRONZE PRINT | 32420, 2020
    blown glass
    28"h x 13.5"w x 3.25"d
    $22,000
  • BLACK PRINT | 32527, 2020
    glass
    29.75"h x 13"w x 3"d
    $22,000
  • BLACK AND AQUA PRINT | 32526, 2020
    glass
    26.75"h x 13"w x 3"d
    $22,000
  • BLUE MAZE | 32419, 2020
    blown glass
    30"h x 14"w x 3.5"d
    $22,000
  • BLUE MAZE | 32373, 2019
    blown glass
    26.5"h x 12"w x 4"d
    $18,000
  • RUBY MAZE | 31641, 2018
    blown glass
    27.5"h x 13"w x 4"d
    $20,000
  • BLUE AND BLACK LEAF | 31126, 2012
    blown glass
    42.5"h x 7.75"w x 1.75"d
    $16,000
  • RED AND BLACK LEAF | 30016, 2015
    glass
    36.5"h x 9"w x 3"d
    $14,000
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About
Dante Marioni

Dante Marioni burst onto the international glass scene at the age of 19 with a signature style that has been described as the purest of classical forms executed in glass by an American glassblower. His amphoras, vases, and ewers are derived from Greek and Etruscan prototypes, yet they are imaginatively and sometimes whimsically reinterpreted. His impossibly elongated, sinuous shapes are made with bright and saturated contrasting colors.

Marioni’s sophisticated glass objects evoke the rich tradition of classical Mediterranean pottery and bronzes, and of Marioni’s training in centuries-old Venetian glassblowing techniques with some of the greatest masters in contemporary glass.

The son of American studio glass pioneer Paul Marioni, Dante was raised in a family of artists that includes two well-known uncles, painter Joseph Marioni and conceptual artist Tom Marioni.

Marioni first held a blowpipe at the age of nine. By the time he was 15, he was working after school at one of the first cooperative hotshops and showrooms, The Glass Eye, in Seattle Washington. Although he loved glassblowing, making production studio glass felt limiting.

“The prevailing aesthetic [in American studio glass in the 1970s] was loose and free-form” observed Marioni, “I personally had no interest in that.” Around the same time he met up with Benjamin Moore, another studio glass pioneer, and watched Moore make a perfectly symmetrical, on-center glass form inspired by Venetian glass. It had a dramatic and lasting effect on Marioni, who had not previously seen this type of glassblowing.

Moore soon became a great mentor and friend. “I worked with Benny any chance I got and still use his studio to this day to make some of my really large pieces,” Marioni says. He also studied with other well-known studio glass pioneers, such as Fritz Dreisbach and Richard Marquis, who is widely recognized for his unique interpretations of Venetian decorative techniques.

In 1983, Moore introduced Marioni to Lino Tagliapietra, the legendary maestro who traveled from Murano to teach young American glassblowers at the Pilchuck Glass School in Washington state. “I took classes with Lino throughout the 1990s, and because of him, I received a very classical education in glassblowing. I never missed an opportunity to be around him.”

At the age of 23, Dante Marioni had his first sell-out gallery show in Seattle that featured his Whopper vases. This series introduced his signature, monumental forms and two-color style, and earned him a prestigious Louis Comfort Tiffany Fellowship. After two decades of experimentation, Marioni now creates a diverse range of tall, iconic forms with surface treatments such as murrine (mosaic) and reticello (air bubbles within a net pattern) in an ever-changing array of vibrant colors.

His most recent works are sculptural vessels inspired by the leaf. “Not the leaf in nature, but the stylized forms found in the decorative arts,” Marioni notes. The new vessels are beguilingly intricate, inventive, fresh and tradition-breaking. While his earlier work was about “form, conceived and executed from a design point of view,” his newest works focus on the exploration of color and pattern.

For Dante Marioni, making objects is about the art of glassblowing rather than the creation of glass art, the process rather than the result. Marioni’s elegant works are the brilliant record of his on-going relationship with and exploration of this material.

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