Skip to main content
Want more images or videos?
Request additional images or videos from the seller
1 of 2

Bengt Hokanson and Trefny Dix
Romeo and Juliet

About the Item

The artists, Bengt Hokanson and Trefny Dix, are known for their distinctive blown glass forms and their mixed media sculptures. Contemporary Italian and Swedish glasswork, urban graffiti, world textiles, as well as forms and color patterns from nature have influenced their blown glasswork. Bengt Hokanson graduated from Tulane University with a degree in Anthropology and a minor in Glass. After graduating, Bengt worked for glass artist, Gene Koss, and attended Pilchuck Glass School and The Corning Studio as both a student and as teaching assistant. Trefny Dix graduated from Indiana University Bloomington with a B.F.A. in Sculpture and a B.A. in Art History. She has studied glass at Pilchuck Glass School and The Corning Studio as well as Drawing and Painting at the Art Students League, NYC. Bengt and Trefny’s work is represented in private and public art collectionsthroughout the United States, Canada, and Europe and in galleries throughout the United States, Canada and England. ARTIST STATEMENTS We create blown glass and mixed media glass sculpture. Or interest in glass as a medium stems from the visual purity of glass and its ability to both illuminate and define a form. These two dynamic interactions have always inspired us and made glass an exciting material for our explorations of color, light and form. These elements of glass: its clarity, its fluid qualities, its ability to capture color, pattern and texture, are all at play in each of our pieces. In much of our work, we are attempting to make, or capture, a moment in time when the glass, energized by its state of balance, or unbalance, its color, pattern, and form, expresses movement. Bengt's family background is Swedish and my family background is Czechoslovakian. Both Sweden and the former Czechoslovakia have rich glass working and glass art traditions whose influences can be seen in our work. We use many Swedish glass blowing techniques while creating our work. The Swedes use of thick, clear glass, vivid color and simple forms has influenced our style and aesthetic. Through the use of color and form, we have tried to create the feeling of the beautiful, lush and stark Scandinavian landscape. Bengt's travels to Sweden as a child left him with a sense of the Swedish aesthetic. The work of contemporary Czechoslovakian glass artists has also influenced our work. The Czechs use of abstract forms, pure color and their exploration of the optic qualities of glass, has interested us for many years. Their interest in glass as pure form, one that defines the object, has inspired us to use light refraction and transparency as major elements in our work. We often use the interplay of patterns and reflected light to emphasize our forms and to suggest motion. We understand reoccurring themes in our work as tributes to our families homelands.

More From This Seller

View All
Tapestry Lino
By Bengt Hokanson and Trefny Dix
Located in New York, NY
Abstract design. Blown glass. Vibrant colors. About the Artists: Bengt Hokanson and Trefny Dix, are known for their distinctive blown glass forms and their mixed media sculptures. Contemporary Italian and Swedish glasswork, urban graffiti, world textiles, as well as forms and color patterns from nature have influenced their blown glasswork. Bengt Hokanson graduated from Tulane University with a degree in Anthropology and a minor in Glass. After graduating, Bengt worked for glass artist, Gene Koss...
Category

2010s Contemporary Abstract Sculptures

Materials

Blown Glass

White Valise
By Bengt Hokanson and Trefny Dix
Located in New York, NY
Abstract design. Blown glass. Vibrant colors. About the Artists: Bengt Hokanson and Trefny Dix, are known for their distinctive blown glass forms and their mixed media sculptures. Contemporary Italian and Swedish glasswork, urban graffiti, world textiles, as well as forms and color patterns from nature have influenced their blown glasswork. Bengt Hokanson graduated from Tulane University with a degree in Anthropology and a minor in Glass. After graduating, Bengt worked for glass artist, Gene Koss...
Category

2010s Contemporary Abstract Sculptures

Materials

Blown Glass

Chapter II - Catharsis
By Ed Haugevik
Located in New York, NY
Abstract Sculpture. About the Artist: Ed Haugevik has established a career as professional sculptor placing his work at numerous private and public sites throughout the country. ...
Category

2010s Abstract Abstract Sculptures

Materials

Steel

Artemis
By Ed Haugevik
Located in New York, NY
Abstract Sculpture. About the Artist: Ed Haugevik has established a career as professional sculptor placing his work at numerous private and public sites throughout the country. ...
Category

2010s Abstract Abstract Sculptures

Materials

Stainless Steel

Consequence
By Ed Haugevik
Located in New York, NY
Abstract Sculpture. About the Artist: Ed Haugevik has established a career as professional sculptor placing his work at numerous private and public sites throughout the country. ...
Category

2010s Abstract Abstract Sculptures

Materials

Steel

NorEaster
By Ed Haugevik
Located in New York, NY
Abstract Sculpture. Painted White. About the Artist: Ed Haugevik has established a career as professional sculptor placing his work at numerous private and public sites througho...
Category

2010s Abstract Abstract Sculptures

Materials

Stainless Steel

You May Also Like

Tin Can Light - Original Sculpture Lamp
By Boris Shpeizman
Located in AMSTERDAM, NL
Drawing from the ethos of giving new life to the discarded, this sculpture of eco-art presents a striking lamp sculpture that marries the elegance of blown glass with the grounded, e...
Category

2010s Contemporary More Art

Materials

Metal

Lantern Column II Blown Glass 46" High
By Niho Kozuru
Located in West Palm Beach, FL
Title: Lantern Column II Year: 1998 - 2014 Medium: Mold blown glass, cast polymer, steel, cast iron Size: 46 inches Price: $6,500 Niho Kozuru is a Japanese-born mixed media artist based in Boston, MA. Kozuru casts and reconfigures molds of her own designs, classical and industrial turned architectural forms in unexpected materials. Using rubber, glass and clay she creates columns with undulating silhouettes. The “Lantern Columns” are a group of 7 towers, ranging from 4 feet to 7 feet tall. They have been shown in various configurations in multiple US States as well as the Fukuoka City Museum in Kyushu, Japan. Kozuru made 60 components by blowing glass into molds of her own designs while at Artists in Residency at Penland School of Crafts in North Carolina. After traveling the world, the Lantern Columns have been arranged into their final configuration, with a steel armature within and each topped with a vivid cast iron final...
Category

2010s Contemporary Abstract Sculptures

Materials

Steel, Iron

Zanfirico Piscine 6885
By David Patchen
Located in Napa, CA
David Patchen creates vivid and luminous glass works using the time-honored techniques of cane and murrine glass blowing, originally discovered in the glass blowing studios of Venice...
Category

2010s Contemporary Abstract Sculptures

Materials

Blown Glass

Early Summer - tall, colorful, hand-blown glass and steel outdoor sculpture
By Susan Rankin
Located in Bloomfield, ON
This tall, colorful, hand-blown glass and steel outdoor sculpture is by Susan Rankin. Susan Rankin’s elegant and colorful hand-blown glass art has been exhibited across North America...
Category

2010s Contemporary Abstract Sculptures

Materials

Steel

"Amethyst Murrine Vessel" one-of-a-kind handblown glass art by Angelo Ambrosia
Located in Boca Raton, FL
One-of-a-kind, purple "Amethyst Murrine Vessel" handblown glass art vessel by glass artist Angelo Ambrosia. Ambrosia signature etched near bottom of vessel.
Category

2010s Contemporary Abstract Sculptures

Materials

Blown Glass

Avventurine Piscine 6297
By David Patchen
Located in Napa, CA
David Patchen creates vivid and luminous glass works using the time-honored techniques of cane and murrine glass blowing, originally discovered in the glass blowing studios of Venice...
Category

2010s Contemporary Abstract Sculptures

Materials

Blown Glass

Recently Viewed

View All