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David Goldhagen
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Using traditional glassblowing methods thousands of years old, David Goldhagen creates the work of art at the end of a blowpipe. Each piece is individually blown without the use of molds. Goldhagen uses wide swifts of brightly colored glass, adding flecks of super brilliant goldstone trapped in clear crystal.
The power of Goldhagen’s visual imagery matches the unusual master technique required to create his larger pieces. His platters and pods are extremely difficult forms to achieve in hand-blown glass. Working with 10 to 15 pounds of molten glass at the end of a five foot blowpipe, Goldhagen begins each piece as a bubble which glows at temperatures of 2000 degrees and above. He adds various contrasting colors of molten glass and creates the flat forms of the plates and pods attaching this bubble to a rod, opening and spinning out the form in one continuous movement. Some of these extraordinary pieces measure 40” in diameter. Every unique piece Goldhagen makes is slowly cooled, hand polished, signed and dated.
Goldhagen earned his bachelor’s degree from Tulane University. In advanced glass studies at Penland School of Crafts, he worked with Richard Ritter and Paul Stankard. At Washington’s renowned Pilchuck Glass Center, he studied with Dale Chihuly, Ann Warf and Klas Moje. His works are in permanent collections of numerous institutions and corporations frequently commission his work.
His exhibitions collection list includes: Coca – Cola, AT&T, Bell South International, Merrill Lynch, The Cerebral Palsy Foundation, Walt Disney World, The North Carolina Museum of Art, Fayetteville Museum of Art and The City of Winter Park, Florida Public Library.
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