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Burgundy Lumina Starphire with Green
1992 · Glass and plastic (adhesive foil applied on bottom)
4 13/16 × 6 × 4 5/16 in., 11 lb. (12.3 × 15.2 × 11 cm, 5 kg)
The Metropolitan Museum of Art
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Thomas Patti
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Museum of Modern Art, New York
1979
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Thomas Patti works in cast glass and optical materials to create sculptures where refraction, transparency, and light function as primary formal elements. Since the 1970s, his forms have shifted and dissolved according to viewer position and ambient illumination, grounding his practice in postwar American engagement with industrial materials and phenomenological perception. His work treats glass not as a transparent vessel but as a sculptural medium with its own visual and spatial agency.
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