Hugged to Death, Creeps, All Wound Up, from the series “Little Monsters”

A chubby glass monster with blue and purple horizontal stripes that look like string wrapped around it. It has black arms, and a yellow mouth, eyes, and eyebrows.

A cylinder-shaped yellow monster with red dots has black arms, a silver frown, and eyes. On its head are three red gumdrop-shaped monsters with angry faces.

A cylinder-shaped orange monster has cream vertical stripes, and yellow eyes and smile. Its black arms wrap around a green, purple, and yellow-striped smaller monster with a squiggly yellow mouth and X eyes.

Materials:: Blown and hot-sculpted glass
Dimensions:: Largest: 56 x 26 x 23 cm
Made:: United States, Tacoma, Washington : 2017 - 2018

Artist(s):

Stern, Austin: born: 1989; United States

Selector Statement

Playful and masterfully made, Stern’s pieces perfectly encapsulate the current state of American glassblowing. His work excellently combines complex Venetian glassblowing techniques with the raucous humor of early Funk Art–infused studio glass.

–Silbert, Susie J.