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Antipatharia, 2019

Antipatharia is a work created by the artist Toots Zynsky through a technique she developed called "Filet-de-Verre" which involves the thermal fusion and the forming of large quantities of colored glass threads produced in her studio, from the barrel of Murano glass, Italy.

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the artists/

Toots Zynsky

American artist Toots Zynsky is an acknowledged Master of the International Studio Glass Movement. Zynsky studied at the Rhode Island School of Design at a time when the cultural thresholds between Fine Arts, Applied Arts and Design were beginning to blur. After graduating, she traveled extensively and lived in Europe (Paris and Amsterdam), from the early eighties until 1999. During that time she also designed a special project for Venini in Murano. Zynsky’s artworks are represented in over 70 International museum collections, including the Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh, PA; Corning Museum of Glass, Corning, NY; Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, San Francisco, CA; Hokkaido Museum of Modern Art, Sapporo, Japan; Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY; Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, Montreal, Quebec, Canada; Musée de Design et d’Arts Appliqués (mudac), Lausanne, Switzerland; Musée des Arts Décoratifs du Louvre, Paris, France; Musei Civici Veneziani (Museo Correr), Venice, Italy; Museum of Arts and Design, New York, NY; Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA; Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY; National Gallery of Australia, Canberra, ACT, Australia; 
National Museum of American Art (Renwick Gallery), Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC; 
Philadelphia Museum of Art, PA; Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, The Netherlands; Toledo Museum of Art, Toledo, OH; Victoria and Albert Museum, London, United Kingdom.