DEBORAH CZERESKO
Deborah Czeresko, is a New York City-based artist and designer, who is best known for her work with glass. She first started working with glass in 1987, taking classes at the New York Experimental Glass Workshop (now UrbanGlass) with scholar and glassmaker William Gudenrath. She received her MFA from Tulane University in New Orleans in 1992. Today her studio practice includes hot glass sculpting, performance, and collaboration.
In her most recent series, widely publicized through her winning of the first season of Netflix’s reality TV show Blown Away, she makes glass objects representing common food staples such as eggs, meat & potatoes and references art history, to speak passionately about gender and class issues and the experience of being othered as a queer woman artist. She is one of the 100 artists, whose work is included in New Glass Now, Corning Museum of Glass’ juried survey exhibition of the state of contemporary glass. Her work is held in the collection of the Corning Museum of Glass, Corning, NY.
Czeresko has been an instructor and visiting artist at many universities and schools throughout the United States and Europe, most recently at Tyler School of Arts in Philadelphia, College of Creative Studies in Detroit and LUCA School of Arts in Ghent, Belgium. She is also a highly sought-after master fabricator, who has worked with and made work for individual artists such as Eric Fischl, Robert Gober, Kiki Smith and Lorna Simpson as well as prestigious architects and interior designers such as Jeffrey Beer Intl., FORM Architecture, Selldorf Architects, Thad Hayes Inc., and The Wiseman Group.
