Katherine Gray

Los Angeles, CA

To artist Katherine Gray, glass is a material of both otherworldly perfection and of mundane familiarity. With her work, Gray asks her viewers to consider the notion of disappearance as glass can be so ubiquitous that it is often not even noticed. The iridescence in Katherine Gray’s work is created when microscopically thin layers of vaporized metallic oxides, layered with a coatings of vaporized quartz, are applied to the surface of the glass, a technology developed by NASA for glass panels used on rockets and space shuttles.