Katherine Rutecki^[12]

Katherine Rutecki is a sculptor living in Aotearoa who works with an emphasis in glass and lost wax casting techniques. Rutecki’s current work explores defences and boundaries of self. She holds a BFA in sculpture from the New York College of Ceramics at Alfred University, New York and a MFA in glass from Southern Illinois University.

Rutecki has been involved in several international group exhibitions, taking place at such venues as the New Orleans Museum of Art, the Ebeltoft Glass Museum in Denmark, and CICA Museum in the Republic of South Korea, as well as solo exhibitions in the USA, New Zealand, and Europe.

Katherine Rutecki

Tāmaki Makaurau, Aotearoa

Education
2015-2018 MFA Glass, Southern Illinois University. Carbondale, Illinois
2003-2007 BFA Sculpture, New York State College of Ceramics, Alfred University. Alfred, New York

Public Collections
The Arts House Trust, New Zealand
Ebeltoft Glass Museum, Denmark
New Orleans Museum of Art, Louisiana

Awards
2017 Art Alliance for Contemporary Glass Visionary Scholarship
2003-2007 Portfolio Scholarship, New York State College of Ceramics, Alfred, New York

Publications
Bradshaw-Heap, Laura, Katherine Rutecki TRAP: A Sculptural Performance at Gallery Shush11.10-17.10.2018, Gallery Shush, 2018
Townsend, Jen; Zettle-Sterling, Renee. CAST . Atglen, PA: Schiffer Publishing, 2017.
New Glass Review 36 , Corning, NY: The Corning Museum of Glass, 2015.
New Glass Review 33 , Corning, NY: Corning Museum of Glass, 2012.
Katherine Rutecki, THINK space Zine, volume 16, Masterworks Gallery. June 2012.
New Zealand Glass Art, New Zealand Society of Artists in Glass. Auckland: David Bateman Ltd, 2010 Glassposten, Nr. 4, GLASSMUSEET Venner, November 2008. (cover)

Pinched Dolphin

$950.00

Artwork for her solo exhibition at Public Record, JAN 25, "Personal Mythologies"

This sculptural object is a unique cast formed directly from wax moulded by hand, fingerprints tacked permanently in the cast bronze from body warm wax.

The wax pattern is sprued and coated inlayers of ceramic slurry which is fired in a gas kiln to harden the ceramic refractory and melt out the wax, leaving a negative space for the molten bronze to be poured into. The sprues are cut off and ground in the chasing process and sand blasted to ready the surface for patina which is finally sealed with wax.

*To maintain: clean with mild dish soap and dry, buff with soft clean cloth, an untinted wax furniture polish can be thinly applied to the dry sculpture and buffed if needed.

Material: Lost cast crystal and cast bronze with a traditional Japanese ptina

Size: H230 x W80 x D75 mm

Handcrafted in Auckland, New Zealand

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Pinched Dolphin

Katherine Rutecki^[12]