Barry Wechsler

ultraWAVE Art Metal Studio, located in Yorktown NY, is open daily by appointment. Our decorative vessels feature beautiful patinas and special vitreous enamel glass techniques, including champlevé (a method of kiln-fired glass inlay) and basse-taille (a method of kiln-fired glass overlay). “For me, there is an initial lure of pattern, followed by the joys of color and texture. By tuning into nature, I perceive resonant forms: circles, lines, cylinders and planes. This perception calls for the touch of craft and the rhythm of hand — the call to create. I invoke the malleable integrity of metal and the delicate certainty of glass. The result is a vessel — decorative and celebratory — which I offer up to others. The vessels are, ultimately, a dance with nature and a concentration of energies. I see each vessel as a unique form with unique lines; these serve as a physical matrix within which the luminosity of the enamel glass cells and the luster of the surrounding metal reserve emanate synchronously. Meditation on these four aspects of the vessel — structure, line, glass and substrate — flows into an awareness of possibilities and potentials. This is, actually, a celebration of our unique and individual human lights, colors, transparencies and mysteries.” Barry Wechsler