When Dale Chihuly went to Venice in 1996, he called the project Chihuly Over Venice.
Nine years earlier, Jon Kessler took a subtler approach. Below, Kessler’s Under Venice (Aluminum, Plexiglass, photomural, Murano vases, gears, chain, lights and motors).
In the 1980s, Kessler and Christopher Wilmarth staked out what became a road-not-taken in glass. Kessler’s commitment to the medium proved fickle. Wilmarth died in 1987 in his mid-40s.
Kessler: (City, 1989)
Wilmarth, who more or less owns that smoked glass and dusty metal (images via artnet):
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