December 2008
Glass sculptors Kathleen Mulcahy and Ron Desmett, whose love of glass art inspired the creation of the world renown Pittsburgh Glass Center, recently unveiled a fabricated and welded stainless steel and cast glass sculpture titled ‘The Spirit of Duquesne’.
The glass sculpture, commemorating Duquesne University's 130th anniversary, stands 6' 6" high and 5' 2” wide on an earthen four-foot mound on the Locust Circle, in the heart of the Duquesne University Campus, located in Pittsburgh, USA.
The glass sculptors, whose commissioned work appears in corporate, educational and other settings throughout the United States and several countries, chose stainless steel because its brilliant properties made a good partner to the cast glass rising within the form's structure.
"As glass sculptors, we try always to put glass in the best possible light," says Mulcahy. "Sometimes, that means pairing glass with its natural complement - a material that completes the form and amplifies what we're trying to express."
On the pairing of glass and steel, Desmett says it's also a nod to the steel and glass manufacturing so vital to the region's early industrial history. "Steel eventually stole the thunder and become synonymous with Southwestern Pennsylvania," he says. "We forget the seminal role of glass, and how that knowledge base gave rise to many glass sculptors."
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