Prairie Street Studios

Award-winning artist Hans Klemmer presents a bold and refreshing exploration of visual form and storytelling.

Klemmer skillfully combines metaphor with the power and sensuality of sculpted glass. His cast, carved and polished glass sculptures provide the viewer with intimate narrative landscapes, drawn from light, form and color. Hans explores ideas about memory, the passage of time and the processes of creation and transformation.

The forms of Klemmer’s pieces – as well as the techniques he uses to work the glass – mirror processes in nature, such as oxidation, erosion, growth and decay. As a result, many of his pieces evoke images of flowing water, ice crystals, mountain peaks and jagged canyons – all structures that appear solid and unyielding, but remain in constant flux.

The work reflects his sense of exploration: an exquisitely cut geometric crystal sculpture twisting light and color into unexpected planes, volcanic bursts of cut glass spewing from an otherwise simple vessel, layers of transparent color intermingling with ambient light. Hans’s sculptures reflect his feelings and sensitivity to others, curiosity and enthusiasm for bringing new dimensions to his sculpture. His art probes the depth of expressionism, incorporating history, memory and movement, and depicting the emotions and responses that objects and events arouse in him.

This is the underlying strength of his work in glass.