Tom Patti
American, born 1943
Pittsfield, Massachusetts
Red Lumina with Concentric Disc
INV-1215
Tom Patti
American, born 1943
Pittsfield, Massachusetts1991
Red Lumina with Concentric Disc
Tom Patti American, born 1943 Pittsfield, Massachusetts →household accessoryglass
Date
1991
Medium
Plate glass
Dimensions
10.8 × 12.4 × 9.8 cm (4 1/4 × 4 7/8 × 3 7/8 in.)
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Location
Chicago, IL
Credit
Gift of the Auxiliary Board and the Henry Foundation
Thomas Patti was trained in industrial design at the Pratt Institute, and his interest in glass grew out of academic investigations into the nexus of art, engineering, and architecture. Patti’s work is nonfunctional and deals with the potential of the form, particularly the question of how to juxtapose pieces of glass. This piece invites the viewer to look into the glass (preferably with the aid of light transmitted from below) in order to appreciate the geometric yet delicate quality of the layers of glass.