GLANC Visit with De la Torre Brothers - Friday 2/28 at BAGI (Bay Area Glass Institute)

by Vivien Hart

We enjoyed a fascinating exhibit, lecture, and glass-blowing demonstration at the BAGI hot shop in February by the De la Torre brothers—Einar and Jamex De la Torre. The two brothers hail from Guadalajara, Mexico and got their start as teenagers. They work on both sides of the border in Baja and San Diego.

Their bicultural identities inform their work. They often combine mixed media with their glass work. Their work is very ornate and multifaceted. They also enjoy creating installation work using lenticular printing which uses a number of lenses to give an illusion of motion or depth in an image.

The brothers often use 30-40lbs of glass in their sculptural pieces. They demonstrated the making of “Portal of life” in the hot shop reminiscent of one of the pieces in the gallery exhibit.

They have a work described as a meteorite fire ball that will soon be in the modern wing of the Corning museum.

To experience more of their work you can check out the Collidoscope retro-perspective exhibit from Feb. 9th- May 4th at the Crocker art museum in Sacramento.
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For more information you can go to their website here: http://www.delatorrebrothers.art/