Thomas Patti Art for Sale at Auction

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An honors graduate (1969) of Pratt Institute, Brooklyn, NY, where Thomas received a master’s degree in industrial design. His awards, honors, fellowships, and displays are numerous. After a brief encounter with the studio glass movement at the Penland School in 1970, Patti returned to Massachusetts and developed his own unique approaches to shaping and fusing Vitrolite and sheet glass. His art involves layering modular units pressed through strata that are engineered through enormous pressure in a huge compression system that uses intense air pressure. This allows Patti to work on an architectural scale to produce large plate glass layered with imbedded with unusual and varied substances. The optical results of his works are stunning, surprising and prismatic. In addition to works in numerous public and private collections, Patti was commissioned by the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston to install in 1997 a glass wall (Spectral Gateway) as part of its permanent collection.