Barbara Idzikowska

WSKG Arts is proud to partner with the Corning Museum of Glass in a series of features highlighting their past resident artists. This piece profiles Barbara Idzikowska.Barbara Idzikowska has been fascinated by glass for over twenty years. Living and working in Wrocław, Poland, she seeks to give ideas material form through her work in glass. In 2004, she established Atelier Si, Pb…, a studio of drawing on glass, with the graphic designer Eugeniusz Get Stankiewicz. Idzikowska has presented solo exhibitions since 1991, including the most recent Laundry and Laundress at the Muzeum Karkonoskie in Jelenia Góra, Poland, in 2012. Her work has been included in New Glass Review 19, 18, and 15.Idzikowska came to The Studio in October 2013 as part of the joint Artists-in-Residence partnership with the John Michael Kohler Arts Center in Sheboygan, WI. During her residency, she explored the “symbolic, formal, and technological relationships between drawing and glass, space, architecture.” “I have experimented with various techniques and made my own technological discoveries,”says Idzikowska. “Clarity and simplicity have been my guiding concerns.”https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6L4OgzTVbP4This feature was produced by the Corning Museum of Glass