MARKOW & NORRIS RAISE THE MELTING
POINT WITH THEIR GROUNDBREAKING
SCULPTURES.
With formidable technical skill and a keen eye for color, Eric Markow and Thom Norris ( wovenglass.com) have spent the past five years doing the impossible: they’ve developed a technique to literally weave glass.
The Falls Church, Va., artists create both fantastical and abstract works that revel in the rich, luminous properties of glass. From the enormous Peace Crane to smaller, more intimate tabletop works that invite you to peer into them, Markow and Norris prove that you don’t need a loom — or even fiber — to weave.
Arwen O'Reilly Griffith: What are your backgrounds? How did you get involved with glass? Eric Markow: B.S. in chemical engineering. Thom Norris: B.S. in biology. We met in early 1994, and Eric had started taking a class in stained glass at a local community center. I started working with Eric on small projects and slowly they turned into larger projects and commissioned works around the Washington, D.C., area. We created very abstract, organically inspired stained glass windows for the next decade.
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