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Artist Statement:
Rick L. Silas: Inventor and
patent holder on Cold Bent
Glass & Shattered Laminated
Glass Technologies. Rick L.
Silas has been a working
artist for the last twenty
five years in Canada. After
five years of formal art
studies, in Montreal and
Calgary, he abandoned
traditional mediums in favor
of contemporary ...
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Artist Exhibitions:
Sidney Fine Art Show October
11 - 14, 2007
Juror's Choice Award for
"Discovery" glass sculpture...
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Artist Galleries:
coming soon to...
Main Street Gallery
The Pier
Sidney, British Columbia,
Canada
Gallery of Artisans
Victoria, British Columbia,
Canada
The Finer Things Gallery
Shawnigan Lake, British
Columbia, Canada
The New West Gallery
Sidney, British Columbia,
Canada
www.thenewwestgallery.com...
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Collections:
Numerous Private Collections
throughout Canada, United
States & Europe...
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Commissions:
Rick has done hundreds of
private and corporate
commissions over the past
twenty years below is just a
sampling:
Selected Private, Public &
Corporate Commissions &
Installations
Arts Centre At Cedar Hill,
Victoria, BC – In process –
60’ x 10’ Art Glass Wall
Installation - September 2011
BC Oil & Gas Commission,
Victoria, BC – “Shift” ...
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Reviews for Rick L Silas:
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Sidney Fine Art Show October 2007
Juror's Choice Award for "Discovery" glass sculpture
TELEVISION INTERVIEWS:
Discovery Channel - "Daily Planet" 1st Aired April 17 & 18, 2007..shown again, June 2007
Watch Rick L. Silas create a large glass sculpture using his patented cold bent glass process. More information can be found on www.dailyplanet.ca click onto broadband click onto Daily Planet scroll down to April 17th show "heatless glass"
CBC - "Dragons' Den - November 8th 2006
Watch Rick L. Silas successfully pitch his patented techniques to a group of investors or "Dragons" For more information visit www.cbc.ca/dragonsden/ click "season one" then "episode six" then onto photo of Rick or "Silastial Glass Inc.
Watch for an update on Rick on Season Two starting in October 2007
A-Channel "Morning Show" November 30, 2005
PRINT:
Times Colonist - July 11, 2007
Sidney Times - Silas' Silastial Glass - "The art that's simply impossible." - January 2007
Times Colonist - "Sculptor to add touch of glass to exhibition" - July 13, 2006
CBC News - "Inglewood park sculpure torn down" - December 6, 2006
Victoria News' "Career Carved in Glass" - August 31, 2005
The Ladysmith, Chemainus Chronicle - "Glass artist works outside the mold" - May 11, 2004
More to follow...
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