{"id":60076,"date":"2023-06-30T12:00:59","date_gmt":"2023-06-30T16:00:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thelaurelofasheville.com\/updatestage\/?p=60076"},"modified":"2023-06-26T19:15:39","modified_gmt":"2023-06-26T23:15:39","slug":"feature-artist-ben-greene-colonnese","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thelaurelofasheville.com\/updatestage\/arts\/feature-artist-ben-greene-colonnese\/","title":{"rendered":"Feature Artist: Ben Greene-Colonnese"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_60027\" style=\"width: 1210px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-60027\" class=\"size-full wp-image-60027\" src=\"https:\/\/thelaurelofasheville.com\/updatestage\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/Feature-Artist-Ben-Greene-Colonnese-Be-Here-Now.-Ben-Greene-Colonnese-artist-copy.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1200\" height=\"874\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thelaurelofasheville.com\/updatestage\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/Feature-Artist-Ben-Greene-Colonnese-Be-Here-Now.-Ben-Greene-Colonnese-artist-copy.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/thelaurelofasheville.com\/updatestage\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/Feature-Artist-Ben-Greene-Colonnese-Be-Here-Now.-Ben-Greene-Colonnese-artist-copy-300x219.jpg 300w, https:\/\/thelaurelofasheville.com\/updatestage\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/Feature-Artist-Ben-Greene-Colonnese-Be-Here-Now.-Ben-Greene-Colonnese-artist-copy-1024x746.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/thelaurelofasheville.com\/updatestage\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/Feature-Artist-Ben-Greene-Colonnese-Be-Here-Now.-Ben-Greene-Colonnese-artist-copy-768x559.jpg 768w, https:\/\/thelaurelofasheville.com\/updatestage\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/Feature-Artist-Ben-Greene-Colonnese-Be-Here-Now.-Ben-Greene-Colonnese-artist-copy-810x590.jpg 810w, https:\/\/thelaurelofasheville.com\/updatestage\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/Feature-Artist-Ben-Greene-Colonnese-Be-Here-Now.-Ben-Greene-Colonnese-artist-copy-1140x830.jpg 1140w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1200px) 100vw, 1200px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-60027\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Be Here Now. Ben Greene-Colonnese, artist<\/p><\/div>\n<p>By Gina Malone<\/p>\n<p>Glass artist Ben Greene-Colonnese remembers the moment he began to see the entire natural world around him as sculpture. \u201cI took a hike to the rock cliffs at Rumbling Bald,\u201d he says, \u201cwhere I hiked aimlessly upwards until I came face to face with an ancient granite monolith surrounded by massive eroded boulders that had tumbled down the mountainside and been carved by the experience. It hit me like a ton of bricks! These stones looked like works of modern sculpture\u2014and some seemed better made than works of art I\u2019d studied in school.\u201d From that moment, he began to incorporate what he saw in nature into his own work. An avid rock climber and fly fisherman, he has spent the last 10-plus years climbing, studying and creating artwork inspired by the southern Appalachian Mountains.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_60029\" style=\"width: 460px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-60029\" class=\"wp-image-60029\" src=\"https:\/\/thelaurelofasheville.com\/updatestage\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/Feature-Artist-Ben-Greene-Colonnese-Happiness.-Ben-Greene-Colonnese-artist-copy.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"450\" height=\"496\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-60029\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Happiness. Ben Greene-Colonnese, artist<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Greene-Colonnese grew up in Fayetteville, the son of creative parents, and studied art at the Cleveland Institute of Art in Ohio. While he began creating two-dimensional art, once he made and held his first handblown glass cup, he realized that he loved working in three dimensions and, specifically in the medium of glass. After graduating with a BFA in glassblowing and casting, he received a traveling artist\u2019s fellowship that let him wander around for a time in the western US, living in his 20-year-old Ford truck. Along the way, he collected large, unusual rocks that had been carved by wind and water. \u201cBy the time I got back to NC, I probably had 1,000 pounds of stone rattling around in the bed of that pick-up,\u201d he says.<\/p>\n<p>Asheville, with its vibrant arts scene\u2014including a community of glass artists\u2014and its abundant outdoors, drew Greene-Colonnese. He found himself welcomed into that community of artists and worked for a time for Alex Bernstein, whose parents Katherine and William Bernstein have been a part of the art glass movement in WNC from the beginning.<\/p>\n<p>Today, Greene-Colonnese is married to Jenna and has a one-year-old daughter Harper, both of whom he enjoys sharing the natural world with. They live in Asheville and he works in a studio 20 feet from his front door.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn my glasswork, I am attempting to create a visual bridge between two aesthetics: the primal aesthetic of the natural world and the aesthetic of the created form,\u201d he says. \u201cThis bridge both honors the natural world as untamed and opaque, and transcends it with transparency. I find glass to be physically tactile, yet a surprisingly primal substance. In the joining of cast glass to natural stone, I am trying to find ways to aesthetically complement or echo original and naturally occurring forms with mirror-image glass forms. These joined pieces trigger for me\u2014and I hope for the viewer\u2014a sense of awe and wonder. Relatively small in terms of the large, greater world, they become scaled-down representatives\u2014allowing us to take the grandeur of the natural world into our city spaces.\u201d<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_60030\" style=\"width: 460px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-60030\" class=\"wp-image-60030\" src=\"https:\/\/thelaurelofasheville.com\/updatestage\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/Feature-Artist-Ben-Greene-Colonnese-Stones-Resting.-Ben-Greene-Colonnese-artist-copy.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"450\" height=\"266\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thelaurelofasheville.com\/updatestage\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/Feature-Artist-Ben-Greene-Colonnese-Stones-Resting.-Ben-Greene-Colonnese-artist-copy.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/thelaurelofasheville.com\/updatestage\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/Feature-Artist-Ben-Greene-Colonnese-Stones-Resting.-Ben-Greene-Colonnese-artist-copy-300x178.jpg 300w, https:\/\/thelaurelofasheville.com\/updatestage\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/Feature-Artist-Ben-Greene-Colonnese-Stones-Resting.-Ben-Greene-Colonnese-artist-copy-1024x606.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/thelaurelofasheville.com\/updatestage\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/Feature-Artist-Ben-Greene-Colonnese-Stones-Resting.-Ben-Greene-Colonnese-artist-copy-768x454.jpg 768w, https:\/\/thelaurelofasheville.com\/updatestage\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/Feature-Artist-Ben-Greene-Colonnese-Stones-Resting.-Ben-Greene-Colonnese-artist-copy-810x479.jpg 810w, https:\/\/thelaurelofasheville.com\/updatestage\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/Feature-Artist-Ben-Greene-Colonnese-Stones-Resting.-Ben-Greene-Colonnese-artist-copy-1140x675.jpg 1140w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 450px) 100vw, 450px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-60030\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Stones Resting. Ben Greene-Colonnese, artist<\/p><\/div>\n<p>He uses the technique of lost wax casting, creating molds with soft wax that is then steamed out of a one-time-use mold he fills with molten glass. Once the molten glass has cooled, he can carve and polish the shape into a finished piece. Typically, he has had a vision of the completed piece in mind before he even begins.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe process of casting glass is methodical and almost meditative,\u201d Greene-Colonnese says. \u201cThere are so many complicated steps involved that I often find myself completely immersed in the process. The beauty, to me, is how slow and process-oriented the act is. Art is in my blood; I live and breathe it. I know it sounds corny, but when people ask me why I create, I can only reply that I make art because I have to.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The owners of Wood Berry Gallery discovered and were immediately interested in Greene-Colonnese\u2019s work when his parents visited the gallery last year and talked about their son\u2019s work. \u201cPeople are constantly commenting about the museum quality of his cast glass work,\u201d says gallery co-owner Mark Holland. \u201cThose pieces have an aura of ancient artifacts with their simplicity and translucent colors.\u201d One of the works with sculpted glass affixed to stone in the gallery at present, he adds, is simply \u201cmonumental.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><em>Follow Ben Greene-Colonnese\u2019s work on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/bgcglass\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Instagram<\/a> and Facebook <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/BgcGlass\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">@bgcglass<\/a>. Among regional galleries representing his work is Wood Berry Gallery, 66 East Main Street, Saluda. Hours are Tuesday through Sunday 12 to 5:30 p.m. Learn more at <a href=\"http:\/\/WoodBerryGallery.net\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">WoodBerryGallery.net<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Glass artist Ben Greene-Colonnese remembers the moment he began to see the entire natural world around him as sculpture. \u201cI took a hike to the rock cliffs at Rumbling Bald,\u201d he says.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":60029,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[47,69],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-60076","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-arts","category-craft-arts"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.5 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Feature Artist: Ben Greene-Colonnese - The Laurel of Asheville<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Glass artist Ben Greene-Colonnese remembers the moment he began to see the entire natural world around him as sculpture. \u201cI took a hike to the rock cliffs at Rumbling Bald,\u201d he says.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/thelaurelofasheville.com\/updatestage\/arts\/feature-artist-ben-greene-colonnese\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Feature Artist: Ben Greene-Colonnese - 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