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Fall 2006

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New Artists

Cristine Santo Panepinto
Jim Slaughter
Paulo DeLima & Lisa Blalock
Rocco Borghese

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Cristine Santo Panepinto

Cristine Santo Panepinto started her art career at age seven - she created a mural in crayon on the exterior of her house! Unfortunately, her parents did not own the house, and the landlord was not pleased with her handiwork. Though her arm was soon weak from the many hours it took to clean the stucco, her interest in art remained strong, and she painted her way through high school before majoring in art at Hamilton College.

Although oil painting had always been her preferred way to create art, in 1991 she took an intensive papermaking workshop and immediately became hooked on the medium. Artist Cristine Santo Panepinto She loved the messy process of making paper, as well as the texture and color of the finished product. Over the years she kept experimenting with paper, took more advanced classes, and taught several workshops.

In 2000 she decided to start a business making handmade paper lampshades. Although people liked the shades from the start, they often requested appropriate bases to go with them. After lots of experimentation, she came up with her signature mixed media bases. These are combinations of different materials designed to complement the shades.

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Jim Slaughter
Artist Jim Slaughter Jim Slaughter grew up in Crystal City, Missouri, a glass factory town. His father was a ceramic engineer, applying a scientific approach to glass. While Jim also entered the sciences becoming a cardiologist, he has always carried a fascination for the magical effects that glass has on light.

Jim began making stained glass windows in the early 70's while apprenticing with a medieval-style glass artist. In the late 80's he moved to lamp making, starting with the Tiffany design and quickly moving to his own designs. By that time he had accumulated a collection of over 400 colors of glass dating from as early as the 1940's. Soon he was collaborating with Steve Meikle, an artist who made original lamps with cloth and Artist Jim Slaughter mica shades. The partnership of his bases and Jim's shades resulted in many unique lamps that they sold in galleries and commissions for many years. When Steve passed on, Jim had learned many of his metalworking-for-lamps secrets, and has since retired from his cardiology practice to devote more time to his art.

Jim now has a studio connected to a plating shop where he can exercise all his glass and metalworking skills. Recently Jim's technique has expanded to electroforming (metal over glass) and enameling (glass over metal), allowing him to blur the boundaries between the materials and moving his works more toward "light sculptures".

Through the evolution of his work over the last 35 years he has never lost his vision of the magical effects of glass on light. Working with lamps, where the light originates from within the object, he feels as if he is tapping into humanity's ancient and abiding fascination with the dancing light and color from a campfire. By utilizing some old metalworking and glass-working techniques, plus some more recent technology, he hopes to bring that magic into people's homes.

All of Jim's works are one-of-a-kind, all signed and most dated. Close approximations can be reproduced and Jim welcomes commissions.

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Paulo DeLima & Lisa Blalock
Artists Paulo DeLima and Lisa Blalock Paulo and Lisa are a team of two glass blowers that have collaborated to design hand-blown functional and decorative art glass. Their unique designs are influenced by classical Venetians techniques and modern design. They specialize in creating custom lighting fixtures for private home and public spaces.

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Rocco Borghese
Rocco grew up around glass art his entire life. His father started glass Artist Rocco Borghese blowing at the age of fifteen, and eventually opened his own school. Rocco and his two brothers were lead into the profession and each adopted their own style.

As Rocco became more accomplished he decided to study Architecture combined with Interior Design, and eventually went to London where he worked on many projects. He took on creating neon signs, which challenged him to learn other complicated techniques.

Rocco eventually returned to Italy, after a 4-year stint in the restaurant business, and bought another studio with his brothers. Just outside the city of Milan, Rocco and his brothers put their years of experience together to design and create truly unique glass art.

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