biography
Kathy Seff is a second-generation glass artisan by trade. She creates using a variety of materials, with a focus on using glass as a new media.
Her work has been exhibited in contemporary art galleries from Chicago to Southampton, NY, and pop-up galleries from Patchogue, NY to Tribeca. Skate decks, skeeball backs, bike rims, a phone booth, gallery and coffee shop windows have all been canvases for her use of glass, metal and ink.
Her most recent series of works: Art Glass Polaroids. Using photography, drawing and finally painting with ink, she documents her road trips and travels with scenes and imagery onto the glass then fires the ink into the glass. She invented this mini canvas of kiln-glass, cut and fired in the style and size of Polaroid 600 film two days before a month long solo USA road trip. She thought instead of sending polaroid pics as postcards, why not make them out of glass? She then auctioned the finished art glass polaroids on her facebook page while on the road for gas and travel money. Since then they have been exhibited at the Islip Art Museum, and included in a New York Contemporary Art Symposium (NYCAS) exhibition.
Kathy received the Strategic Opportunity Stipend grant from the New York Foundation for the Arts (NYFA) in 2010 for her serigraphy on glass portrait series. Her volunteer efforts have included sitting on the Board of Directors for Women Sharing Art, Inc. a not-for profit 501(c)(3) art organization as well as volunteering her graphic design skills to the Patchogue Arts Council in which she was awarded the “2011 Volunteer of the Year” award. In 2013, as part of Colorful Visions, she was awarded the Small Business Award from Islip Town.
Her work has been exhibited in contemporary art galleries from Chicago to Southampton, NY, and pop-up galleries from Patchogue, NY to Tribeca. Skate decks, skeeball backs, bike rims, a phone booth, gallery and coffee shop windows have all been canvases for her use of glass, metal and ink.
Her most recent series of works: Art Glass Polaroids. Using photography, drawing and finally painting with ink, she documents her road trips and travels with scenes and imagery onto the glass then fires the ink into the glass. She invented this mini canvas of kiln-glass, cut and fired in the style and size of Polaroid 600 film two days before a month long solo USA road trip. She thought instead of sending polaroid pics as postcards, why not make them out of glass? She then auctioned the finished art glass polaroids on her facebook page while on the road for gas and travel money. Since then they have been exhibited at the Islip Art Museum, and included in a New York Contemporary Art Symposium (NYCAS) exhibition.
Kathy received the Strategic Opportunity Stipend grant from the New York Foundation for the Arts (NYFA) in 2010 for her serigraphy on glass portrait series. Her volunteer efforts have included sitting on the Board of Directors for Women Sharing Art, Inc. a not-for profit 501(c)(3) art organization as well as volunteering her graphic design skills to the Patchogue Arts Council in which she was awarded the “2011 Volunteer of the Year” award. In 2013, as part of Colorful Visions, she was awarded the Small Business Award from Islip Town.
