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Popelka Trenchard Glass

Fine Art Gallery showing cast glass sculpture and murrini blown glass made on site in Door County. Classes and demonstrations available. Prices start at $290. Hardware is not included
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Jeremy Popelka Casting Work

Jeremy Popelka has been casting hot glass since 1981. His work is in many museums and collections, and he teaches glass technique internationally. Please call or email to see more work.

Mollusk
Mollusk

We are proud to say that Mollusk is now in the permanent collection of the Museum of Wisconsin Art.

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Edge, permanent collection Museum of Wisconsin Art
Edge, permanent collection Museum of Wisconsin Art
Thaw, Blown Glass & Wood, 40" x 9 x 9"
Thaw, Blown Glass & Wood, 40" x 9 x 9"
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Stephanie Trenchard Glass Casting

Stephanie Trenchard (site) enlists collective imagery to tell narratives and biographies in her cast glass sculptures and oil paintings, most often focusing on women artists.  She is especially interested in how motherhood and partnership has effected their careers, and has created her own language of imagery and symbols that become totems, reappearing in many of her pieces.

Trenchard's process is to sculpt and paint objects in glass that tell illusory narratives. The sculpted pieces are encased in sand cast glass forms. The cast pieces are assembled in different sections, often stacked or nestled together and, on occasion, can be reconfigured. A successful work speaks to the viewer as if in an intimate conversation.

Trenchard's work is also found at , Raven Gallery, Aspen, Pieces Gallery, Vail, Edgewood Orchard Gallery, Fish Creek, WI, Tory Folliard Gallery, Milwaukee, WI

 

 

Trenchard has worked as a professional artist for over 30 years. She holds a BFA from Illinois State University. She works in a multitude of mediums including glass and oil painting.  Along with her husband, artist Jeremy Popelka, Trenchard has owned and operated a working glass studio and small gallery since 1997, while continuing to create and show work nationally. She has taught workshops and classes at: Pratt Fine Art Center (Seattle 2010), University of Wisconsin, (Madison, 2009 & Stevens Point, 2014). She completed a residency at Ragdale, (Illinois 2010). Prizes include: Margaret Rahill Memorial Award (2014) & Best of Show Uptown Arts Fair, (MN 2000)

Transformations, 2017, 46"x7.5"x6" Sand Cast Glass
Transformations, 2017, 46"x7.5"x6" Sand Cast Glass

The myth of the beast or monster that are women. 

Tertiary Colors,
Tertiary Colors,

Tertiary Colors,  2017

Sand Cast Glass with Inclusions, 18.5 x 16.5 x 4.5"

Tory Folliard Gallery

This piece is called Tertiary Colors which is a reference to the third tier of the color wheel where colors are more nuanced. It is also my reference to American women artists who are not always considered the most known in art history.  But these artists are beginning to be noticed.  Here is a little information about these artists. 

 

Alice Neel (1990-1984) was a visual artist, who was particularly well known for oil painting and for her portraits depicting friends, family, lovers, poets, artists and strangers. She had a tumultuous personal life as she struggled to pursue her art and be a mother. Her brave self-portrait is a nude she did of herself in her 80’s showing her own body in a natural way without any sort of flattering embellishment or positioning. This is the 3rd piece I have made that references Neel. 

 

Florine Stettheimer, (1871-1944) was a surrealist painting in the 1920. She was the only contemporary woman artist among the early 20th century artists that I recall studying in art history. I was always looking for women artists throughout history. She is not very well known. Currently, there is an retrospective of her work at the Jewish Museum in NYC. This is my second piece with Stettheimer. I made a triple portrait of her last year. 

 

Elaine DeKooning (1918-1989) was an artist in her own right but frequently overshadowed by her more famous husband. Like me she worked in abstraction as well as figuratively. I am drawn to her portraits. 

Triple Portrait of Florine Stettheimer,
Triple Portrait of Florine Stettheimer,

Triple Portrait of Florine Stettheimer, 2017, 

Assembled Sand Cast Glass with Inclusions

32” x 11” x 4”

Pieces Gallery, Vail

This piece is about Florine Stettheimer. She was an american surrealists artist in the early twentieth century. This is a triple portrait of her. In the center is her self portrait which is based on Manet’s Olympia which in turn was based on Titians Venus of Urbino.   I am continuing the link by showing that she referenced herself in this portrait.  The flower and the bird are also representative of her in her opening up and her sensual nature.  And lastly, it is also a self-portrat, as if if I were an artist in the 1920’s.

Motherhood Trinity: Portrail of Alice Neel, Sand Cast Glass, 18"x18"x4"
Motherhood Trinity: Portrail of Alice Neel, Sand Cast Glass, 18"x18"x4"

To whom was she more present: the daughter that was taken from her or the son she raised. 

Vanessa and Virginia, 43" x 11" x 6" Sand Cast Glass
Vanessa and Virginia, 43" x 11" x 6" Sand Cast Glass

Virginia Woolf and Vanessa Bell look at each other and think about what might have been.

Her Story, Sand Cast Glass, 16" x 15.5" x 4"
Her Story, Sand Cast Glass, 16" x 15.5" x 4"
Remembering Her,  Sand Cast Glass, 32" x 11.5" x 4" (sold)
Remembering Her, Sand Cast Glass, 32" x 11.5" x 4" (sold)
Bird House,  Sand Cast Glass, 15" x 15.5" x 4" (sold)
Bird House, Sand Cast Glass, 15" x 15.5" x 4" (sold)

Trenchard, Birdhouse, 14 x 14" Sand Cast Class with Inclusions, 2014

Looking Back- In process
Looking Back- In process
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Handblown murrini glass

Jeremy Popelka blows fine vessels in the venetian style of murrini glass. Please call for prices and availability.

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Trenchard Paintings

Through the use of color and pattern Trenchard establishes a sense of place and creates landscapes through color. 

Sturgeon Bay View, 20x20" oil on canvas
Sturgeon Bay View, 20x20" oil on canvas
Soo Lake, 2017, 36x36" Oil on Canvas
Soo Lake, 2017, 36x36" Oil on Canvas
Wisconsin Spring Field, 36x36" Oil
Wisconsin Spring Field, 36x36" Oil
Blue Path, 36" x 36" Oil on Canvas, $2400
Blue Path, 36" x 36" Oil on Canvas, $2400
Lone Tree, Oil on Canvas, 48 x 38
Lone Tree, Oil on Canvas, 48 x 38
Map Series:Buenos Aires, 2017, Oil 36x36"
Map Series:Buenos Aires, 2017, Oil 36x36"
Fall Path Series IV, Oil on Canvas, 36 x 36
Fall Path Series IV, Oil on Canvas, 36 x 36
Skyline Drive
Skyline Drive

2014, Oil on Canvas, 48" x 60"

Green Field at Shore
Green Field at Shore

2014, Oil on Canvas, 36" x 36"

Samples of pendant, sconce and ceiling lights and lamps.

Original and custom pendant & sconce lighting fixtures and lamps. Prices start at $290. Hardware not included

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Upcoming Events & Gallery Links

Established in 1997 Popelka Trenchard Glass is a full working hot glass studio & fine art gallery where nationally known artist Jeremy Popelka & Stephanie Trenchard work and teach.

Currently we have the following representation:

Bender Gallery , Asheville, NC

Pieces Gallery Vail, CO

Raven Gallery, Aspen, CO

Tory Folliard Gallery, Milwaukee, WI

Edgewood Orchard Galleries, Fish Creek, WI

Popelka Murrini Bowl, 15 x 15 x 9"
Popelka Murrini Bowl, 15 x 15 x 9"
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