"My work has always been fueled by the love of detail. Taking a moment, freezing it, zooming in on it to a point where I can share with others what I see -- my love for the transition.
The tension and tranquility of the moment is what I strive to discover.

I try to make my work not what it represents; but what it actually is. To have my work be believable and have cogency is the challenge. To rise to this challenge, often I play up the medium's natural state. I allow steel to rust, glass to break. I have explored multiple artistic avenues to get to the point where I am not. Such as my love of history, naturally occurring mimicry and the abstraction of artifact, my work has been forged into the forms that express these moments in which I find such delight.

The moments have been mechanized in a considerate portion of my work recently but have been static forms as well. The static forms more often express an inferred past or a history. The mechanized are forms that rely on basic laws of nature or interaction. Some pieces refer to my work as a tattoo artist and the interest in the body. The identity of the body, writing on the body: how that changes the body and that message it sends to others and its last breath of conversation with a mortician. The images I create on glass and steel are quite similar to these actions. The image is an act, a react or a memory."

So What is This Dude All About?

Rich Wren has just completing his Senior year at Tyler School of Art in Philadelphia, PA. Majoring in Glassblowing, he spends countless hours honing his craft as well as exploring other mediums.

Selected works will be on display starting May 4th, 2007 in Philadelphia, PA.


upcoming plans

Thank you to all who came out to Rich's BFA Exhibition opening reception on May 4th. Your continued support and interest in Rich's work is what keeps him going. Photos of the selected works on display can be seen on the first page of the Glass & Artistry Gallery. Please feel free to stop in at the Havana Lofts Gallery and see these beautiful pieces throughout the month of May.

Selected works will be on display from May 4th, 2007 through May 25th, 2007.