"You're gonna have to settle down and breathe the air off the roof."
Glass, leather, light, steel
2026
This piece will be included in Anna Linzer's memoir release show at Peter Miller Books in Seattle, along with work by Oscar Tuazon on May 6th.
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Anna Linzer is my actual mom, and Oscar Tuazon/Hansen is my actual brother! It's a family party!
Making tubes in preparation for the big show tomorrow at @publicglass ! Utilizing a big team format, we will be assembling large vessels with many tubes sticking out of them! It will be wild!! Very fast and fun and hot and confusing. Come join us in SF, tickets still available via Public Glass.
Come watch me work next Saturday at Public Glass in San Francisco! I won't be making power crystals, I'll be making POWER VESSELS!! April 25, 6-10. Get your tickets now before they sell out! Good beer! Weird dudes!
Very exciting glassblowing event April 25 at @publicglass in San Francisco. Tickets may still be available! All ages and emotions welcome! I will make tubes and attach them to bubbles!
If you want to watch me work in person, I'll be demonstrating at @publicglass on April 25th in San Francisco. I will be making big beautiful vessels with lots of holes and tubes. Very exciting stuff to watch in person, way more interesting than waxing jute! Tickets are available now but they'll sell out soon!
"Looking everywhere for a home that used to be right here."
Electricity, glass, light, steel.
2017
This work is included in "Longer Light: Selections From the Collection" at the Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art WSU, a gift in honor of my grandfather, Bill Hansen, who attended WSU in the 1930s but was unable to finish his education as he was needed on the family farm. WSU always held a place of reverence to me as a child, as grandpa Bill always loved to talk about it and keep up with their sports games.
Eastern Washington was my grandparents home, but they lived in Western Washington in their later years, the history of coming from depression era farms and ranches east of the Cascades was strong, and visiting Yakima with them was always powerful. The rolling wheat fields and apple orchards were woven into me through my dad's stories of his childhood, and Bill's stories of trying to shake his hardscrabble cowboy youth. I can still taste that dry air as we crossed the mountains, the feel of that hot summer sun coming down into Yakima, the old falling down barns advertising applets and cotlets on the side of the road.
My own education in Eastern Washington and working on a ranch in Montana was greatly influenced by this family dynamic. My relationship to the land of America is a big part of being a father and passing on family stories, giving the gift of stories and knowledge, showing my kids the many parts of this beautiful country, helping them create their own connections and stories to this beautiful land. Our home is inside us, we are just visitors on this land.
It's the 9th anniversary of the time I collaborated with Dale Chihuly! He had no idea he collaborated with me, I was able to get this piece on loan from Marlborough, his NY gallery, through Leo Fitzpatrick who curated this humdinger of an exhibition in NYC.
Chihuly's Jerusalem Cylinders are some of my favorite of his works, they are both historically and technically very complex works. It was an honor to secretly collab with Uncle Dale, even though if he knew he might be upset with me. I created a tweaker shed in art fair in NYC that you had to peer through my own glass to view his work. The door was locked, so you could only view it through my homemade lens. This installation went fairly unnoticed, though personally it felt like a massive tectonic shift in the world of craft and glass, bringing this very Northwest conversation to NYC, inviting the international art scene into this very layered historical conversation between two NW boys.
