Dichroic Glass by Laurel Yourkowski

Glass Art Exhibit during August 2020: Open Tuesday-Saturday 11am-4pm

Featuring: Laurel Yourkowski

Being self-taught, my pieces are heavily influenced by the Art Nouveau style and distinguished by their unique, hand cut designs and the vibrant, bold colors of dichroic glass. I began creating fused glass in 1991 and have a studio near Kings Valley Oregon.

The spectacularly vibrant colors exhibited by dichroic glass are created by a very sophisticated combination of extremely thin, clear, crystalline layers that interact with each other and produce very specific reflected and transmitted colors. There are no absorptive pigments used in this process. This allows all of the light energy to be either reflected or transmitted and, in turn, creates the rich colors that characterize art works created with this glass.