Linda MacNeil was born on April 14,1954 and is an American abstract artist, sculptor, and jeweler.
14 Facts About Linda MacNeil
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Linda MacNeil's focus since 1975 has been sculptural objets d'art and jewelry, and she works in series.
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Linda MacNeil is more abstract, allowing the material to be itself.
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Linda MacNeil was born on April 14,1954, in Framingham, Massachusetts.
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Linda MacNeil received her BFA degree in 1976 from the Rhode Island School of Design.
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Linda MacNeil interned with Japanese American Jeweler, Miye Matsukata at the Haystack Mountain School of Crafts.
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Linda MacNeil was introduced to glass as a medium at the Massachusetts College of Art and Design by her future husband, the glass and metal sculptor Dan Dailey.
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One of the glass making techniques Linda MacNeil employs is lost wax casting with pate de verre to create intricate shapes with great surface detail.
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Linda MacNeil's work was chosen as an example of this technique, which was very popular in the nineteenth century Art Deco movement, by Jeffrey B Snyder in Art Jewelry Today 2.
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Linda MacNeil became a member of the American Jewelry Design Council in 2011.
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Color and its interplay with light is the other major factor in her work and this is why glass takes center stage because Linda MacNeil can manipulate and control its translucence, transparency, reflectivity, color and texture, completely.
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The physical scale of Linda MacNeil works is determined by its relationship with the body.
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Linda MacNeil combines this vintage glass with contemporary glass to create unique jewels.
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Linda MacNeil's work was chosen as an example of this technique, which was very popular in the nineteenth century Art Deco movement, by Jeffrey B Snyder in Art Jewelry Today To create some of her more organic pieces MacNeil has used fritting as a technique that creates bubbles within the glass.