Example Images
Fish Bowl
Fish Vase
Golden Poppies
Iris Vase
![’Neath the Waves [detail]](/artwork/hoffman_lise/glass/full/neath_the_waves.jpg)
’Neath the Waves [detail]
’Neath the Waves
Sea Creatures Vase
Whale Vase
Example Artwork
Aloha Dreams II
Hand-carved Glass
Hand-carved Glass
Recent Events
February 2008 First Friday: “Color Me Red”
Join us Friday, February 1st from 5 to 7pm for “Color Me Red”, a multi-media group show exploring the power of the color red.
Preview the Red Show
(Come to the gallery to see more!)
Preview the Red Show
(Come to the gallery to see more!)
November 2006 First Friday: Susan Lindsey, Michele Suchland & Lise Hoffman
November’s show features three artists: oil painter Susan Lindsey, acrylic painter Michele Suchland, and glass carver Lise Hoffman. Susan’s still lifes, garden scenes and portraits show her skill with shape and form, light, and contrast. Michele’s paintings include indoor and outdoor scenes, some including people. Lise creates fabulous sculptured glass vases and bowls, often featuring an Alaskan or floral theme. Join us November 3rd from 5 to 7 pm and meet the artists!
View Lindsey’s Show
View Suchland’s Show
View Lindsey’s Show
View Suchland’s Show
Biography
“Glass is my canvas. Just as every painter carefully chooses a canvas, I select my glass pieces, which incidentally come from all over the world. My favorite subjects tend to be aquatic, but I also carve other wildlife and flowers too.”
Often mistaken for etched glass, the artist stresses that no chemicals are used. The glass is sculptured through a combination of high pressure carving and diamond engraving.
“I got started after seeing a piece of glass art several years ago that so stunned me, I was driven to learn. Through pure stubbornness, I persevered by trial and error until I got it, right. Boy did I ruin a lot of glass in the process, but it was worth it!”
Lise’s work was featured in the University of Alaska Museum’s “Working Inspirations” exhibit in the fall of 1993 and was selected for the national “Glass Act” show at the Galleria Mesa in Arizona in the spring of 1997. She also has an ornament that is part of the national collection in the White House. Her art can currently be seen in several galleries throughout her home state of Alaska.
Lise makes her home in Anchorage with her family. When not carving glass, she is an avid skier, scuba diver, and underwater photographer.
“Glass is my canvas. Just as every painter carefully chooses a canvas, I select my glass pieces, which incidentally come from all over the world. My favorite subjects tend to be aquatic, but I also carve other wildlife and flowers too.”
Often mistaken for etched glass, the artist stresses that no chemicals are used. The glass is sculptured through a combination of high pressure carving and diamond engraving.
“I got started after seeing a piece of glass art several years ago that so stunned me, I was driven to learn. Through pure stubbornness, I persevered by trial and error until I got it, right. Boy did I ruin a lot of glass in the process, but it was worth it!”
Lise’s work was featured in the University of Alaska Museum’s “Working Inspirations” exhibit in the fall of 1993 and was selected for the national “Glass Act” show at the Galleria Mesa in Arizona in the spring of 1997. She also has an ornament that is part of the national collection in the White House. Her art can currently be seen in several galleries throughout her home state of Alaska.
Lise makes her home in Anchorage with her family. When not carving glass, she is an avid skier, scuba diver, and underwater photographer.