Chris Marrs
Chris Marrs, Blue Suede Shoes, 2012
Dallas, Texas
Specializing in hand-blown glass objects ranging from platters and vases to hanging ornaments, this father and son glass artist team has over 20 years experience at various cooperative studio locations in the
Dallas-Fort Worth area, and have been working together continuously for 9 years. Their glass art items exhibit intense pattern work from color spirals, frit and overlays along with hand manipulation using age-old tools and techniques.
Their body of work includes many individual art pieces shown through galleries, exhibits, and studio displays, as well as custom art installations of multiple pieces combined to view as a single art statement. Working currently from a studio in a Dallas “Deep Ellum” basement, hand-blown objects are created within an hour’s time from the beginnings of molten glass in a 2000+ degree furnace to the completed object placed in an annealing kiln to cool slowly overnight. Each work of art is a product of combined efforts of each of the MarrsArt team members, including apprentice Rob Brandenburg with the lead artist, or “Gaffer”, in control of the design.
Chris Marrs earned his degree in Architecture from Texas Tech University in 1996.
Specializing in hand-blown glass objects ranging from platters and vases to hanging ornaments, this father and son glass artist team has over 20 years experience at various cooperative studio locations in the
Dallas-Fort Worth area, and have been working together continuously for 9 years. Their glass art items exhibit intense pattern work from color spirals, frit and overlays along with hand manipulation using age-old tools and techniques.
Their body of work includes many individual art pieces shown through galleries, exhibits, and studio displays, as well as custom art installations of multiple pieces combined to view as a single art statement. Working currently from a studio in a Dallas “Deep Ellum” basement, hand-blown objects are created within an hour’s time from the beginnings of molten glass in a 2000+ degree furnace to the completed object placed in an annealing kiln to cool slowly overnight. Each work of art is a product of combined efforts of each of the MarrsArt team members, including apprentice Rob Brandenburg with the lead artist, or “Gaffer”, in control of the design.
Chris Marrs earned his degree in Architecture from Texas Tech University in 1996.
