ERIC HILTON GLASS

28” H x 15”W x 10” D
Sandblasted glass, computer monitor and computer, LED lighting, wood.

Available through the Duncan McClellan Gallery: https://dmglass.com/artists/eric-hilton/

Tides of Time is a collaboration between Eric Hilton and James Allen. It is an exploration of the cycles of nature with which we are all quite familiar - the changing of the seasons, the dance of sun and moon, the rising and falling of the tides. Each season, each sunrise, each sunset, each surging wave upon the beach is at once both familiar and unique, recognized and yet novel. In these scenes we know so well it seems there is an inextricable mingling of the feelings of wonder they invoke and the ways in which our experience of them is both like and unlike all previous encounters. It is in this space of known and unknown that we strive to create our art.

In Tides of Time, Eric has sculpted a glass panel with flowing forms and graceful curves that invite the viewer's gaze on a journey through the abstract landscape of the glass and the ever-changing imagery within. Behind the glass is a computer monitor on which James has created a dynamic panorama of moving images that wind through and around and insinuate themselves into the landscape of the glass. Like the seasons and the tides, these images never repeat themselves exactly, but are constantly generated anew by custom software James developed explicitly for this piece.

Techniques: Sandblasting and custom software.

Composition: Free standing sculpture; images uploaded here show the central panel of the art that is the focus of the piece.

74” H x 25” W x 14” D
Sand carved, slumped, mirrored, water jet cut glass; digital generative imagery; painted maple

Available through Duncan McClellan Gallery

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This is a complex sculpture, one in the Mysterium Series - an on-going collaboration between glass artist Eric Hilton and visual artist James Allen. Eric utilized glass, crystal and mirrored glass in his sculpture. James developed custom software that generates ever changing imagery. The glass work and imagery complement one another through intentional design and serendipitous interplay. The outcome is a sculpture that is both engaging and meditative.

80” H x 24” W x 15” D
Carved glass, painted cherry, video imagery

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Veils of Discovery is a work that grapples with ideas about perception, discovery and narrative. It was created from the artists’ desire to express their wonder for the cosmos we inhabit and the stories we tell about it. Through the work, we seek to explore questions of chaos and order, insight and revelation and the influence of perspective on the stories we tell about our place in the universe in which we dwell.

Veils of Discovery is art made from glass and wood, metal and wire, software and hardware and desire. But its true medium, the essence by which its magic is made manifest, is light. The light of the now and the light of the past. The light of the now shimmers in the glass, reflected, refracted, reformed as fragments of the viewer and the world they inhabit. You can see it as you move, flickering at the edge of your vision- you, and the place where you stand, given back to you from an altered perspective.

And the light of the past emerges in the imagery that floats behind the glass, light captured by the spacefaring lenses of the great observatories of humanity. Light that came to us from distant suns, traveled to this earth and was captured in this artifact. There it is transformed into mysterious veils and landscapes, reflections and flows of intermingled color and form. That light, that very light, is re-emitted and travels to your eye and is the medium of this art and yet it is also the ancient light of a universe in the process of making itself.

And each of these things, the light of the past, the light of the now, the universe and the art are inextrcably linked, but that’s not all- there’s one more piece that makes it all work. You. Because it is only through your eyes, by your act of seeing, by your leap of imagination, that photons are transformed into something more. Transformed into feelings, into ideas, into the stories that we tell ourselves about the past, about the now, about the future that is yet to be.

~~ James Allen

27” H x 14” W x 6” D
Engraved, sandblasted, sagged and polished crystal. The wooden base has interior lighting.

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This sculpture, by visual association, echoes the essence of evolution. Crystal cubes possess engraved and sandblasted images suggesting organic life forms. As the viewer moves, visual overlaps between the cubes are observed of wings, eyes, mountains, the evolving possibilities of life on our planet. The arc rests on the cubic structure. Fragmented glass has been sagged and reformed representing the birth of celestial systems as observed by the Hubble telescope. Illuminated sandblasted panels support the structure.

36” H x 24” W x 8” D
Waterjet cut, sandblasted panel with sagged and dichroic central element.

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Regeneration describes the constant repetition of birth and life. The disc is of sheet glass and waterjet cut and sandblasted to create a rhythm of leaf forms. Central to the disk is the eye of life, ever-watching and always changing from blue to rose, to the gold of the setting sun. Towards the base, tiny spheres sit like seeds waiting for their moment to be born.

11” H x 11”W x 13” D
Mirrored light-box, single pyramid cut, polished and sandblasted.

Available through the Schantz Gallery: https://www.schantzgalleries.com/artists-schantz-galleries#/eric-hilton-glass-artist

A central pyramid, cast and polished, sits within a field of its own reflection. As the viewer encircles the sculpture, pyramids multiply in all directions, giving the illusion of infinite depths. Energy illuminates this secret geometry of the galaxies.

16 H x 16 W x 16 D “

Blown orb, sand-carved and then returned to the furnace and torch to fire-polish the sandblasting, giving it a glistening quality. Made in collaboration with George Kennard, master gaffer at Corning Museum of Glass. This piece was one of the two pieces made at the CMOG event “Bring the Heat”, broadcast on the CMOG YouTube channel with over 22,900 views!

Bring the Heat: Eric Hilton and George Kennard - YouTube

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The excitement of “Inner Glow” came with the merging of techniques between the hot glass process and the cold glass process. George Kennard created two bowl-shaped vessels with colored glass on the interior surface and clear glass on the exterior surface of each vessel. Eric Hilton engraved the bowls in patterns by sandblasting through the color into the clear gather. These vessels were returned to the blowing room and heated to a temperature to accommodate the joining of the two rims into a sphere.

31 x 26 x 7”

Blown vessels, sand-carved and then returned to the furnace, joined at their rims and opened into a disk. Held in metal frame with optical element below.

This is the first of a series of collaborative discs with George Kennard of the Corning Museum of Glass. One of their following disks had over 22K views through the "Bring the Heat" CMOG YouTube channel.
Bring the Heat: Eric Hilton and George Kennard - YouTube

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Born out of fire, “Labyrinthine Pathways” depicts the myriad possibilities of life born from volcanos. This piece was inspired by the Icelandic volcano Geldingadalir, erupting early in 2021. There were live cameras videoing the lava flowing from the mountain for weeks, and Eric Hilton watched the footage for hours and hours, the channels of molten lava finding pathways down the slopes of the mountain. Our volcanic mountains birth new ground, and the micro-organisms and ancient lichens and fungi begin to break the rock into soils which can then maintain life for a series of plants who add and subtract nutrients, making ground available for other plants to move in. There is a spaciousness of time to this process, happening over millennia. The red of fire leads to the life-sustaining green of our planet, and at its base, one crystal element, the element of water. Each element essential to the biomes of our Earth.

39” H x 17.5” W x 16” D
Sand carved glass, dichroic glass, polished glass spheres, painted maple base with aluminum frame.  

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35” H x 28” W x 14” D
Waterjet cut and polished glass with blown, sandblasted central element in sculptural metal frame.

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“Seeded Evolution” is a galaxy all its own. We find a world in the central blown form, and with the slightest movement of our own heads, the seeds or cells within move in concert. The lens in the center is the eye of time, and we can interpret the billions of years of evolution of our galaxy. One of light's characteristic properties is that, in a transparent medium like air, glass, or still water, it travels in a straight line. Hilton has represented this in the straight and angled lines surrounding the orb, following his fascination with light and time. With the technologies of space telescopes, new mysteries are always being discovered as we see light from the birth or death of stars from millions of years ago, with their light just now meeting our lens. We are looking into the past, into a time before humans existed, and feeling all that has come before us, feeling the hair’s breadth of humanity on an unfathomable scale.

11 H x 10 W x 10 D “

Cut, polished, sandblasted and assembled crystal on a painted maple base.

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“Cosmic Nucleus” represents the minutiae which creates all life. In biology, the nucleus is the center of the cell, the membrane which houses the genetic material of creation. In botany, the nucleus is the seed, the nut, the beginning, within which is the life force reaching through the particles of soil toward the heat of the surface, the light of the sun. In astronomy, the nucleus is the brightest part of the galaxy, the place where new stars are born.

In this piece, there are repeating patterns of cell-like forms or bubbles, repeating and transcending themselves depending on which angle our eyes meet them. We look through cell upon cell, finding them expansive or in miniature. Cosmic Nucleus is an homage to the vital force of beginnings, the spark of original blueprint which both makes us unique and unites us with all that IS, from the microscopic to the cosmic.

34” H x 19” W x 13” D
Cut, polished and assembled crystal elements held by an aluminum base.

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65” H x 24” W x 15” D
Cut, polished and assembled sandblasted crystal with dichroic central element. Held in aluminum structure.

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16 H x 11 W x 11 D “
Cut, sand-carved and polished crystal cubes, sagged glass wave inside a mirrored box with wooden base, interiorly lit.

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Our water planet, its oceans and seas are the taproot of life on earth. A cast wave rests within a mirrored container. This allows the wave to multiply into the illusion of an ocean which moves beyond physical boundaries into the depths of space. Cubic forms, engraved and sandblasted, rest above the wave. The imagery describes the evolution by visual suggestion of the beginning hundreds of millions of years ago of the first rhythms of life. There is an interplay as images within the cubes overlap each other suggesting an evolutionary process.

“Oceans Deep” is a cast glass wave sitting on top of the first part of the wooden base, interiorly lit to help the wave glow from within. Two-way mirrors sit around the wave. The wooden top creates stability between these mirrored walls and the upper part of the piece, composed of 4 cut and polished crystal cubes, each engraved with sandblasting/hand-engraved processes.

22” H x 15” W x 12” D
Cut, sagged, polished crystal and glass, with dichroic central sandblasted element, with turned wood base.

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Within a glass disc sits an assemblage of shards, creating a halo of light encircling a central casting. Light values within the dichroic form change from blue to purple to gold, depending on the viewing position. The lens at its heart is a portal to an inner world.

5 1/2” Diameter
Blown and Sandblasted Orbs.

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Collaboration with Hot Glass Artist George Kennard.

48” H x 13” W x 10” D
Cut, polished and assembled crystal with dichroic element, held by granite and aluminum base.

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18” H x 31” W x 28” D
Carved glass, optical elements and cherry wood.

Available through the Schantz Gallery: https://www.schantzgalleries.com/artists-schantz-galleries#/eric-hilton-glass-artist

12” H x 22” W x 22” D
Carved glass & cast crystal, with wooden base.

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24 H x 18 W x 6 D “
Water-jet cut, sandblasted, sagged, cut, and polished glass. The “eye” has a dichroic filter which, when lit, glows blue.

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“Winter’s Eye” is a visual interpretation of the dynamism of nature in the grip of winter. Focused at its heart is the cold gaze of winter surrounded by ice. The triangular central element is encompassed by spiraling energy. Winter in the north locks us into a frozen landscape- icy spines on every branch, water swirls until it is caught in crystalline motion. This dormancy gives us the chance to dream, to create, to look within and reflect. This is the time for seeds to gestate, both in the Earth and in ourselves, to prepare for our emergence!

12 H x 12 W x 12 D “

Prismatic structure engraved, sandblasted, sagged, with painted maple base.

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There are human-made mysteries of the past. There are nature-created mysteries all around us, and discoveries being made to make scientific sense of them. And then, there is the magic of our own imaginations. “Pyramid Mysteries” takes us into that magic. The imagination of each person looking at it will be different from the next. Our individual lifetimes and experiences create a ground for our interpretation. Imagination is taproot for our conscious evolution as human beings, and as we allow our minds to soften into the illusions and rainbows, the abstract becomes a path to de-code our inner selves.

30” H x 21” W x 21” D
Cut, Polished, Sagged and Sand-carved crystal with optical elements on a wood base.

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As a symbol of powerful energy, a large crystal prism rises from the Northern reaches of our planet. Engraved on one face are lenses which show a miniature encapsulation of their environment. A matrix of tiny lenses echo the interconnections of our natural world. A sculpted block representing ice rests at the base of the prism which stands on a polished disc with a multitude of stars in the mists of time. The base holds blown spheres floating on its deeply sandblasted surface.

25” H x 14” W x 8” D
Cut, polished and assembled crystal with dichroic central element. Aluminum and wood base.

SOLD through the Duncan McClellan Gallery, St. Petersburg, FL

A tangle of seemingly intertwining shapes encircle a sculptured disc at the heart of this work. The center symbolizes a feeling of complex energy as the viewer enters the central eye, which becomes a portal into other worlds. The form rises from two inverted crystal cones which express mysterious engravings, perhaps echoing ancient communication.

27” H x 16” W x 9” D
Cut, polished and assembled crystal with dichroic central element held in an aluminum and granite base.

SOLD through Duncan McClellan Gallery, St. Petersburg, FL

36” H x 36” W
Cut, carved and polished crystal.
Video installation.

SOLD through the Duncan McClellan Gallery, St. Petersburg FL

The first of a digital collaborative Mysterium series between Eric Hilton and digital artist James Allen.

Eric Hilton creates large scale installations as well as sculpture, using techniques involving elaborate designs which are sandblasted into glass. These intricate patterns are often paired with stainless steel and precious woods to become dramatic artistic and architectural statements.

In this piece, Eric Hilton collaborates with James Allen, whose programmed video effects give additional contemporary dimensions to certain installation works.

SOLD through the Duncan McClellan Gallery, St. Petersburg FL

20” H x 13” W x 13" D

SOLD through the Schantz Gallery in Stockbridge, MA.

A large blown and sandblasted orb represents the geometric complexity of the bees nest in which new life awaits birth. There is a visual interplay between the front and rear of the orb, an illusion of the vastness of cosmic space between the surfaces. A miniature orb ascends as an emerging new life force. The base from which the sculpture rises is a cut, polished, and sagged cone. At its center is a textured hole resembling a volcanic element, representing the synchronicity between life and death.

Integration of work between Paul Stankard and Eric Hilton.

SOLD through the Schantz Gallery in Stockbridge, MA.