The four urns in the Boeing Company Gallery were created by David Ruth. Updated photos coming soon...
David Ruth started a small studio for melting glass after college. After graduate school, he melted thick glass castings for sculpture, experimenting with fusing different color formulas within a single glass body. Critically aware of the unique 5000-year history of the material, Ruth pushed the envelope of glass techniques combining de-scaled industrial processes with artistic expression. Cast glass sculptures were produced, swirling colors in thick sections which took weeks and even months, to cool down successfully. Some were quite large for their time, weighing up to 1,500 lbs (700Kg). These pieces were what he called his Internal Life Series, marking the interior of the glass body as a canvas for thought through swirling colors and bubbles trapped inside, revealed through highly polished surfaces.
