Thursday March 28th, 2024 8:33AM

Frabel glass exhibit opening at Suwanee City Hall

By AccessWDUN staff

SUWANEE — Sculptures by Atlanta artist Hans Godo Fräbel, considered one of the founding fathers of modern flame glass art, will be on exhibit at Suwanee City Hall June 19-September 1. This represents the first time that all 14 sculptures in Fräbel’s The Seven Sins and Virtues collection will be exhibited in its entirety.

The artworks will be displayed on both the first and second floors of City Hall and will be available for viewing from 8:00-5:00 Monday-Friday.

The North Gwinnett Arts Association (NGAA) will host an opening reception and artist’s presentation on Thursday, June 25. The reception begins at 5:00 at City Hall; Fräbel, who is an NGAA member, will discuss his training and career as a scientific glassblower-turned-artist and the technique of flamework in the second-floor City Council Chambers beginning at 7 p.m. Both the reception and presentation are open to the public.

Fräbel began his glass career as a scientific glassblower with Jena Glaswerke in Mainz, Germany. In 1965, he took a position in the glassblowing laboratory at Georgia Tech. He studied art at both Emory University and Georgia State University and established the Fräbel Glass Art Studio in Atlanta in 1968.

Fräbel art pieces can be found in public and private collections in more than 80 countries worldwide. Two of Fräbel’s most famous works are Hammer and Nails, which was first exhibited in 1979 at the New Glass Art Exhibition at the Corning Museum of Glass in upstate New York and has been displayed at major museums throughout the world, and the playful, cavorting clowns that were part of the Absolut Vodka advertising campaign in the late 1980s and early 1990s.

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