Andy Paiko

Andy Paiko is an American glass sculptor. He co-founded Central Coast Glass Artist Studio in 2002, was named Searchlight Artist 2008 by the American Craft Council, and was selected for the Smithsonian [American Art Museum] and Renwick Gallery's 2012 exhibition 40 under 40: Craft Futures.

Career

Paiko works without assistants and is largely self-taught. Characteristic works are antiquarian style glass bell jars containing obscure or extravagant artifacts, or sculpted glass celebrations of obsolete technologies reinterpreted, such as a functional seismograph based on a design by Leonardo da Vinci, an actual size, fully operable Spinning Wheel, and an array of 31 automated singing bowls of various sizes, created as a room-sized musical installation in collaboration with composer Ethan Rose. His work was discovered and became abruptly influential through a series of feature layouts in House & Garden, with depictions of Paiko's Absinthe fountain and other glass works amid Victorian ruin. Several of Paiko's works are visible on display in Portland [City Hall (Oregon)|Portland City Hall] during scenes of the television series Portlandia episode Mayor is Missing.