The Dancing Ladies: a mixed-media work by Tuck Contreras

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FURNITURE ART:

Mirror in Fused Glass

* The Dancing Ladies

Historic Celilo Falls

Stereo cabinet with bamboo doors

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Glass River

& RELATED Mixed-Media Art Projects (also combining art glass and copper):

Sunflower in Glass

project: The Dancing Ladies

The Dancing Ladies, a work in art glass, copper and wood, 42 x 36 in.

The Dancing Ladies is a four-panel folding screen designed to cover a large flat-screen television. The screen opens from the center, and was commissioned by the Nisley family to conceal and protect the TV mounted over the fireplace in their living-room. Tuck completed and installed the mixed-media piece in Fall 2007.

Close-up view of the first set of folding panels (on left) of The Dancing Ladies.

Close-up view of the second set of folding panels (on right) of The Dancing Ladies.

The Dancing Ladies, installed. The custom cabinetry, surrounding the fireplace, is also Tuck’s creation.

As always, Tuck’s inspiration for The Dancing Ladies came from small pleasures in daily life — a seemingly ordinary occurrence that can hold extraordinary meaning for each of us.

With its mixture of glass, copper & wood, The Dancing Ladies achieves a dynamic play of light and color that follows the time of day and changing seasons in the Nisley living-room. Beyond this, it captures a poetic mood first experienced in an otherwise prosaic part of the house — the home office.

Eric Nisley’s office window overlooks his daughter’s playground, flanked by magnificent old oak trees that shimmer & sway in the breezes like dancing ladies when the light falls just right.

So the starting metaphor was always Eric’s.

Tuck’s The Dancing Ladies just gave it new life.

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