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My sculptures are abstract assemblages comprised of sets of optical crystal which I generate using a process known in the glass world as cold working. Cold working involves the cutting, carving, polishing and Laminating of solid pieces of glass.

  I add color and pattern into the work by painting within laminations. This results in the projection of the image across the sculpture's interior surface according to the laminations placement, the sculptures shape and level of polish. In painting becomes an interior, sometimes whole, often distorted or disappearing entirely according to the viewers vantage point and the geometry of the sculpture.

  These abstract assemblage function as modulators of light, resulting in three dimensional fields of color, pattern and reflection, which shift and change as the viewer moves around the piece.

  This evolving body of work represents inspiration I find in landscapes, living structures, and the history or time inherent in them. They engender an ethereal character, which call into question notions of form and content along rhythmic lines of tension and balance  

Steven Eisenhauer's glass sculpture has generated interest in the form of commissions, a newspaper article and showings in 1999. His sculpture was on hand for the turning of the millennium in downtown Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania as part of the city's First Night New Year's celebration.

  His work can be seen in numerous galleries across the country as well as at the Morgan Contemporary Glass Gallery in Pittsburgh, PA. Eisenhauer has involved himself in collaborative works with other artists and is a member of the Associated Artists of Pittsburgh. He also does part time work at the Carnegie Museum of Art assisting with installations.

  Steven Eisenhauer was born in Springfield, Massachusetts in 1958. He earned his BFA from the school of Art and Design at Alfred State College of Ceramics at Alfred University in 1982. He studied printmaking and sculpture, wherein he gained skills in woodworking, bronze casting, steel fabrication and glass working.

  "River Walk" 1999 Light sculpture commissioned by First Night, Pittsburgh, Inc.

  Steven Eisenhauer (Sculptor) Artist's Statement

  "River Walk" is a light sculpture that revolves around the notion of a river as a living system. Beginning from its inception as a drawing to its realization in glass, steel and light, it transcribes notions of landscape, living forms and water as It undulates through space horizontally, describing both strength and fragility. Its tone and color reflect intimacy, hope and a reverence for the mystery of transformation.

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