Nisha Bansil

Nisha Bansil is a glass sculptor, artist and educator exploring how remnants of phenomenological events found in nature relate to patterns that become ubiquitous, sacred and divine. Bansil builds devices to render invisible, natural forces, like sound waves and motion, into visual forms in glass.

Bansil is an artist and educator. Splitting her time between the Catskills and NYC she fabricates work for other artists and her studio practice. She has been a resident artist at The Studio of The Corning Museum of Glass, and Bullseye Projects. She has created performance pieces for The Chrysler Museum of Art, and the Corning Museum of Glass. She teaches her techniques to students around the world with various institutions including, The Penland School of Craft, Urban Glass, The Corning Museum of Glass, Pittsburgh Glass, Creative Glas, & The Bullseye Glass Co. Her work has been exhibited nationally and she currently works at The Metropolitan Museum of Art as a conservation mount maker.

www.nishabansilstudio.com | @nishabansil

My practice explores this material using traditional methods and recipes, but, by exposing it to natural forces while it is in different states of matter I create and manipulate artifacts that become a visual lexicon of the patterns created by natural phenomena.

My studio practice is driven by curiosity about how the remnants of phenomenological events found in nature relate to patterns that become ubiquitous, sacred, and divine. I build devices to render invisible natural forces like sound waves and motion into visible forms. Glass as a material lends itself to these investigations because it is neither a solid nor a liquid, naturally occurring, and at the same time a material that is one of the most important and mysterious, yet common materials humans have developed.

Nisha Bansil, Lens 1200Hz, 2018. Cast and cold worked glass, 36 × 8 × 2 inches. Photo by Richard Walker.

Nisha Bansil, Diamond Fold 1, 2017. Cast and cold worked glass, 40 × 12 × 1/2 inches.