The Café on 66

The Café on 66
Emily Brock
1993
Materials
Glass, metal, wire, and paint
Size
15 x 15 x 16 1/2 inches
Racine Art Museum, Gift of Benson and Francine Pilloff
About the artwork.
Emily Brock has been working primarily with glass as her artistic media for over 30 years. Employing a combination of various techniques including fusing, slumping, casting, and lampworking, Brock creates detailed dioramas—sometimes inhabited, sometimes not. The three works in RAM’s collection—including The Café on 66—reflect the care and precision in Brock’s process, as well as a “fairy tale” quality that arises when these spaces are miniaturized and translated into glass.