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Larry Zgoda creates original art in stained glass. Anticipating a cultural renaissance of ornament in architecture, he sees this medium as one answer to that need. While his designs often echo the line, pattern, and color of their intended environments, his compositions emerge from a confluence of architectural geometry and the sinuous, organic contours of nature. His manifesto, “Genuine and permanent beauty in the built environment”, declares lasting beauty a fundamental value in human works, both past and present. Knowing how today’s fashion may well “look dated in a decade”, he chooses to create art that will endure because its roots lie in natural and organic form. Though variously abstract, his work rejects the facile pastiches and shallow solipsisms of the postmodern. It seeks instead, through archetypal forms, some vestige of the timeless and sacred for a secular age. His freestanding pieces often yield the aura of a tabernacle or small sanctum.

For our own pages, we’ve framed these works tightly, but when placed in the domestic and architectural surround, their dimensions magically enlarge. As light shifts subtly through the passage of each day, they deepen and enrich those spaces where we live and work, offering repeated, unexpected moments of quiet joy and transcendence.

Beside Larry Zgoda’s window glass, our selections include his hanging panels and freestanding “architonomous” works. You may view more examples, as well as the artist’s aesthetic philosophy, at larryzgodastudio.com