ASTRI REUSCH
The art of Astri Reusch has received international recognition since 1979. She is best known for her works in glass and mixed media sculpture, as well as for her architectural and site-specific installations and has also created a large series of thematic paintings. Her works have been exhibited at numerous museums and galleries, including the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, the Smithsonian Institution in Washington, the Corning Museum of Glass, the Victoria and Albert Museum in London, the Musée des Arts Décoratifs in Paris, the Seibu Museum in Tokyo and the Glass Museum of Finland.
Her site-specific and architectural works have been integrated into the public spaces of museums, corporate headquarters and government buildings. She designed and built the monumental sculpture La Débâcle in the main hall of the Musée National de la Civilisation in Quebec City and also created sculptural and glass works in the entrances of the IntelSat Corporation headquarters in Washington DC and a number of cultural centers, corporate headquarters, parks, libraries and schools. Her works are in the collections of the Musée des beaux-arts de Montréal, the Musée des Métiers d’Art du Québec and many other public, corporate and private collections.
She was chosen as Professional Artist-in-Residence at the Pilchuck Glass School in the US and worked there for many years. Her work is documented in numerous publications, including books, films and videos (National Film Board of Canada, Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, and the magazines New Glass Review, Atelier, Glass, Neues Glas among others).
She studied glass casting with Stanislas Libenský and Jaroslava Brychtová at the Pilchuck Glass School and with Gene Koss at Tulane University as well as landscape design at McGill University and fine arts at the École des Beaux-Arts and the Musée des Beaux-Arts in Montreal.
Ms. Reusch was born in British Guiana (now Guyana) in 1945 and passed away in 2016 in Montreal after a long battle with cancer. She continued to create until the end.
