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Mary Van Cline has been working as an artist since 1972. The following images represent some of her earliest sculptures, from 1972 through 1990. Please see the Artwork and Publications pages for more images.

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"Prism in Motion"
1980

Cast and fabricated glass
8 x 12 x 7 in.

     
  "Untitled"
1980

Cast and fabricated glass
6 x 9 x 7 in.
     
  "Untitled"
1980

Cast and fabricated glass
22 x 10 x 10 in.
     
 

"Supported Covenant"
1981

Cast and fabricated glass

Collection of George and Dorothy Saxe

     
  1981
Pate de verre
     
  "Japanese Footbridge"
1982

Pate de verre
     
  "Suspension Bridge Series"
1982

Pate de verre
     
  "Suspension Bridge Series"
1982

Pate de verre
     
  "Suspension Bridge Series"
1982

Pate de verre
     
  "Suspension Bridge Series"
1982

Pate de verre
     
  "Suspension Bridge Series"
1982

Pate de verre
     
  "Reflected Repetition"
1982

Laminated plate glass, acid etched glass, polished lead glass
14 x 12 x 13 in.
     
  "Good Morning Heartache"
1982

Photosensitive glass, fabricated glass
     
 

"What You Hear in the Dark You Must Speak in the Light"
1983

Photosensitive glass, fabricated glass
13 x 16 x 15 in.

Collection of the Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, PA

     
 

"Dusk at the Tobin Bridge"
1983

Collection of Elmerina and Paul Parkman

     
  1983
     
 

"Whispers from a Timeless Peace Beyond"
1983

Photosensitive glass, fabricated glass
13 x 16 x 15 in.

     
  1983
     
  "The Balance Just Beyond"
1983
     
  "The Enigma of Time"
1983
     
  "The Whispered Call"
1983
     
 

"The Feeling of Direction"
1984

Photosensitive glass, laminated glass, vitrolite, flameworking, colored pencil
17 x 12 x 8 in.

Collection of the Museum of American Glass, Millivlle, NJ

     
 

"Exit to the Room of Voices"
1984

Cast neodymium glass, cut Vitrolite glass, photosensitive glass block, flameworked ladder, paint
20 x 9 x 9 in.

Collection of the Corning Museum of Glass, Corning, NY

     
  "A Pointless Situation"
1984

Photosensitive glass, laminated glass, airbrushed
24 x 10 x 6 in.
     
  "The Illusion of Expectation"
1984

Photosensitive glass, wood, paint
32 x 12 x 6 in.
     
  "The Illusion of Expectation"
1984

Photosensitive glass, wood, paint
32 x 12 x 6 in.
     
  "Directional Winds"
1984
     
  "Emptiness Upon Perfection"
1984

Photosensitive glass, cast glass, wood
28 x 12 x 10 in.
     
  "Directional Time Flow"
1985

Photosensitive glass, paint, wood, sandblasting
18 x 30 x 25 in.
     
  "The Illusion of Linear Barriers"
1985

Photosensitive glass, torched wood, paint, sandblasting
15 x 24 x 6 in.
     
  "Unbearable Lightness of Being"
1985
     
 

"The Image of Time in Jung's Dream"
1986

Photosensitive glass, torched wood, paint, sandblasting
27 x 14 x 5 in.

Collection of the GlasMuseum, Ebeltoft, Denmark

     
 

From "The Healing Series"
1986

Photosensitive glass, neon, wood, paint
20 x 30 x 29 in.

     
 

From "The Healing Series Part 2"
1987

Photosensitive glass, neon, wood
42 x 19 x 6 in.

Collection of the Detroit Institute for the Arts

     
 

From "The Healing Series Part 1"
1987

Photosensitive glass, wood, paint
27 x 19 x 8 in.

Collection of George and Dorothy Saxe

     
 

From "The Healing Series Part 1"
1987

Photosensitive glass, painted wood
42 x 18 x 15 in.

Collection of Ronald D. Abramson

     
  From "The Healing Series"
1988

Photosensitive glass block, copper-leafed and painted wood
48 x 30 x 18 in.
     
  1988
     
 

"Greek Vase Series"
1988

Photosensitive glass, copper leafed glass, wood
14 x 10 x 4 in.

     
 

From "The Healing Series"
1988

Photosensitive glass, copper leafed glass, wood
16 x 11 x 3.5 in.

     
  "Greek Vase Series"
1988
     
  "Greek Vase Series"
1988
     
  "Greek Vase Series"
1988
     
 

"Installation"
1988

Sandblasted glass, neon, wood

     
 

"Installation"
1988

Neon, wood, plate glass
8 ft high

     
  From "The Healing Series"
1988

Photosensitive glass, neon, wood, sandblasting
36 x 30 x 9 in.
     
  From "The Healing Series"
1988

Photosensitive glass, wood, paint
18 x 24 x 5 in.
     
  "The Healing Passages of Time"
1988

Photosensitive glass, sandblasted glass, painted wood
60 x 36 x 24 in.
     
  "The Healing Passages of Time"
1988

50 x 32 x 18 in.
     
  1989
     
  1989
     
  1989
     
  1989
     
  "The Balance of Time"
1989

Photosensitive glass, reverse painting on glass, blown glass
40 x 22 x 15 in.
     
  "The Healing Passages of Time"
1990

Photosensitive glass, sandblasted glass, wood
55 x 48 x 24 in.
     
 

"Restful Nature of Time"
1990

Photosensitive glass, reverse painting on glass
Actual lifesize scale

     
  "Chair"
1990

Reverse painting on glass, photosensitive glass
Actual lifesize scale