About the Artist

Candace Kahn has always loved nature and the outdoors. Growing up on the North Shore of Long Island, NY, she spent her summers in and around the water. As a young mother she and her family lived in rural Virginia in the foothills of the Shenandoah mountains. It was here Candace’s love of horses and the mountains inspired her passion for trail riding and the sport of endurance.

Her discovery of kilnformed glass in the year 2000 awakened another passion. Working with glass fulfills her love of color, light and form she observes in nature. Candace loves the complexity of patterns and the way light either reflects or passes through glass such as can be found when light shimmers through the woods or bounces off the ocean waves.

Candace has studied with several well-known kilnformed glass artists and loves to experiment in her own studios. She has won awards for her work and was a founding member of AMBUS Art, a gallery in Jacksonville, OR.

When asked what inspires her work Candace says, “As I move through life and see beautiful patterns I envision those patterns or designs in glass. When I see the beautiful texture of a cliff wall or the unique pattern of the bark of a tree, I ask myself, ‘How can I recreate that in glass?’ I always want to create unexpected and exciting patterns of glass that I can then use to create vessels and sculptures.”

Candace works exclusively with Bullseye glass in her studios and all works are original and are copyrighted to the artist.

This website and its photographs are the work of Candace Kahn.

Curriculum Vitae

Studios:

Palm Springs, CA (winter)
Lake Tahoe, NV (summer)

Gallery Representation:

Desert Art Center, Palm Springs, California
Artists Center at the Galen, Palm Desert, California

Exhibitions:

2022 Desert Art Center, Palm Springs, CA: DAC Modernism Exhibition
2022 Artists Center at the Galen, Palm Desert, CA: ACE Exhibition
2021 Artists Center at the Galen, Palm Desert, CA: Prime Time Pop-Up Member Gallery Show
2021 Artists Center at the Galen, Palm Desert, CA: NEXUS Exhibition and Sale
2019 Fusion Art: 5th Annual Leaves & Petals Art Exhibition

Honors and Awards:

Sculpture Award for “Enter the Green Room” – 2022 Artists Center at the Galen: ACE Exhibition

Glass Education:

Narcissus Quagliata, Painting With Glass – Transformation, March 2022
Tim Carey, A Painterly Portrait in Glass, August 2021
Nathan Sandberg, Inside Out Flow Vessel, January 2021
Bonnie Celeste, Special Effects, December 2020
Ted Sawyer, Under Pressure, September 2020
Amanda Simmons, Tall Vessels, June 2020
Jessica Loughlin, Mastering Simplicity, June 2019
Nathan Sandberg, Vitrograph Murrine, August 2019
Karl Harmon, The Perfect Vessel, San Francisco Bay Area, August 2018
Richard Parrish, Tapestry: the Integration of Idea, Design, Color, Pattern and Technique, January 2017
Bullseye Glass, Pate De Verre, Los Angeles, CA March 2017
Kari Minnick, The Upper Crust: Magnificent Surfaces and Compelling Layers for Kiln Glass, Los Angeles, CA November 2016
Bullseye Glass, Coldworking Basics, San Francisco Bay Area, August 2016
Newy Fagan, Manipulating Glass, Las Vegas, NV January 2001
UCSD Craft Center, Mold Making, La Jolla, CA December 2000
Gil & Carmen Reynolds, Kiln Casting, San Diego, CA December 2000
Roger V Thomas, Expanding the Glass Palette, Los Angeles, CA September 2000
Kathleen Shepard, Wildlife Art in Fused Glass, San Diego, CA April 2000
Evie Ault, Kiln-formed Glass apprenticeship, Del Mar, CA 2000-2001