Started working in glass in 1997 at California College of the Arts in Oakland, CA.
www.aurorasculpture.com

Ed Kirshner of Oakland, California was born in New York City in 1940.  He studied architecture and sculpture at Cornell University, the University of California at Berkeley and the Oskar Kokoschka School of Vision in Austria.  After thirty years of developing and financing affordable housing, he returned to study art at the California College of the Arts in Oakland as well as at Pilchuck and Corning glass schools and Northlands Creative Glass in Scotland.  His glass and gas plasma sculptures have been exhibited throughout the U.S. as well as in Taiwan, Japan, Australia, Austria, France, Luxembourg, Switzerland and Turkey. His work, “Cone of Chaos,” was a Corning Glass selection and is included in Corning’s “25 Years of New Glass Review.”

Ed’s plasma sculptures are in the permanent collections of the diRosa Fine Arts Preserve in Napa, California, the Swiss National Science Center, Technorama, near Zurich and the Exploratorium in San Francisco.  He has taught glass and gas plasma workshops in the U.S. as well as in Asia and Europe and is on the faculty of the Crucible Fire Arts School in Oakland and the Glass Furnace in Turkey.  He has also been a Trustee and the Treasurer of the Museum of Neon Art (MONA) in Los Angeles and is currently on its Technical Advisory Board. Recently, Ed was elected to the Board of the Glass Arts Society (GAS).

“Fiery Bowl”
Ed Kirshner
boro flameworking by Bernd Weinmayer
2012
Double walled boro glass bowl with Neon and Xenon gas plasma set in glass light shade on bamboo salad bowl base with electronics inside
15” x 15” x 18”

“Vase with Cup of Chaos”
Ed Kirshner
boro flameworking by Bernd Weinmayer
2004
Double walled boro glass cup with Neon gas plasma set on blown glass vase with electronics inside pedestal base
11” x 11” x 26”