Our artists create a range of works, not all of which are shown on this page.
Please inquire if you don’t see what you are looking for.


Blue Treehead
SOLD

Amber Hanging Female
Representative Work

Desert Sunset
Representative Work

Ivory Figure
Representative Work

Large Blue Male Figure
Representative Work

Blue & Amber Angel
Representative Work

Humanity
SOLD

Fire & Water

Solitude

Hanging Figure in Speckled Red

Suspended Figure in Cobalt

Mother Nature

Crown Heads
Representative Work

Rising

Suspended Figure in Aqua and Garnet

Red & Amber Angel
Representative Work
Alexis is a renowned glass artist who has worked in top glass schools, including the famous Pilchuck Glass School. Born in Seattle in 1983, Alexis moved to Berkeley California when she was 10 years old. In 2001 she entered the School of the Art Institute of Chicago (SAIC) . She quickly identified sculpture as her passion with a focus in foundry. In addition to working at SAIC in cast bronze, she traveled to distant foundries to explore the more extreme process of working in cast iron. In 2004 she spent six months living, studying sculpture, and learning to fire dance in Madrid, Spain; it was an experience that was both exhilarating and profoundly expanding.
After returning from Spain, Alexis discovered glass-blowing and took to it like a fish to water. Her introduction was at Ox-Bow Art School in Saugatuck Michigan working with glass artist Jerry Catania. Working independently at Chicago Hot Glass and at Pilchuck Glass School with Boyd Sugiki she developed her glassblowing skills. Meanwhile, at Pilchuck Glass School, she was exposed to the sculptural work of Pino Signoretto and was instantly inspired by it. It offered a perfect intersection of her passion for working in hot glass, her life-long fascination with the human figure, and her desire for conceptual expression in her work.
After receiving her BFA in 2005, Alexis formed Noga Silk Art Glass with her partner Andrew Noga. In 2006 they moved to the Bay Area, California, and in 2008 moved to Alexis’s current location in Energy, Illinois. In 2009, as their work diverged, Alexis and Andrew split their business and Alexis continued working as simply Alexis Silk. Today she has work in galleries, museums and private and corporate collections around the country. She continues to define the frontier of conceptual expression in figurative hot sculpted glass.
Alexis Silk is a student of human form. She combines her knowledge of anatomy with her passion for fire to create female and male figures in cast metal and blown or solid glass. Her glass figures are sculpted free-hand while the glass is hot, without the use of molds. Many works incorporate steel frames or bases fabricated by the artist; some include found industrial hooks. While making intrinsically beautiful objects, the artist also targets issues of human nature, society, and the interrelationship of humans, nature and industry. Her work particularly explores objectification, body stereotypes, perceptual boxes, and sexuality as strength. Alexis received her BFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago in 2005. Since then she has continued to study under glass masters such as Pino Signoretto, Richard Royal and Boyd Sugiki. Since 2006 she has been working full time as an artist. Thanks to skills gained at Pilchuck Glass School and all places she gained experience, plus her own effort, her work is exhibited in galleries and fine art shows across the country.
Download Resume