SIMON WARANCH

ARTIST STATEMENT

Simon Waranch is a twenty-one-year old rising artist on the United States glass blowing scene. Avid collectors, gallerists and curators have taken notice. 

Though young of age, his distinctive works are already in the permanent collection of the Longview Museum of Fine Arts in Longview, Texas, as well as the Imagine Museum in St. Petersburg, Florida.

A driven artisan, Simon puts the hours in and pushes himself to create works of art that blend masterful technical skills with an innate aesthetic understanding of design and form. The results are glass pieces that are elegant, sculptural and stirring. 

Born in Dallas, Texas, being an artist came natural for Simon. After exploring a myriad of mediums during his childhood, it was during an overseas trip to Murano, Italy, at the age of 15 while attending the prestigious Booker T Washington High School for the Performing and Visual Arts, that Simon first encountered glass blowing. And it was love at first sight.

Ever since, Simon has been focused on nothing else. He has found his calling. At first, it was glass blowing classes, then apprenticing at a glass studio, working part/full time at the glass studio, attending master glass blowing classes across the United States and in Europe, and currently he is on a full scholarship studying glass in Detroit, Michigan.