Drawn to the wide-ranging properties of surface, glass artist Carmen Vetter is inspired by its ability to convey history through touch. Vetter’s fused glass panels are just as likely to suggest aerial views of cities or eroding land as they are to recall glacial ice or cellular structures. “The relationship between these surfaces and the things that underlay them--their unique histories, the unseen events that preceded them and created them, the mystery of what they are becoming--is what truly interests me,” Vetter writes. “I seek the intrinsic.” A rising star of the glass world, Carmen Vetter has been working with kiln-formed glass since 1999. She has served as a guest lecturer at the esteemed Pilchuck Glass School and has been honored with multiple solo-exhibitions over the course of her young career. Vetter lives and works in Portland, Oregon.