The universe of the art of Jill Casty is constantly expanding. The diverse spectrum of her always colorful work has ranged from monumental sculptures and graceful mobiles to large-scale series of aerial art – for public spaces, civic and commercial.

And now she has turned as well to the color-rich expressiveness of unique and powerful glass fusions – blending this dramatic glass art in ensembles with the power and energy of a variety of metals. These ensembles are wall and standing sculptures, moderate in size, on an intimate scale. They are created for interior spaces, terraces and gardens, residential and public. And in a new series, single independent painterly panels of fused glass are floated in a framework of varied sculptural open-work metals.

The art for public sites enlivens and humanizes large public spaces, bringing a sense of celebration and grace to an everyday public experience. The sculptures use a variety of metals;  the aerial art employs combinations of materials – metals, Plexiglas, glass itself.

Her current work in glass has been called “painterly,” using glass fusions as a painter uses a brush to create rhythms, textures, flowing fields and forms of color. This expressive, bold, exuberant glass is joined to an equally expressive shaping of the metals — from sculptural echoes of the dramatic flow and sweep in the canvases of expressionist painters to the lyrical angles and rhythms of contemporary geometric art.