A Biography of Our Sun (PDF)

Laura Pesce is a visual artist specializing in glass sculpture. She graduated from the University of Arizona in art history and art studies. After graduation, she chose studio work over an academic carrier, and specializing mostly in contemporary glass sculptures and mixed media installations. Currently her work is shown in a number of museums and galleries throughout Europe and the Americas.


Museums:

Palazzo blù, museum of contemporary art, Pisa, Italy

Complesso museale di Badia a Isola, Siena, Italy,

Palazzo Strozzi, Firenze, Italy

Fortezza da Basso, Firenze, Italy

University museum of Utrecht, Holland (The beauty of Mathematics)

Tohono Chul, Folk Art Museum, Arizona, USA

Museum of Fine Arts, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil (Art and Science)

Centro Cultural Laurinda Santos Lobos, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.

Biennale di Firenze, Fortezza da Basso, Firenze, Italy




Galleries:

Glass Gallery, Bethesda, Maryland, USA

Vespermann gallery, Atlanta, Georgia, USA

Philabaum glass gallery, Tucson, Arizona

Pismo contemporary glass, Denver, Colorado, USA

Faru folk art gallery, Saint Louis, Missouri

Gallery Borgward, Bremen, Germany

Travelling exhibitions for Art and Science: Arezzo, Siena, Firenze.

Others:

Dubai, United Arab Emirates,

For the UNICEF USA

For Art Glass International in Frankfurt, Dusseldorf, Munich, Germany

For Art Glass International, Tucson, Phoenix, Arizona, USA

Saint Louis, Missouri, USA



Her fascination for physics and mathematics was influenced by her husband Thomas Elze, a theoretical physicist, who inspired her to express concepts from physics and astrophysics in visual Art, as also through writing. "Close encounter of Art and Physics, an artist view", is her previous book on this subject, published by Springer in 2019. Laura Pesce lives and works in Tuscany, Italy.