Rick Eggert’s multi award-winning blown glass seem to lean toward natural elements. Although static, his grouped creations simulate the motion of nature often featuring the fluid movement of fire or water.
His childhood was spent in Southampton, New York where he was born in 1974. He later moved to Vermont, where in 1992 he began working in glass. His quest to accomplish inner growth has led him to exotic and faraway places like Morea in Tahiti, New Zealand, Australia, and Thailand. In 2014, Rick joined forces with Benzaiten Centre for Creative Arts in Lake Worth, Florida to start their glass program and remains heavily involved as their Creative Director and Glass Studio Director.
Rick’s work explores notions of creation and the perception of evolution. His creative groupings and installations use the concept of change, growth, and time to illustrate the way universal creation has become what it now is. They stem from his origins as an animation student so movement has become the predominant visual component in his work. These pieces usually involve some type of progression or graduation. The time element is typically expressed as 'Frozen time' or stages of time. Each piece can be seen as a frame in a movie, changing over time or as one complete organism. Because these sculptures are made of multiple elements, issues of interrelationships come to light whilst always mainting a certain fluidity throughout all his work
The process of working with molten glass lends itself wonderfully. All the forms he uses deal with the elastic characteristics of glass. The way he works is very much a part of the work. “My approach is to be like nature, using mutation and selection to let each work evolve and grow. Sculptures rarely end up as they were originally envisioned”.