Highway Rock Slide
Best of Show 1988 Islip Art Museum
Open Call
In the Permanent Collection of the Islip
Art Museum
“The contrast between natural and
industrial materials, along with the hint
of narrative content in this abstract
work – “Highway Rock Slide” that may
have caused the twisting and the
wedging of the neon tube – add up to
a work of substance and grit.”
Karin Lipson, Newsday: Surprises
Among the Prizes
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Hot Crack from 1983 was the first
"Sandwich" I knew I was on to
something; squeezing neon light
between a split stone. An interesting
juxtaposition of materials.
This beckoning quality is also present
in Mr. Bruschi’s ”Hot Crack,” in which
two stone slabs, held in place by steel
strips, enclose a twisted tube of
glowing neon. This is the show’s most
fascinating work, with its intimation of
violent natural energy contained and
controlled.”
Helen Harrison, New York Times
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Untitled (Brass and Glass Sandwich)
Cast Glass top and fabricated brass
bottom. Selected for the first NY
Glass Biennial at UrbanGlass in 1994
“Don Bruschi to my mind is one of the
few people doing something new with
neon, incorporating all sorts of
materials in his neon “Sandwiches”.
The sandwiches unite casual form with
physicality in opposition to light.”
John Perrault, Catalogue: The Newest
Biennial: Ideas in Glass
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