Client Belief

Keke Cribbs is one of the most famous artists that use glass to create artworks. She interest in Buddhist philosophies, and this is one of the most impact element for her artworks and creativity. She usually likes to use flat glass to create three-dimension glass artwork and decorates with fired enamels. She started this style since 1995 because she likes to paint on glass and cut the painting into parts for mosaics and create sculpture, also she thinks her galleries were not interested in showing two-dimensional works. Moreover, she also likes to use mixed media on her art works. In recently, she started to create wood sculpture with fabrics, metals, mirror, glass, papers, pearls, and etc.

          According to her interviews from website and artworks, she prefers antique style, not modern style for her gallery, studio, and residence. For her studio, she does not need blow molding machine, but she needs sandblast machine for her glass arts because she create her glasswork from flat glass. Moreover, she need sewing machine, metal cutter, and at least 3 separate working space with basic equipment for cutting, drawing, and painting.  In the gallery, she needs both pedestals and hanging walls, because she is doing both sculpture and paint, also in the gallery space, it would be better to use soft warm color light, not strong white spot light. The natural light also can be a good light source for showing her art works. In the residence, she does not need a huge space, because the house is only for her.

          Her art-style fits on this adaptive reuse of historic building, which is the project that we are doing. She like the antique style, and her art works is also antique style. Thus, in the design of the interior, the building can keep it old style; have not to change a lot of the atmosphere.  Only things that will be changing are the entire space will use the Universal design, and friendly for visual disability and accessibility people such as use the strong contrast color, and wheelchair accessible. Once this information is researched and gathered, the greater the possibility for functional success within the design.