Samara Chandelier by Lorin Silverman. Hand-blown, hot-sculpted opaline glass canopy, large rippled reflector and morel shades. Photo courtesy Donzella Ltd.




Lorin Silverman Dreams Big in Glass



by Benjamin Genocchio



REFRACTIONS is glass artist Lorin Silverman's first solo exhibition at Donzella Ltd. gallery in New York. It brings together examples of his earliest minimalist chandeliers and lights with newer works notable for their color and impressive scale. 


Silverman is a New York City native who dreamed of being an artist since childhood. His interest in glassblowing began at age 12 at UrbanGlass in Brooklyn, where he keeps his own studio to this day. Technical virtuosity in his medium is a given, something he has built on to create his signature organic, painterly-colored glass chandeliers, sconces, and floor lamps.




Left: Iridescence, luminescence, the play of light on dimpled surfaces, and exquisite, juicy color, this piece has it all. The Waterfall Chandelier by Lorin Silverman. Photo courtesy Donzella Ltd. Right: Samara  Long chandelier by Lorin Silverman. A romantic, graceful cascade of verdigris tendrils, whorled morel diffusers and rippled reflectors. Photo by Josh Gaddy



The show includes 16 hand-blown works — nine new sculptural lighting pieces encompassing chandeliers, pendants, sconces, and a floor lamp. Purely functional lighting gives way in the new pieces to expressive, one-of-a-kind sculptures that gesture towards artistic reflections of form, color, and movement.



Moon Pistil light sculpture by Lorin Silverman. The twinkling night sky captured in glass. Photo courtesy Donzella Ltd.



The artist describes the inspiration behind his work as a search to crystallize in molten glass “stark, fleeting moments of movement, texture, and optical play.” The results are expressive, playful forms rendered in vivid, painterly colors with rippling surfaces that refract light while evoking imagery of water, sunsets, flowers, dramatic cloudy skies, and other natural phenomena that you can’t quite put your finger on. But nature definitely comes to mind, in all its glorious, colorful splendor.



Radiant Lily Chandelier by Lorin Silverman. Five hand-blown clear-to-white fade reflectors with pink hot-sculpted morel shades, ringing around a cluster of creamy off-white morel shades. Patinated brass frame. Photo courtesy Donzella Ltd.



Lorin Silverman: REFRACTIONS

October 16 – November 21, 2025

Donzella Project Space, The New York Design Center, 200 Lexington Avenue, Suite 1509, New York