Lourdes Torgersen

Glasswork is based on light. Refractions, shadows, and odd beams of light are influential and decisive on the final results, yet I insist on going beyond just the surface. I’ve started my professional career as a graphic designer. The background on commercial art, allows me to develop my ideas by m…

Lourdes Torgersen is a visual artist who was raised overseas and lives in Houston for the last 10 years. Art has always been an important part of her life. Growing up on Ipanema Beach, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil and being raised by her artist parents, she learned at an early age to explore and express e…

After more than five years of working with expensive art glass, it came naturally to expand now to a new form of expression, using found glass and subsequently making art out of them. As I work with these objects, I become even more fascinated by the way they can be modified, going beyond the mundan…