A close up of artist Henry Gross making a star pendant out of glass. He is holding to glass rods, which have formed a small star at the center, over the flame of a tabletop propane torch.

Tucked behind Sawhorse gallery in Belmont Gardens—just west of Logan Square—Henry Gross makes tiny marvels out of glass. A carafe and cup set with an alien-green ring around them. An impossibly delicate translucent lavender handbell. A palm-sized perfume dauber. And countless star- and plus-shaped pendants in an array of colors. Gross Glassgross.glassinstagram.com/gross.glass_ Gross’s practice probably […]

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