Elaine Gleason

Elaine Gleason designs and constructs striking lighting fixtures for traditional and contemporary home and commercial settings. These sculptures are inspired by the ambiance and rhythms of her native New Orleans.

For the past eighteen years, Gleason has focused her creative energy on the design and manufacture of metal furniture and lighting fixtures in New Orleans at her studio, Bywater Metal Art. Her designs are evocative of the nature and culture around her: the classic architecture, indigenous music, and lush foliage that saturates this unique city. Gleason studied art at the University of Arizona and received her BFA with a focus on sculpture from the University of Georgia.

Gleason's art has been shown at the New Orleans Jazz Fest, Art in Bloom at the New Orleans Museum of Art, D.O.C.S. Gallery, New Orleans Academy of Fine Art, Philadelphia Rosen Show, New York International Gift Show, Atlanta International Gift Show, and High Point Furniture Show.