The Third Rooom is a gallery. Alongside the work of its founders, it carries work by other artists whose pieces belong in the same room. This week we want to introduce one series in full: the Rose Petal Vases by Alex Krueger.
There are seven. Each is a single handblown vessel in its own color and its own silhouette, and each carries clear glass petals on its surface. Some petals curl away from the body. Some lie flat against it. Some are only an outline, pressed into the glass like an impression left in soft clay.
About the artist
Alex Krueger is a Brooklyn-based artist who has worked in glass for nearly twenty years. He started in high school and went on to study glass at Bowling Green State University. His work has been shown at the Chrysler Museum of Art, where he held a residency and a solo exhibition in 2025, and at galleries in Chicago, Michigan and Hong Kong. He has taught at UrbanGlass, Brooklyn Glass and Firebird Community Arts, and in 2026 he was an Artist-in-Residence at The Studio of The Corning Museum of Glass.
A rose, at seven moments
Seen together, the series reads like one flower over time. The colors move from pale blush to full rose, through warm orange, and out into cream, taupe, gray and near-black. The petals move too: gathered at the mouth on one piece, drifting down the side on another, resting at the foot on a third.
That is what holds our attention. Glass is fixed the moment it cools, and these pieces use that to keep hold of something that does not last: the instant a petal lets go.
The seven
- Blossom. The smallest, low and rounded in pale blush, with two clear petals sweeping up its side. A piece for a shelf or a bedside.
- Peony. A full, egg-shaped body in rose pink deepening to garnet at the neck. The most saturated of the seven, a bloom at its fullest.
- Persimmon. Burnt orange that seems lit from inside, with a tilted lip and one petal sliding down the neck. The warmest piece.
- Linen. The tallest, a long-necked bottle form in soft cream, with sage-tinted petals gathered at the shoulders like a collar.
- Mink. Warm taupe rising into a dark chocolate neck, with two petals folded upward at the shoulders.
- Fog. An off-center ovoid in pale, even gray. Petals trail from the rim and catch light along their edges. The quietest piece.
- Graphite. A near-black neck over a smoke-gray body, one petal lifted like a wing and others at rest around the foot. The most architectural.
Living with one
These are large vessels, most between sixteen and eighteen inches tall, and they do not need flowers. Each already holds its own. Give one a surface to itself and some daylight: the clear petals pick up light at their edges, and the body color shifts through the day.
A single branch works if you want one. So does nothing at all.
Seeing the series
Each vase is handblown and one of a kind. All seven are in stock, and there is one of each. Prices run from $2,800 to $3,800. The full series is in the Alex Krueger collection.
For exact dimensions or more images of a particular piece, write to us at info@thethirdrooom.com.
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