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When we met in early October, the fandom had followed her to the esteemed Corning Museum of Glass (CMoG) in Corning, New York, where she was in the midst of creating new work. She recounted that a large group of women recently stopped her, and one insisted that the artist sign her chest (Czeresko reluctantly agreed). “It’s kind of amazing,” Czeresko said, reflecting on the minor stardom that’s causing New Yorkers to lovingly accost her.

Viewers were inspired by seeing a strong creative woman dominate the competition while articulating a feminist, inclusive message. Some contestants and Twitter users were peeved by Czeresko’s unbridled passion she could be counted on for candid, frustrated outbursts or gleeful declarations of pride. Her pièce de résistance was an installation for the finale: a feminist take on breakfast, including a fecund fried egg and a chandelier of sausage links. Asked to make botanicals, she procured a set of oddly poetic potatoes summoned to imagine a futuristic robotic device, she fashioned the Man-Bun in the Oven, an external womb for men to wear to gestate and during a food challenge, she managed to make tacos appear über-elegant through a set of Venetian-style dishes. And while some contestants in the show’s first season crumbled under challenges that required conceptual depth, Czeresko thrived. In a similar vein to Project Runway or Top Chef, Blown Away gathers glass artists to compete in creating innovative artworks.

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Czeresko was the winner, and runaway star, of the streaming giant’s recent reality competition series Blown Away.

Yet the New York–based artist Deborah Czeresko-who you’ve likely not heard of-can hardly leave her Lower East Side apartment without being recognized. It’s rare for a visual artist to have the sort of celebrity that compels strangers to stop them on the street.

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