Josiah McElheny was born in Boston, Massachusetts in 1966, and lives and works in Brooklyn, New York. He received a BFA from the Rhode Island School of Design, and apprenticed with master glassblowers Ronald Wilkins, Jan-Erik Ritzman, Sven-Ake Caarlson, and Lino Tagliapietra. McElheny creates finely crafted, handmade glass objects that he combines with photographs, text, and museological displays to evoke notions of meaning and memory. Whether recreating miraculous glass objects pictured in Renaissance paintings or modernized versions of nonextant glassware from documentary photographs, or extrapolating stories about the daily lives of ancient peoples through the remnants of their glass household possessions, Josiah McElheny뭩 work takes as its subject the object, idea, and social nexus of glass. Influenced by the writings of Jorge Luis Borges, McElheny뭩 work often takes the form of 멻istorical fiction뮉which he offers to the viewer to believe or not. Part of McElheny뭩 fascination with storytelling is that glassmaking is part of an oral tradition handed down generation to generation, artisan to artisan. In "Total Reflective Abstraction" (2003-04), the mirrored works themselves refract the artist뭩 self-reflexive examination. Looking at a reflective object becomes a metaphor for the act of reflecting on an idea. Sculptural models of Modernist ideals, these totally reflective environments are both elegant seductions as well as parables of the vices of utopian aspirations. Recipient of a Louis Comfort Tiffany Foundation Award (1995) and the 15th Rakow Commission from the Corning Museum of Glass, McElheny has had one-person exhibitions at the Henry Art Gallery, Seattle; Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Boston; Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, San Francisco; and Centro Galego de Arte Contempor?ea, Santiago de Compostela. His work has been exhibited at SITE Santa Fe and the Whitney Biennial (2000).
수업시간에 봤었던 유리공예작가 [Josiah McElheny ]이 작품을 보러가기위해 수업이 많은 사람들이 박물관으로 몰려들어 줄을 지었다고 한다. 실제로 너무나 아름답고 우리의 삶의 반복되는 의미들을 유리의 반사를 통한 무한한 연속의 이미지들로 연출하였다. 감동이다. 말이 필요없는 작품이다...
Josiah McElheny 감동의 유리공예작가
Josiah McElheny was born in Boston, Massachusetts in 1966, and lives and works in Brooklyn, New York. He received a BFA from the Rhode Island School of Design, and apprenticed with master glassblowers Ronald Wilkins, Jan-Erik Ritzman, Sven-Ake Caarlson, and Lino Tagliapietra. McElheny creates finely crafted, handmade glass objects that he combines with photographs, text, and museological displays to evoke notions of meaning and memory. Whether recreating miraculous glass objects pictured in Renaissance paintings or modernized versions of nonextant glassware from documentary photographs, or extrapolating stories about the daily lives of ancient peoples through the remnants of their glass household possessions, Josiah McElheny뭩 work takes as its subject the object, idea, and social nexus of glass. Influenced by the writings of Jorge Luis Borges, McElheny뭩 work often takes the form of 멻istorical fiction뮉which he offers to the viewer to believe or not. Part of McElheny뭩 fascination with storytelling is that glassmaking is part of an oral tradition handed down generation to generation, artisan to artisan. In "Total Reflective Abstraction" (2003-04), the mirrored works themselves refract the artist뭩 self-reflexive examination. Looking at a reflective object becomes a metaphor for the act of reflecting on an idea. Sculptural models of Modernist ideals, these totally reflective environments are both elegant seductions as well as parables of the vices of utopian aspirations. Recipient of a Louis Comfort Tiffany Foundation Award (1995) and the 15th Rakow Commission from the Corning Museum of Glass, McElheny has had one-person exhibitions at the Henry Art Gallery, Seattle; Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Boston; Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, San Francisco; and Centro Galego de Arte Contempor?ea, Santiago de Compostela. His work has been exhibited at SITE Santa Fe and the Whitney Biennial (2000).