Jamie Harris

www.jamieharris.com Collections • Sergey Brin, Palo Alto, CA, 2010 • Mobile Museum of Art, Mobile, AL, 2010 • Banner Cardon Children’s Medical Center, Mesa, AZ 2009 • Museum of American Glass, Millville, NJ, 2007 • Sparta Teapot Museum, Sparta, NC, 2006 • Brooklyn Borough President Marty Markowitz, Brooklyn, NY, 2002 Publications • Art Glass Today, Jeffrey Snyder (Schiffer, 2010) • Contemporary Glass, Blanche Craig (Black Dog, 2008) • 500 Glass Objects, Susan Mowery Kieffer (Lark, 2006) Awards • Finalist, “Young Glass 2007,” Glasmuseet Ebeltoff, Ebeltoff, Denmark, February 2007 • Recipient of Corning Museum of Glass Studio Residency, 2007 • Recipient of Wheaton Village Fellowship, 2005 • Silvermine Guild Award, 54th Annual exhibition “Art of the Northeast,” May 2003 • Recipient of Brooklyn Arts Council Grant, 2001 • Recipient of Metropolitan Contemporary Glass Group Grant, 2001 Solo Exhibitions • “Color Theory,” Vetri, Seattle, WA, July 2005 • Coda Gallery, New York, NY, March 2005 • Coda Gallery, New York, NY, June 2003 • Brooklyn Heights Montessori School, Brooklyn, NY, December 2001 • “Shape,” The Glass Gallery, Bethesda, MD, November 2001 • “Macchie,” Chappell Gallery, Boston, MA, October 2001 • The McGraw Gallery at Newark Academy, Livingston, NJ, October 2001 Group Exhibitions • Melissa Morgan Fine Art, Palm Desert, CA, 2011 • SOFA (Chicago, IL), represented by R Duane Reed Gallery, November 2010, November 2011 • SOFA (Santa Fe, NM), represented by R Duane Reed Gallery, April 2010 • William Traver Gallery, Tacoma, WA, May 2010 • “Vessels,” The Gallery of Fine Crafts at Wheaton Arts, May 2010 • SOFA (Chicago, IL), represented by R Duane Reed Gallery, November 2009 • GlassWeekend at Wheaton Arts, represented by R Duane Reed Gallery, July 2009 • “Impact: Creative Glass Center Alumni Biennial,” Wheaton Arts, June 2009 • “Glass Under Glas,” Long Beach Island Foundation of the Arts, May 2009 • Glass Invitational, Craighead-Green Gallery, Dallas, TX, December 2007 • GlassWeekend at Wheaton Village, represented by Morgan Glass Gallery, summer 2007 • “Young Glass 2007,” Glasmuseet Ebeltoff, Ebeltoff, Denmark, February 2007 • “Teapots,” Morgan Glass Gallery, Pittsburgh, PA, October 2006 • “New Glass,” Susan Megson Gallery, New York, NY, summer 2006 • Sandra Ainsley Gallery, Toronto, Ontario, summer 2006 – present • “2006 Glass Invitational,” Cervini Haas Gallery, Scottsdale. AZ, January 2006 • Thomas R. Riley Gallery, Cleveland, OH, fall 2005 – present • R Duane Reed Gallery, St. Louis, MO, fall 2005 – present • “Dynamic Glass,” Noyes Museum, Oceanville, NJ, fall 2005 • “2005 Fellows,” Wheaton Village, Millville, NJ, January 2005 • “Transparent,” Madelyn Jordan Fine Art, Scarsdale, NY, December 2004 • “Periodic,” Wexler Gallery, Philadelphia, September 2004 • SOFA NY, Represented by UrbanGlass, WeissPollack Gallery, and Chappell Gallery, June 2004 • “Highlights in Contemporary Glass Art,” The Gallery at Bristol-Myers Squibb, Princeton, NJ, May 2004 • “The Language of Color,” Morgan Glass Gallery, Pittsburgh, PA, April 2004 • Mostly Glass Gallery, Englewood, NJ, April 2004. • “Supercool,” Katheryn Markel Fine Art, New York, NY, November 2003 • “888,” ABC Carpet and Home, New York, NY, May-June 2003 • 54th Annual exhibition “Art of the Northeast,” Silvermine Guild Art Center, New Canaan, CT, May 2003 • “Of Fire and Ice,” Madelyn Jordan Fine Art, Scarsdale, NY, May 2003 • “One Hundred Eighty Degrees,” The Glass Gallery, Bethesda, MD, April 2003 • “New Glass,” Sharon Arts Center, Sharon, NH, September 2002. • North American Glass 2002, Guilford Handcraft Center, Guilford, CT, May 2002 • UrbanGlass Faculty Exhibition, Brooklyn, NY, January 2002 • Vetri, Seattle, WA, December 2001 – present • Gallerie Alegria, Burmingham, AL, fall 2001 – present • New York Biennial of Glass, UrbanGlass, Brooklyn, NY, summer 2001 • Glass Weekend at Wheaton Village, July 2001, Represented by Chappell Gallery (New York, NY) • The RIT Bevier Gallery, Rochester, NY, June 2001 • Pismo, Denver, CO, Aspen, CO, and Beaver Creek, CO, January 2000 – present • The Rachael Collection, Aspen, CO, December 2000 – 2003 • Hodgell Gallery, Sarasota, FL, November 2000 • S.O.F.A., Chicago, IL, November 2000, Represented by UrbanGlass (Brooklyn, NY) • Nancy Hoffman Gallery, New York, NY, winter 1999 – present • Gumps, San Francisco, CA, winter 1999 – present • The Morris Museum, Morristown, NJ, “Fresh Perspectives,” 1990-1993 Education • Haystack School, Deer Isle, ME, summer 2003 Intensive study in glassblowing technique and design with Benjamin Moore • The Studio of the Corning Museum of Glass, Corning, NY, summer 2002 Study in glassblowing technique under Kathy Eliot and Ben Edols • UrbanGlass, Brooklyn, NY, 2000-2001 Study in glass sculpture with Einar de la Torre and Jamex de la Torre • New York University, New York, NY, 1999-2000 Postgraduate study in Studio Arts • UrbanGlass, Brooklyn, NY, fall 2000 Study in glassblowing technique with Allen Goldfarb • Haystack School, Deer Isle, ME, summer 2000 Intensive study in glassblowing technique and design with Dante Marioni • Pilchuck School, Seattle, WA, summer 1999 Study of glass art under Katherine Grey and Ruth King • The Studio of the Corning Museum of Glass, Corning, NY, summer 1999 Study in glassblowing technique under Jane Bruce • Penland School of Crafts, Penland, NC, fall 1998 Intensive study in glassblowing technique under Katherine Gray • The Studio of the Corning Museum of Glass, Corning, NY, summer 1998 Study in glassblowing technique under William Gudenwrath and Josiah McElheny • Brown University, Providence, RI, 1993-1997 B.A. in Comparative Literature, graduated Magna Cum Laude, Phi Beta Kappa, with studio work done at the Rhode Island School of Design Teaching Experience • UrbanGlass, New York University, and Long Island University, Brooklyn, NY, fall 1999 – present Faculty glass educator and instructor • The Studio of the Corning Museum of Glass, Corning, NY, 2010 Glass instructor for intensive workshop study • Snow Farm, Willamsburg, MA, 2010 Glass instructor for beginning glassblowing workshop • The Studio of the Corning Museum of Glass, Corning, NY, 2005 – 2006 Glass instructor for intensive workshop study • GlassRoots, Newark, NJ, 2000 – 2004 Consultant and faculty; led workshops for children in kiln-casting and helped designed curricula Artist Statement I approach my glass sculptural work more from a painterly perspective than as a traditional glassblower. My work is about loud splashes of color, about capturing the innate way glass transmits, reflects, and absorbs color. You can see the sensibility in a number of approaches, from the strictness of my blown work to the organic looseness of my cast wall panels. Yet all of my work in general shares a similar love of, and foundation in, color and color patterning. In my blown glass work, I merge a classic Venetian sensibility with a Modernist approach. Though I have intensely studied the Venetian tradition of blown glass, my work is fueled more by color theory and abstract concept than reflections on historical glass. My Incalmo Orb series is an ever-changing examination of color modulation, evoking emotional responses through visual contrast. The Italian technique of incalmo— contrasting bubbles of glass joined together—becomes a three-dimensional color field painting. I use traditional techniques in the hotshop, layering color into the surface, deconstructing the vessel and its traditional functionality by carving away at the glass surface. These strong bands of color combined with swooping lines merge the outside and inside of vessel into a deeply layered, unified presentation of color and space. If my Incalmo Orbs have a severe solemnity to them, my Mod vessels are fun and playful. Though these pieces refer to traditional Italian wheel-cutting, my ongoing experimentation in glass-carving focuses not on decoration but in the use of carving as line and form, turning the vessel wall into a Modernist canvas where the color spills out from within the piece. Multiple carved holes through the vessel reveal layers of bright color, deconstructing the object into funk and abstraction, pitting geometric pattern against organic playfulness. I have focused in recent years in creating architectural wall installations of these pieces, seeking a sense of dramatic movement by continuing linear motifs across multiple pieces of wall-mounted glass. My recent work has focused on assembling manipulated solid glass elements. The Cut Outs wall installations are a playful take on Matisse’s late cardboard cut outs; here, solid geodes, layered with color, are sliced in half to reveal abstractions of depth and shadow, acting as luminous floating fields of color. In my Infusion Block sculptures and wall panels, I use the Italian-trained techniques of layering and banding multiple colored bubbles of glass as a way to generate washes of sensuous, painterly color in a kiln-cast solid mass. These reinterpretations of the incalmo format track in place the flowing movement of molten glass, capturing the subtle gradation from a whisper of transparent color to a saturated intensity. I have been very fortunate to have worked and studied with some of the most talented glassblowers in this country, and where I work in New York I am surrounded by an extensive network of skilled artists. My work is made in a highly coordinated team effort, where the assemblage of collected talent yields a higher degree of intensity and creative output than could be achieved in the glass studio by working alone. This sense of team involvement is one of the greatest joys of glassmaking, and the action of the glassblowing team is an integral part of my work. Jamie Harris is an artist and teacher at UrbanGlass, the New York Experimental Glass Workshop in Brooklyn, NY. A graduate of Brown University, he has studied at some of the most prestigious glass schools in the country: The Pilchuck Glass School, the Rhode Island School of Design, the Penland School of Crafts, the Haystack School, and the Corning Museum of Glass. Selected galleries include: Vetri and William Traver Gallery (Seattle and Tacoma, WA), Duane Reed Gallery (St. Louis, MO), Pismo (Denver, Beaver Creek, and Aspen, CO), Thomas Riley Gallery (Cleveland, OH), Morgan Glass Gallery (Pittsburgh, PA), and Wexler Gallery (Philadelphia, PA).