Josiah McElheny

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Josiah McElheny
Born1966 (1966)
Boston, United States
NationalityAmerican
EducationRhode Island School of Design
Known forSculpture, Assemblage
AwardsMacArthur Fellows Program

Josiah McElheny (1966, Boston) is an

glass blowing and assemblages of glass and mirrored glassed objects (see Glass art). He is a 2006 recipient of the MacArthur Fellows Program. He lives and works in New York City
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Early life and education

McElheny grew up in Brookline, Massachusetts.[citation needed] McElheny went on to receive his BFA from the Rhode Island School of Design in 1988.[2] As part of that program, he trained under master glassblower Ronald Wilkins.[3] After graduating, he was an apprentice to master glassblowers Jan-Erik Ritzman, Sven-Ake Caarlson and Lino Tagliapietra.[1]

Career

In earlier works McElheny played with notions of history and fiction.[4] Examples of this are works that recreate Renaissance glass objects pictured in Renaissance paintings[5] and modern (but lost) glass objects from documentary photographs (such as works by Adolf Loos).[6] He draws from a range of disciplines like architecture, physics, and literature, among others, and he works in a variety of media.[7]

McElheny has mentioned the influence of the writings of Jorge Luis Borges in his work.[8] His work has also been influenced by the work of the American abstract artist Donald Judd.[9]

McElheny has also expressed interest in glassblowing as part of an oral tradition handed down generation to generation.[citation needed] He has used the infinity mirror visual effect in his explorations of apparently infinite space. His work also sometimes deals with issues of museological displays.[10]

One of the artist's ongoing projects is "An End to Modernity" (2005), commissioned by the

Cantor Center for the Arts.[15]

Exhibitions

Solo exhibitions

Awards

Permanent collections

Books

References

  1. ^ a b "Josiah McElheny · Works 1994-2000". www.jccc.edu.
  2. ^ Magazine, Wallpaper* (19 November 2012). "'Interactions of the Abstract Body' by Josiah McElheny, London". Wallpaper*.
  3. ^ "Josiah McElheny". Art21.
  4. ^ "Josiah McElheny (2000) - Corning Museum of Glass". www.cmog.org.
  5. ^ "Objects and Ideas". Art21.
  6. ^ "Josiah McElheny at Donald Young Gallery". www.artforum.com. 29 December 2010.
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  8. ISBN 9781906072216
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  9. ISBN 978-0-935172-49-2
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  10. ISBN 978-0-300-22669-0
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  11. ^ a b c Dobrzynski, Judith H. (14 June 2012). "Josiah McElheny, Glass Artist, in Busy Times". The New York Times.
  12. ^ a b Spears, Dorothy (7 May 2006). "The Entire Universe on a Dimmer Switch". The New York Times.
  13. ^ "The Big Picture" by Alex Browne, The New York Times, September 26, 2008. Retrieved 4 August 2009.
  14. ^ "Josiah McElheny and David Weinberg: From the Big Bang to Island Universe" Wexler Center press release on a joint conversation May 6, 2009. Retrieved 4 August 2009.
  15. ^ Kane, Karla (March 11, 2019). "Cantor installation explores the multiverse". Palo Alto Weekly. Retrieved June 20, 2019.
  16. ^ Hackett, Regina; Critic, P.-I. Art (13 June 2008). "The fussy and fashionable acquire weight in glass artist Josiah McElheny's hands". seattlepi.com.
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  18. ^ ""Total Reflective Abstraction"". Art21.
  19. ^ Schwendener, Martha. "Art in Review; Josiah McElheny". query.nytimes.com.
  20. ^ "The 1st at Moderna: Josiah McElheny". Moderna Museet i Stockholm.
  21. ^ "Josiah McElheny - Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía". www.museoreinasofia.es.
  22. ^ Reporter, James H. Burnett III-. "Josiah McElheny's expanding universe - The Boston Globe". BostonGlobe.com.
  23. ^ "Josiah McElheny - MacArthur Foundation". www.macfound.org.
  24. ^ "Josiah McElheny. Buckminster Fuller's Proposal to Isamu Noguchi for the New Abstraction of Total Reflection. 2003 - Albright-Knox Art Gallery". www.albrightknox.org.
  25. ^ "Josiah McElheny. Historical Renaissance, Mirrored and Reflected (Undecorated). 2003 - Carnegie Museum of Art". www.cmoa.org.
  26. ^ "Josiah McElheny. Charlotte Perriand (and Carlo Scarpa), Blue. 2011 - CCS Bard". www.ccs.bard.edu/.
  27. ^ "Josiah McElheny. Italy vs. Sweden (White). 2002 - CGAC". www.cgac.xunta.gal/EN/contido/cgac/.
  28. ^ "Josiah McElheny. Rearrangeable Domestic Roman Collection. 2008 - Chrysler Museum of Art". www.chrysler.org/.
  29. ^ "Josiah McElheny. Three Screens for Looking at Abstraction. 2013 - Columbus Museum of Art". www.columbusmuseum.org.
  30. ^ "Josiah McElheny. Glass Crown with Pillow and Booklet. 2006 - Corning Museum of Glass". www.home.cmog.org/.
  31. ^ "Josiah McElheny. Landscape Model for Total Reflective Abstraction (I). 2004 - DMA". www.dma.org.
  32. ^ "Josiah McElheny. Adolf Loos' Ornament and Crime. 2003 - DIA". www.dia.org.
  33. ^ "Josiah McElheny. Chromatic Modernism (Blue, Red, Yellow). 2010 - IMA". www.discovernewfields.org/do-and-see/places-to-go/indianapolis-museum-art.
  34. ^ "Josiah McElheny. Halo after Botticelli. 2019 - ICA Boston". www.icaboston.org/. 1997.
  35. ^ "Josiah McElheny. Ornament and Crime. 2003 - LACMA". www.lacma.org.
  36. ^ "Josiah McElheny. Blue Prism Painting I. 2014 - Memorial Art Gallery of the University of Rochester". www.mag.rochester.edu/.
  37. ^ "Josiah McElheny. Modernity circa 1952, Mirrored and Reflected Infinitely. 2004 - Milwaukee Art Museum". www.mam.org/.
  38. ^ "Josiah McElheny. The Alpine Cathedral and the City-Crown. 2007 - Moderna Museet". www.modernamuseet.se.
  39. ^ "Josiah McElheny. Chromatic Modernism (Yellow, Blue, Red). 2009 - MWPAI". www.mwpai.org/.
  40. ^ "Josiah McElheny. Model for a Film Set (The Light Spa at the Bottom of a Mine). 2009 - Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia". www.museoreinasofia.es/en.
  41. ^ "Josiah McElheny. Endlessly Repeating Twentieth Century Modernism. 2007 - MFA Boston". www.mfa.org.
  42. ^ "Josiah McElheny. Modernity, Mirrored and Reflected Infinitely. 2003 - MoMA". www.moma.org.
  43. ^ "Josiah McElheny. THE LAST SCATTERING SURFACE. 2008 - Phoenix Art Museum". www.phxart.org/.
  44. ^ "Josiah McElheny. Studies in the Search for Infinity, 1997-1998. 2001 - Rhode Island School of Design Museum". www.risdmuseum.org/.
  45. ^ "Josiah McElheny. Crystalline Landscape After Hablik and Luckhardt III. 2013 - Santa Barbara Museum of Art". www.sbma.net/.
  46. ^ "Josiah McElheny. THE ONLY KNOWN GRAVE OF A GLASSBLOWER. 1995 - Seattle Art Museum". www.seattleartmuseum.org/.
  47. ^ "Josiah McElheny. An End to Modernity. 2005 - Tate Modern". www.tate.org.uk/art/artworks/mcelheny-an-end-to-modernity-l02749.
  48. ^ "Josiah McElheny. From An Historical Anecdote About Fashion. 2000 - Whitney Museum of American Art". www.whitney.org.
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