Jamie Harris
Jamie Harris is a glass artist and designer, based in New York City. A graduate of Brown University, Jamie went on to train in glassmaking with many Italian and American master glassblowers. Jamie has been designing and producing his own work since 1998.
Early on in his career, Jamie began turning away from his technical explorations of design and craft and began to approach his glass sculptural work more from a painterly perspective than as a traditional glassblower. His work is about capturing the innate way glass transmits, reflects, and absorbs color. The process of glassblowing, the way the glass glows and transmits colors in its making, continues to inform and inspire Jamie’s work.
Jamie’s recent sculptural work has been a series of kiln-cast color-field panels, an ever- changing examination of color modulation, evoking emotional responses through visual contrast. In these Infusion Block sculptures and wall panels, Jamie uses 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 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. Jamie’s latest work explore his Infusion series in a variety of media, including glass, paper, and digital prints.
Jamie’s work has been collected by the Mobile Museum of Art (Mobile, AL), the Museum of American Glass (Millville, NJ), and Glasmuseum Ebeltoft (Ebeltoft, Denmark). Jamie has received numerous fellowships and awards, including those from the Corning Museum of Glass, Creative Glass Center of America, Brooklyn Arts Council, and the Metropolitan Contemporary Glass Group. Jamie’s sculptural work is represented by Todd Merrill Studio (New York, NY), Duane Reed Gallery (St. Louis, MO), William Traver Gallery and Vetri (Seattle, WA), Wexler Gallery (Philadelphia, PA), Melissa Morgan Fine Art (Palm Desert, CA), and Sandra Ainsley Gallery (Toronto, Canada).
Jamie Harris
Infusion sculptures are made by using 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. Jamie invented a process to create these sculptures, beginning by creating the colored motifs as bubbles of blown glass that are transformed into groups of solid-glass, which are finally cast into blocks and carved and polished into the final shape. So much of the fabrication of these pieces is invested in the science of prediction: anticipating how the color of a bubble blown at the furnace will dilute days later when cast as a solid object, forecasting how fields will distort and move as elements are joined in the casting. These pieces are stop-motion reinterpretations of the traditional Italian-glass “incalmo” format, tracking in place the flowing movement of molten glass, capturing the subtle gradation from a whisper of transparent color to a saturated intensity.
Jamie Harris
Infusion sculptures are made by using 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. Jamie invented a process to create these sculptures, beginning by creating the colored motifs as bubbles of blown glass that are transformed into groups of solid-glass, which are finally cast into blocks and carved and polished into the final shape. So much of the fabrication of these pieces is invested in the science of prediction: anticipating how the color of a bubble blown at the furnace will dilute days later when cast as a solid object, forecasting how fields will distort and move as elements are joined in the casting. These pieces are stop-motion reinterpretations of the traditional Italian-glass “incalmo” format, tracking in place the flowing movement of molten glass, capturing the subtle gradation from a whisper of transparent color to a saturated intensity.
