CONTEMPORARY GLASS
Contemporary glass artists continue to push the envelope of what can be achieved in this medium.
Josh Simpson (American, b. 1949)
Lives and works in Shelburne Falls, Massachusetts
Megaworld, 1991
Colorless glass encasing multicolored opaque, translucent, and transparent glass: silver bromide on manganese-dioxide potassium-dichromate cobalt; gold foil; murrine; powdered glassCorning Museum of Glass, Corning, New York
Gift of Stewart Rosenblum, 96.4.156
Loretta Hui-Shan Yang (Taiwanese, b. 1952)
Lives and works in Taiwan
The Proof of Awareness, 2006
Colorless kiln-cast glass: cut, ground, polishedCorning Museum of Glass, Corning, New York. 2007.6.1
Kyohei Fujita (Japanese, 1921-2004)
Taketori Tale (Box), 2000
Green and colorless glass: mold-blown; gold and silver leaf, metal rimCorning Museum of Glass, Corning, New York
Gift of Barbara and Dennis DuBois, 2019.6.9
Charles Miner (American, b. 1947)
Lives and works in Santa Fe, New Mexico
Grand Slam Fish Bowl, 1999
Opaque green lead glass: cast; lost-wax process.Corning Museum of Glass, Corning, New York
Gift of Barbara and Dennis DuBois, 2019.4.171