
jamie harris
REPRESENTED ARTIST
Jamie Harris is a glass artist and designer living in New York City. A graduate of Brown University, Jamie 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. He also studied with some of the most renowned glass artists in the world, including Dante Marioni, Josiah McElheny, Benjamin Moore, Kathy Eliot and Ben Edols.
His sculptural glass work, which he describes as breaking from traditional approaches with a “painterly perspective,” uses loud splashes of color to capture the innate ability of glass to transmit, reflect and absorb light. This transcends both his blown pieces, and his cast wall panels, each which share his love for color and patterning. In his blown glass work, Harris merges a classic Venetian sensibility with a Modernist approach, fueled more by color theory and abstract concepts than reflections on historical glass. Harris also reinterprets traditional techniques, taking blown glass foundations as a method of building up form in a cast sculpture. Harris has also spent many years experimenting with the Italian technique of Incalmo as the basis for building a three-dimensional color field painting. His work is an ever-changing examination of color modulation, evoking emotional responses through visual contrast.

Jamie Harris
REPRESENTED ARTIST
Jamie Harris is a glass artist and designer living in New York City. A graduate of Brown University, Jamie 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. He also studied with some of the most renowned glass artists in the world, including Dante Marioni, Josiah McElheny, Benjamin Moore, Kathy Eliot and Ben Edols.
His sculptural glass work, which he describes as breaking from traditional approaches with a “painterly perspective,” uses loud splashes of color to capture the innate ability of glass to transmit, reflect and absorb light. This transcends both his blown pieces, and his cast wall panels, each which share his love for color and patterning. In his blown glass work, Harris merges a classic Venetian sensibility with a Modernist approach, fueled more by color theory and abstract concepts than reflections on historical glass. Harris also reinterprets traditional techniques, taking blown glass foundations as a method of building up form in a cast sculpture. Harris has also spent many years experimenting with the Italian technique of Incalmo as the basis for building a three-dimensional color field painting. His work is an ever-changing examination of color modulation, evoking emotional responses through visual contrast.
Work
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1993-1997 Brown University, Providence, RI, B.A. in Comparative Literature, graduated
Magna Cum Laude, Phi Beta Kappa, with studio work done at the Rhode Island School of Design
1998 Penland School of Crafts, Penland, NC, Katherine Gray; Intensive study
1998 The Studio of the Corning Museum of Glass, Corning, NY, under William Gudenwrath and Josiah McElheny
1999 Pilchuck School, Seattle, WA, Summer Study of glass art under Katherine Grey and Ruth King
1999 The Studio of the Corning Museum of Glass, Corning, NY, Summer Study in glassblowing technique under Jane Bruce
1999-2000 New York University, New York, NY, Postgraduate study in Studio Arts
2000 UrbanGlass, Brooklyn, NY, Fall Study in glassblowing technique with Allen Goldfarb 2000 Haystack School, Deer Isle, ME, Summer Intensive study in glassblowing technique and design with Dante Marioni
2000-2001 UrbanGlass, Brooklyn, NY, Study in glass sculpture with Einar de la Torre and Jamex de la Torre
2002 The Studio of the Corning Museum of Glass, Corning, NY, Summer Study in glass blowing technique under Kathy Eliot and Ben Edols
2003 Haystack School, Deer Isle, ME, Summer Intensive study in glassblowing technique and design with Benjamin Moore
Collections
2002 Brooklyn Borough President Marty Markowitz, Brooklyn, NY
2006 Sparta Teapot Museum, Sparta, NC
2007 Museum of American Glass, Millville, NJ
2009 Banner Cardon Children’s Medical Center, Mesa, AZ
2009 Rivers Casino, Pittsburgh, PA
2010 Sergey Brin, Palo Alto, CA
2010 Mobile Museum of Art, Mobile, AL
2012 Marriott Hotel, Norfolk, VA
2012 Ruth’s Chris Steakhouse, Niagara Falls, Ontario
2012 Reflection, the Celebrity Cruise Art Collection
2012 Rosie O’Donnell, New York, NY
2012 W Hotel, Guangzhou, China
2015 Thomas Riley Studio, Naples, FL,
Teaching Experience
1999 – present UrbanGlass, Brooklyn, NY, Faculty glass educator and instructor
1999 – 2009 Long Island University and New York University, Glass Educator/Instructor
2010 The Studio of the Corning Museum of Glass, Corning, NY, Glass Instructor
2010 Snow Farm, Williamsburg, MA, Glass Instructor
2005 – 2006 The Studio of the Corning Museum of Glass, Corning, NY, Glass
2000 – 2004 GlassRoots, Newark, NJ, Consultant and Faculty
Publications
2014 New Glass Review 35 (Corning Museum of Glass)
2012 New Glass Review 33 (Corning Museum of Glass)
2010 Art Glass Today, Jeffrey Snyder (Schiffer)
2008 Contemporary Glass, Blanche Craig (Black Dog)
2006 500 Glass Objects, Susan Mowery Kieffer (Lark)
Solo Exhibitions
2005 “Color Theory,” Vetri, Seattle, WA, July
2005 Coda Gallery, New York, NY, March
2003 Coda Gallery, New York, NY, June
2001 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
Group Exhibitions
2014 Collective Design Fair (New York, NY), represented by Wexler Gallery, May
2013 SOFA (Chicago, IL), represented by R Duane Reed Gallery, November
2012 International Glass Festival, Sofia, Bulgaria, October
2012 “Art Glass,” Gallery North, Setauket, NY, summer
2011 Melissa Morgan Fine Art, Palm Desert, CA
2010 SOFA (Chicago, IL), represented by R Duane Reed Gallery, November
2010 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
2009 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
2007 Glass Invitational, Craighead-Green Gallery, Dallas, TX, December
2007 GlassWeekend at Wheaton Village, represented by Morgan Glass Gallery
2007 “Young Glass 2007,” Glasmuseet Ebeltoff, Ebeltoff, Denmark
2006 “Teapots,” Morgan Glass Gallery, Pittsburgh, PA, October
2006 “New Glass,” Susan Megson Gallery, New York, NY, summer
2006 – present Sandra Ainsley Gallery, Toronto, Ontario, summer
2006 “2006 Glass Invitational,” Cervini Haas Gallery, Scottsdale. AZ, January
2005 – present Thomas R. Riley Gallery, Cleveland, OH, fall
2005 – present R Duane Reed Gallery, St. Louis, MO, fall
2005 “Dynamic Glass,” Noyes Museum, Oceanville, NJ, fall
2005 “2005 Fellows,” Wheaton Village, Millville, NJ, January
2004 “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
2003 “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
2002 “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
2001 – present Vetri, Seattle, WA, December
2001 – present Gallerie Alegria, Burmingham, AL, fall
2001 New York Biennial of Glass, UrbanGlass, Brooklyn, NY, summer
2001 Glass Weekend at Wheaton Village, July, Represented by Chappell Gallery (New York, NY)
2001 The RIT Bevier Gallery, Rochester, NY, June
2000 – present Pismo, Denver, CO, Aspen, CO, and Beaver Creek, CO, January
2000 – 2003 The Rachael Collection, Aspen, CO, December
2000 Hodgell Gallery, Sarasota, FL, November
2000 S.O.F.A., Chicago, IL, November, Represented by UrbanGlass (Brooklyn, NY)
1999 – present Nancy Hoffman Gallery, New York, NY, winter
1999 – present Gumps, San Francisco, CA, winter
1990-1993 The Morris Museum, Morristown, NJ, “Fresh Perspectives,”
Awards
2014 Recipient of Corning Museum of Glass Joint Studio Residency
2007 Finalist, “Young Glass 2007,” Glasmuseet Ebeltoff, Ebeltoft, Denmark, February
2007 Recipient of Corning Museum of Glass Studio Residency,
2005 Recipient of Wheaton Village Fellowship
2003 Silvermine Guild Award, 54th Annual exhibition “Art of the Northeast,” May
2001 Recipient of Brooklyn Arts Council Grant
2001 Recipient of Metropolitan Contemporary Glass Group Grant
Press
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