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.

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Education 

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