Dimpled Mirrored Block Installation in Silver, Aqua, Copper and Steel Blue

Jamie Harris’ Dimpled wall installations play on the tension between the constraint of the geometric forms and the undulation of the slashed surfaces. The mirroring sensuously highlights the sculpted forms while allowing the colored surfaces to bounce off of each other, allowing the color to blend between the glass forms and their environment.

For Harris, his work is a relentless examination of the purity of color and the limitless modulations that can evoke emotional resonance through visual contrasts. Notably, 20th Century Modernist painters like Mark Rothko, Kenneth Nolan, and Ellsworth Kelly have been a source of inspiration, as has the extensive color theory of Joseph Albers. In the way that the mid-century gestural painters brought a sense of action to their canvases through the application of paint, Harris states, “I wanted to capture that flowing sense of color and movement I see when glass is at 2000 degrees.”

Harris’ work has been collected by the Mobile Museum of Art (Mobile, AL), the Museum of American Glass (Millville, NJ), and Glasmuseum Ebeltoft (Ebeltoft, Denmark). He is the recipient of 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.

Glass, Mirrored Glass
63h x 63w x 5.25d in
160.02h x 160.02w x 13.34d cm