乔赛亚-麦克尔尼 雕塑家

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Josiah McElheny
Sculptor | Class of 2006
Drawing from the decorative and functional traditions of glass to craft a new, multifaceted form of contemporary art.

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Title
Sculptor
Location
New York, New York
Age
39 at time of award
Area of Focus
3-D Visual Art
Published September 1, 2006
ABOUT JOSIAH'S WORK
Josiah McElheny is a sculptor who draws from the decorative and functional traditions of glass to craft a new, multifaceted form of contemporary art. Often using narratives inspired by the histories of art, design, and glass as points of departure, McElheny creates objects of exceptional formal sophistication, exquisite craftsmanship, and conceptual rigor. While the beauty of his blown glass objects invite viewers into his installations, the narratives behind each piece encourage thoughtful reflection upon the objects’ significance. One of McElheny’s most ambitious projects, An End to Modernity (2005), consists of a twelve-foot-wide by ten-foot-high chandelier modeled on the 1960s Lobmeyr design for the chandeliers found in Lincoln Center. Through his massive sculpture of shining chrome and transparent glass, McElheny explores the convergence of modernist design and the Big Bang theory, both of which were invented in the early twentieth-century, only to reach their widespread acceptance in the 1960s. Earlier projects have focused on subjects ranging from Roman Imperial glass to twentieth-century fashion, from sixteenth-century Italian painting to the designs of Adolf Loos. To each of these topics McElheny brings the same boundless curiosity and ability to make connections across classes of objects, historical moments, and fields of inquiry. This artist’s technical virtuosity and deep knowledge of his medium’s history have produced a captivating series of sculptures and promise more stimulating, shimmering works to come.

BIOGRAPHY
Josiah McElheny received a B.F.A. (1989) from the Rhode Island School of Design and was an apprentice to master glassblowers Jan-Erik Ritzman (1989-1991), Sven-Ake Carlsson (1989-1991), and Lino Tagliapietra (1992-1997). He was an artist-in-residence at the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum (1998) and the University of Nevada, Las Vegas (2000) and was a visiting critic at the Yale University School of Art (2001-2003). His works have appeared in numerous solo and group exibitions in the U.S. and abroad, including the Whitney Museum of American Art and the Museum of Modern Art in New York, the Wexner Center for the Arts, Columbus, and the Centro Galego de Arte Contemporánea, Santiago de Compostela, Spain.





乔赛亚-麦克尔尼
雕塑家|2006级
从玻璃的装饰性和功能性传统中汲取营养，精心打造一种新的、多面的当代艺术形式。

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标题
雕塑家
地点
纽约，纽约
年龄
获奖时为39岁
重点领域
3-D视觉艺术
发表于2006年9月1日
关于乔赛亚的作品
乔赛亚-麦克尔尼是一位雕塑家，他从玻璃的装饰性和功能性传统中汲取灵感，精心打造一种新的、多面的当代艺术形式。经常使用从艺术、设计和玻璃的历史中获得的灵感作为出发点的叙述，麦克尔尼创造了具有特殊形式的复杂性、精致的工艺和严格的概念的物体。当他的吹制玻璃制品的美感邀请观众进入他的装置时，每件作品背后的叙事鼓励人们对这些物品的意义进行深思。麦克尔尼最雄心勃勃的项目之一，《现代性的终结》（2005年），包括一个12英尺宽、10英尺高的吊灯，仿照1960年代林肯中心的吊灯的Lobmeyr设计。通过他的闪亮的铬和透明玻璃的巨大雕塑，麦克尔尼探索了现代主义设计和宇宙大爆炸理论的融合，这两者都是在二十世纪初发明的，只是在六十年代才达到它们的广泛接受。早期的项目关注的主题包括从罗马帝国的玻璃到二十世纪的时尚，从十六世纪的意大利绘画到阿道夫-卢斯的设计。对于每一个主题，麦克尔尼都带来了同样的无限好奇心和能力，使其能够跨越物品类别、历史时刻和调查领域的联系。这位艺术家的技术能力和对他的媒介历史的深刻了解产生了一系列迷人的雕塑作品，并承诺会有更多刺激、闪亮的作品出现。

个人简历
乔赛亚-麦克尔尼从罗德岛设计学院获得了艺术学士学位（1989年），并成为玻璃吹制大师Jan-Erik Ritzman（1989-1991）、Sven-Ake Carlsson（1989-1991）和Lino Tagliapietra（1992-1997）的学徒。他是伊莎贝拉-斯图尔特-加德纳博物馆（1998年）和内华达大学拉斯维加斯分校（2000年）的驻校艺术家，并且是耶鲁大学艺术学院的访问评论员（2001-2003年）。他的作品出现在美国和国外的众多个展和联展中，包括纽约的惠特尼美国艺术博物馆和现代艺术博物馆、哥伦布的韦克斯纳艺术中心和西班牙圣地亚哥德孔波斯特拉的加利戈当代艺术中心。