Josiah McElheny

Josiah McElheny
Josiah McElheny
Born	1966; Boston, United States
Education	Rhode Island School of Design
Known for	Sculpture, Assemblage
Awards	MacArthur Fellows Program

Josiah McElheny (1966, Boston) is an artist and sculptor, primarily known for his work with glass blowing and assemblages of glass and mirrored glassed objects (see Glass art). He is a 2006 recipient of the MacArthur Fellows Program. He lives and works in New York City.

Early life and education

McElheny grew up in Brookline, Massachusetts.^{[citation needed]} McElheny went on to receive his BFA from the Rhode Island School of Design in 1988.^[2] As part of that program, he trained under master glassblower Ronald Wilkins.^[3] After graduating, he was an apprentice to master glassblowers Jan-Erik Ritzman, Sven-Ake Caarlson and Lino Tagliapietra.^[1]

Career

In earlier works McElheny played with notions of history and fiction.^[4] Examples of this are works that recreate Renaissance glass objects pictured in Renaissance paintings^[5] and modern (but lost) glass objects from documentary photographs (such as works by Adolf Loos).^[6] He draws from a range of disciplines like architecture, physics, and literature, among others, and he works in a variety of media.^[7]

McElheny has mentioned the influence of the writings of Jorge Luis Borges in his work.^[8] His work has also been influenced by the work of the American abstract artist Donald Judd.^[9]

McElheny has also expressed interest in glassblowing as part of an oral tradition handed down generation to generation.^{[citation needed]} He has used the infinity mirror visual effect in his explorations of apparently infinite space. His work also sometimes deals with issues of museological displays.^[10]

One of the artist's ongoing projects is "An End to Modernity" (2005), commissioned by the Wexner Center for the Arts at Ohio State University. The piece is a twelve-foot-wide by ten-foot-high chandelier of chrome and transparent glass modeled on the 1960s Lobmeyr design for the chandeliers found in Lincoln Center, and evoking as well the Big Bang theory.^[11] "The End of the Dark Ages," again inspired by the Metropolitan Opera House chandeliers and informed by logarithmic equations devised by the cosmologist David H. Weinberg^[12] was shown in New York City in 2008. Later that year, the series culminated in a massive installation titled "Island Universe" at White Cube in London^[13] and in Madrid.^[14] In 2019 the installation was exhibited at Stanford University's Cantor Center for the Arts.^[15]

Exhibitions

Solo exhibitions

1990 – Jägarens Glasmuseet (The Hunter's Glass Museum), Arnescruv, Sweden,
1993 – originals, fakes, reproductions, William Traver Gallery, Seattle
1994 – Authentic History, Robert Lehman Gallery, Brooklyn, New York
1995 – Stephen Friedman Gallery, London
1995 – Installation with Ancient Roman Glass, Ancient Mediterranean and Egypt Gallery, Seattle Art Museum, Seattle,
1995 – Donald Young Gallery, Seattle
1996 – Barbara Kraków Gallery, Boston
1997 -Non-Decorative Beautiful Objects, AC Project Room, New York
1997 – Three Alter Egos, Donald Young Gallery, Seattle
1999 – The Henry Art Gallery, University of Washington, Seattle^[16]
1999 – The Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Boston
2000 – Christian Dior, Jorges Luis Borges, Adolf Loos, Donald Young Gallery, Chicago and Brent Sikkema, New York
2001 – Metal Party, Public Art Fund, New York
2001 – Metal Party, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, San Francisco
2001 – Johnson County Community College, Overland Park, Kansas
2002 – Centro Galego de Arte Contemporánea, Santiago de Compostela, Spain
2003 – Theories About Reflection, Brent Sikkema Gallery, New York
2003 – Antipodes: Josiah McElheny, White Cube, London^[17]
2004 – Total Reflective Abstraction, Donald Young Gallery, Chicago^[18]
2005 – An End to Modernity, Wexner Center for the Arts at Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio^[12]
2006 – Modernity 1929–1965, Andrea Rosen Gallery, New York
2006 – Cosmology, Design, and Landscape, Part I, Donald Young Gallery, Chicago
2007 – Cosmology, Design, and Landscape, Part II, Donald Young Gallery, Chicago
2007 – Projects 84: The Alpine Cathedral and the City-Crown, The Museum of Modern Art, New York^[19]
2007 – The 1st at Moderna: The Alpine Cathedral and the City-Crown, Moderna Museet, Stockholm^[20]
2008 – The Last Scattering Surface, Henry Art Gallery, University of Washington, Seattle and Rochester Art Center, Rochester, Minnesota
2008 – Das Lichtklub von Batavia/The Light Club of Batavia, Institut im Glaspavillon, Berlin
2008 – The Light Club of Batavia, Donald Young Gallery, Chicago
2008 – The End of the Dark Ages, Andrea Rosen Gallery, New York
2008 – Island Universe, White Cube, London
2009 – A Space for an Island Universe, Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia, Madrid^[21]
2009 – Proposal for a Chromatic Modernism, Andrea Rosen Gallery, New York
2012 – Some Pictures of the Infinite, Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston^[11]^[22]
2016 – The Ornament Museum, Museum of Applied Arts, Vienna
2017 – The Crystal Land, White Cube, London
2017 – Prismatic Park, Madison Square Park Conservancy, New York
2018 – Island Universe, Moody Center for the Arts, Houston
2018 – Cosmic Love, Corbett vs. Dempsey, Chicago
2019 – Island Universe, Cantor Arts Center, Stanford
2019 – Observations at Night, James Cohan Gallery, New York
2021 – Libraries, James Cohan Gallery, New York

Awards

1993 – Betty Bowen Special Recognition Award, Seattle Art Museum, Seattle, Washington
1995 – Award Winner, 1995 Biennial Competition of The Louis Comfort Tiffany Foundation, New York, New York
1998 – Bagley Wright Fund Award, Seattle, Washington
2000 – The 15th Rakow Commission, Corning Museum of Glass, Corning, New York
2005 – Artist-in-Residence Award, Wexner Center for the Arts, Columbus, Ohio
2006 – MacArthur Fellows Program^[11]^[23]

Permanent collections

Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo ^[24]
Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh ^[25]
Center for Curatorial Studies, Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson ^[26]
Centro Galego de Arte Contemporanea, Santiago di Compostela ^[27]
Chrysler Museum of Art, Norfolk ^[28]
Columbus Museum of Art, Columbus ^[29]
Corning Museum of Glass, Corning ^[30]
Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas ^[31]
Detroit Institute of Arts, Detroit ^[32]
Indianapolis Museum of Art, Indianapolis ^[33]
Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston^[34]
Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles ^[35]
Memorial Art Gallery, Rochester ^[36]
Milwaukee Art Museum, Milwaukee ^[37]
Moderna Museet, Stockholm ^[38]
Munson-Williams-Proctor Arts Institute, Utica ^[39]
Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, Madrid ^[40]
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston^[41]
Museum of Modern Art, New York^[42]
Phoenix Art Museum, Phoenix ^[43]
Rhode Island School of Design Museum, Providence ^[44]
Santa Barbara Museum of Art, Santa Barbara ^[45]
Seattle Art Museum, Seattle ^[46]
Tate Modern, London ^[47]
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York ^[48]

Books

Josiah McElheny: A Prism. Skira Rizzoli International, 2010. ISBN 978-0-8478-3415-0.
The Light Club: On Paul Scheerbart's 'The Light Club of Batavia'. University of Chicago Press, 2010. ISBN 978-0-226-51457-4.

References

^ ^a ^b "Josiah McElheny · Works 1994-2000". www.jccc.edu.
^ Magazine, Wallpaper* (19 November 2012). "'Interactions of the Abstract Body' by Josiah McElheny, London". Wallpaper*.
^ "Josiah McElheny". Art21.
^ "Josiah McElheny (2000) - Corning Museum of Glass". www.cmog.org.
^ "Objects and Ideas". Art21.
^ "Josiah McElheny at Donald Young Gallery". www.artforum.com. 29 December 2010.
^ Oldknow, Tina (2014). collecting contemporary glass. Corning, New York: Corning Museum of Glass. p. 140. ISBN 978-0-87290-201-5.
^ A. D. Linde (2008). Josiah McElheny: Island Universe. Jay Jopling/White Cube. ISBN 9781906072216.
^ Jutta-Annette Page; Peter Morrin; Robert Bell (12 December 2012). Color Ignited: Glass 1962–2012. BookBaby. pp. 38–. ISBN 978-0-935172-49-2.
^ John Stuart Gordon (9 November 2017). American Glass: The Collections at Yale. Yale University Press. pp. 285–. ISBN 978-0-300-22669-0.
^ ^a ^b ^c Dobrzynski, Judith H. (14 June 2012). "Josiah McElheny, Glass Artist, in Busy Times". The New York Times.
^ ^a ^b Spears, Dorothy (7 May 2006). "The Entire Universe on a Dimmer Switch". The New York Times.
^ "The Big Picture" by Alex Browne, The New York Times, September 26, 2008. Retrieved 4 August 2009.
^ "Josiah McElheny and David Weinberg: From the Big Bang to Island Universe" Wexler Center press release on a joint conversation May 6, 2009. Retrieved 4 August 2009.
^ Kane, Karla (March 11, 2019). "Cantor installation explores the multiverse". Palo Alto Weekly. Retrieved June 20, 2019.
^ Hackett, Regina; Critic, P.-I. Art (13 June 2008). "The fussy and fashionable acquire weight in glass artist Josiah McElheny's hands". seattlepi.com.
^ Louise Neri (2003). Antipodes: inside the white cube. White Cube. ISBN 978-0-9542363-8-0.
^ ""Total Reflective Abstraction"". Art21.
^ Schwendener, Martha. "Art in Review; Josiah McElheny". query.nytimes.com.
^ "The 1st at Moderna: Josiah McElheny". Moderna Museet i Stockholm.
^ "Josiah McElheny - Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía". www.museoreinasofia.es.
^ Reporter, James H. Burnett III-. "Josiah McElheny's expanding universe - The Boston Globe". BostonGlobe.com.
^ "Josiah McElheny - MacArthur Foundation". www.macfound.org.
^ "Josiah McElheny. Buckminster Fuller's Proposal to Isamu Noguchi for the New Abstraction of Total Reflection. 2003 - Albright-Knox Art Gallery". www.albrightknox.org.
^ "Josiah McElheny. Historical Renaissance, Mirrored and Reflected (Undecorated). 2003 - Carnegie Museum of Art". www.cmoa.org.
^ "Josiah McElheny. Charlotte Perriand (and Carlo Scarpa), Blue. 2011 - CCS Bard". www.ccs.bard.edu/.
^ "Josiah McElheny. Italy vs. Sweden (White). 2002 - CGAC". www.cgac.xunta.gal/EN/contido/cgac/.
^ "Josiah McElheny. Rearrangeable Domestic Roman Collection. 2008 - Chrysler Museum of Art". www.chrysler.org/.
^ "Josiah McElheny. Three Screens for Looking at Abstraction. 2013 - Columbus Museum of Art". www.columbusmuseum.org.
^ "Josiah McElheny. Glass Crown with Pillow and Booklet. 2006 - Corning Museum of Glass". www.home.cmog.org/.
^ "Josiah McElheny. Landscape Model for Total Reflective Abstraction (I). 2004 - DMA". www.dma.org.
^ "Josiah McElheny. Adolf Loos' Ornament and Crime. 2003 - DIA". www.dia.org.
^ "Josiah McElheny. Chromatic Modernism (Blue, Red, Yellow). 2010 - IMA". www.discovernewfields.org/do-and-see/places-to-go/indianapolis-museum-art.
^ "Josiah McElheny. Halo after Botticelli. 2019 - ICA Boston". www.icaboston.org/. 1997.
^ "Josiah McElheny. Ornament and Crime. 2003 - LACMA". www.lacma.org.
^ "Josiah McElheny. Blue Prism Painting I. 2014 - Memorial Art Gallery of the University of Rochester". www.mag.rochester.edu/.
^ "Josiah McElheny. Modernity circa 1952, Mirrored and Reflected Infinitely. 2004 - Milwaukee Art Museum". www.mam.org/.
^ "Josiah McElheny. The Alpine Cathedral and the City-Crown. 2007 - Moderna Museet". www.modernamuseet.se.
^ "Josiah McElheny. Chromatic Modernism (Yellow, Blue, Red). 2009 - MWPAI". www.mwpai.org/.
^ "Josiah McElheny. Model for a Film Set (The Light Spa at the Bottom of a Mine). 2009 - Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia". www.museoreinasofia.es/en.
^ "Josiah McElheny. Endlessly Repeating Twentieth Century Modernism. 2007 - MFA Boston". www.mfa.org.
^ "Josiah McElheny. Modernity, Mirrored and Reflected Infinitely. 2003 - MoMA". www.moma.org.
^ "Josiah McElheny. THE LAST SCATTERING SURFACE. 2008 - Phoenix Art Museum". www.phxart.org/.
^ "Josiah McElheny. Studies in the Search for Infinity, 1997-1998. 2001 - Rhode Island School of Design Museum". www.risdmuseum.org/.
^ "Josiah McElheny. Crystalline Landscape After Hablik and Luckhardt III. 2013 - Santa Barbara Museum of Art". www.sbma.net/.
^ "Josiah McElheny. THE ONLY KNOWN GRAVE OF A GLASSBLOWER. 1995 - Seattle Art Museum". www.seattleartmuseum.org/.
^ "Josiah McElheny. An End to Modernity. 2005 - Tate Modern". www.tate.org.uk/art/artworks/mcelheny-an-end-to-modernity-l02749.
^ "Josiah McElheny. From An Historical Anecdote About Fashion. 2000 - Whitney Museum of American Art". www.whitney.org.

[nermanMuseum-1] "Josiah McElheny · Works 1994-2000". www.jccc.edu.

[2] Magazine, Wallpaper* (19 November 2012). "'Interactions of the Abstract Body' by Josiah McElheny, London". Wallpaper*.

[3] "Josiah McElheny". Art21.

[4] "Josiah McElheny (2000) - Corning Museum of Glass". www.cmog.org.

[5] "Objects and Ideas". Art21.

[6] "Josiah McElheny at Donald Young Gallery". www.artforum.com. 29 December 2010.

[7] Oldknow, Tina (2014). collecting contemporary glass. Corning, New York: Corning Museum of Glass. p. 140. ISBN 978-0-87290-201-5.

[Linde2008-8] A. D. Linde (2008). Josiah McElheny: Island Universe. Jay Jopling/White Cube. ISBN 9781906072216.

[PageMorrin2012-9] Jutta-Annette Page; Peter Morrin; Robert Bell (12 December 2012). Color Ignited: Glass 1962–2012. BookBaby. pp. 38–. ISBN 978-0-935172-49-2.

[Gordon2017-10] John Stuart Gordon (9 November 2017). American Glass: The Collections at Yale. Yale University Press. pp. 285–. ISBN 978-0-300-22669-0.

[nytimes-11] Dobrzynski, Judith H. (14 June 2012). "Josiah McElheny, Glass Artist, in Busy Times". The New York Times.

[nytimes_dimmer-12] Spears, Dorothy (7 May 2006). "The Entire Universe on a Dimmer Switch". The New York Times.

[13] "The Big Picture" by Alex Browne, The New York Times, September 26, 2008. Retrieved 4 August 2009.

[14] "Josiah McElheny and David Weinberg: From the Big Bang to Island Universe" Wexler Center press release on a joint conversation May 6, 2009. Retrieved 4 August 2009.

[multiverse-15] Kane, Karla (March 11, 2019). "Cantor installation explores the multiverse". Palo Alto Weekly. Retrieved June 20, 2019.

[16] Hackett, Regina; Critic, P.-I. Art (13 June 2008). "The fussy and fashionable acquire weight in glass artist Josiah McElheny's hands". seattlepi.com.

[Neri2003-17] Louise Neri (2003). Antipodes: inside the white cube. White Cube. ISBN 978-0-9542363-8-0.

[18] ""Total Reflective Abstraction"". Art21.

[nyt3_crown-19] Schwendener, Martha. "Art in Review; Josiah McElheny". query.nytimes.com.

[20] "The 1st at Moderna: Josiah McElheny". Moderna Museet i Stockholm.

[21] "Josiah McElheny - Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía". www.museoreinasofia.es.

[22] Reporter, James H. Burnett III-. "Josiah McElheny's expanding universe - The Boston Globe". BostonGlobe.com.

[23] "Josiah McElheny - MacArthur Foundation". www.macfound.org.

[24] "Josiah McElheny. Buckminster Fuller's Proposal to Isamu Noguchi for the New Abstraction of Total Reflection. 2003 - Albright-Knox Art Gallery". www.albrightknox.org.

[25] "Josiah McElheny. Historical Renaissance, Mirrored and Reflected (Undecorated). 2003 - Carnegie Museum of Art". www.cmoa.org.

[26] "Josiah McElheny. Charlotte Perriand (and Carlo Scarpa), Blue. 2011 - CCS Bard". www.ccs.bard.edu/.

[27] "Josiah McElheny. Italy vs. Sweden (White). 2002 - CGAC". www.cgac.xunta.gal/EN/contido/cgac/.

[28] "Josiah McElheny. Rearrangeable Domestic Roman Collection. 2008 - Chrysler Museum of Art". www.chrysler.org/.

[29] "Josiah McElheny. Three Screens for Looking at Abstraction. 2013 - Columbus Museum of Art". www.columbusmuseum.org.

[30] "Josiah McElheny. Glass Crown with Pillow and Booklet. 2006 - Corning Museum of Glass". www.home.cmog.org/.

[31] "Josiah McElheny. Landscape Model for Total Reflective Abstraction (I). 2004 - DMA". www.dma.org.

[32] "Josiah McElheny. Adolf Loos' Ornament and Crime. 2003 - DIA". www.dia.org.

[33] "Josiah McElheny. Chromatic Modernism (Blue, Red, Yellow). 2010 - IMA". www.discovernewfields.org/do-and-see/places-to-go/indianapolis-museum-art.

[34] "Josiah McElheny. Halo after Botticelli. 2019 - ICA Boston". www.icaboston.org/. 1997.

[35] "Josiah McElheny. Ornament and Crime. 2003 - LACMA". www.lacma.org.

[36] "Josiah McElheny. Blue Prism Painting I. 2014 - Memorial Art Gallery of the University of Rochester". www.mag.rochester.edu/.

[37] "Josiah McElheny. Modernity circa 1952, Mirrored and Reflected Infinitely. 2004 - Milwaukee Art Museum". www.mam.org/.

[38] "Josiah McElheny. The Alpine Cathedral and the City-Crown. 2007 - Moderna Museet". www.modernamuseet.se.

[39] "Josiah McElheny. Chromatic Modernism (Yellow, Blue, Red). 2009 - MWPAI". www.mwpai.org/.

[40] "Josiah McElheny. Model for a Film Set (The Light Spa at the Bottom of a Mine). 2009 - Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia". www.museoreinasofia.es/en.

[41] "Josiah McElheny. Endlessly Repeating Twentieth Century Modernism. 2007 - MFA Boston". www.mfa.org.

[42] "Josiah McElheny. Modernity, Mirrored and Reflected Infinitely. 2003 - MoMA". www.moma.org.

[43] "Josiah McElheny. THE LAST SCATTERING SURFACE. 2008 - Phoenix Art Museum". www.phxart.org/.

[44] "Josiah McElheny. Studies in the Search for Infinity, 1997-1998. 2001 - Rhode Island School of Design Museum". www.risdmuseum.org/.

[45] "Josiah McElheny. Crystalline Landscape After Hablik and Luckhardt III. 2013 - Santa Barbara Museum of Art". www.sbma.net/.

[46] "Josiah McElheny. THE ONLY KNOWN GRAVE OF A GLASSBLOWER. 1995 - Seattle Art Museum". www.seattleartmuseum.org/.

[47] "Josiah McElheny. An End to Modernity. 2005 - Tate Modern". www.tate.org.uk/art/artworks/mcelheny-an-end-to-modernity-l02749.

[48] "Josiah McElheny. From An Historical Anecdote About Fashion. 2000 - Whitney Museum of American Art". www.whitney.org.

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Josiah McElheny

Early life and education

Career

Exhibitions

Solo exhibitions

Awards

Permanent collections

Books

References

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