"3 Questions"- interview on Glass Quarterly Blog

Just posted last week is an interview that asks 3 questions dealing with my creative process, inspiration, and what I am working on. I hope you enjoy it.

To see the interview please click the link below
http://blog.glassquarterly.com/2012/07/20/3-questions-for-jessica-jane-julius/#more-15150

"Static" at the Philadelphia Museum of Art

For the exhibition "Craft Spoken Here", curated by Elisabeth Agro, at the Philadelphia Museum of Art I have installed "Static". It is an installation made from thousands of black glass thread that has been flameworked and then gets connected to create one form. Each time this work gets installed it reacts to the space. I feel it is similar to drawing with a black pen on a white piece of paper.

The exhibition runs from May 5th, 2012 through August 12th, 2012. 

To see time-lapse video of the piece being installed click here.

From the PMA website
Crafts were prominent among the first works of art to enter the collections of the Philadelphia Museum of Art when it was founded in 1876, and the Museum has continued to collect and exhibit crafts. Today, thanks in large part to the Women’s Committee and gifts from individuals, the Museum is particularly well-known for its holdings of twentieth-and twenty-first-century American, European, and Asian craft.

With Craft Spoken Here, the Museum seizes the opportunity to experiment with its collection and to understand craft in an international context. Some forty contemporary works from 1960 to the present in ceramic, glass, metal, wood, lacquer, paper, and fiber—some by living, acclaimed artists and others by lesser-known creators—are on view. Representing the Americas, Africa, Asia, and Europe, the works highlight formal qualities that cross cultures, time, and media.

Craft Spoken Here features an array of engaging education programs and interpretive materials, including on-site artist demonstrations and hands-on craftmaking activities for the public.

"Passing the Torch"

Exhibition Passing the Torch at Wheaton Arts in the Gallery of Fine Craft 3/12 - 5/12.

I was asked to be a part of an exhibition on Contemporary Flameworking by Paul Stankard. It was a honor to chosen by someone with such history in the American Studio Glass Movement. Thank you Paul!

"Fraction", Flameworked bullseye glass 

Teaching at Corning

Teaching at Corning Museum of Glass- winter session
Erica Rosenfeld and I are co-teaching a course at the museum 
January 16-21, 2012


Course name - "If you can't take the heat get out of the kitchen"

Chrysler Museum

The Burnt Asphalt Family performs at the Chrysler Museum in November 2011.

To see the video click here.

Glass in All Senses, Brattleboro Museum and Art Center

"The artist in Glass in All Senses investigate the ways in which glass can enhance or alter our perceptions. As the exhibition's title suggests, the focus is not just on visual perception, but on all of the other senses as well- sound, touch, taste, and smell."

This exhibition showed video from The Burnt Asphalt Family performance. Click the link below to see more info.
Show Dates: July 15th- October 23rd 2011
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Vision: Creative Glass Center Biennal, Gallery of Fine Craft, NJ

Show dates- May 21st- July 4th, 2011
Opening June 10th, 3-5, during Glass Weekend at Wheaton Arts

"Clenched", Cast and Lampworked Glass

This Piece is cast Bullseye Glass, 52inches long.

Static- glass scribble

This installation is made from lampworked black glass and a glass photogram.

A dream is the experience of envisioned images, sounds, or other sensations during sleep. Sigmund Freud theorized that dreams are a reflection of human desires and promoted by external stimuli such as our environments. Joe Griffin states "dreams are metaphorical translations of waking expectations. Expectations that cause emotional arousal that is not acted upon during the day." "Static" was an attempt at transforming emotion into form. The inspiration for the work comes from a reoccurring dream. Within the dream, an infinite three-dimensional black line fills my vision and releases a low pitch constant hum. I am without body or form just aware of feeling. The line becomes tense and starts to vibrate like a heart beat monitor. The intensity builds until I wake up perspiring.

Saliva Prints- "Spit Photograms"

The "Spit Print" series contains information that exists from human saliva however through enlargement have removed the physicality and cultural connotations of the saliva. The viscous quality of the images can resemble qualities of glass or other fluid materials. The rings of the bubbles look somewhat like a topographical map of a moon surface giving a sense of micro and macro. This metamorphosis of discarded bodily fluid, something socially found to be disgusting, becomes beautiful and unknown.

Process-  I project and focus light through my saliva onto light sensitive paper and develop it as you would normally with black and white photography. These prints are all at least 36 inches wide. 

"Products which cross such boundaries thereby become products of great cultural attention. What is both inside and outside the body (feces, spittle, urine, menstrual blood, etc...) tends to become taboo because of its ambiguous and anomalous status." -Susan Stewart's, "On Longing"