Glass artist Jamie Harris has a talent for capturing the beauty and movement of glassmaking in static objects, a skill exemplified in a series of recent sculptures called Infusion Blocks.
The works present themselves as rich, vibrant paintings with cascading color-century modernist painters such as Mark Rothko, Kenneth Nolan, and Ellsworth Kelly, as well as by the extensive color theory of Josef Albers. The sense of action that many of these artists have brought to their canvases through paint is something that Harris strives for in his glass works. “I wanted to capture that flowing sense of color and movement I see when glass is at 2,000 degrees,” Harris states.
