Rod Vessel
Artist
Joel Philip Myers
(American, born 1937)
Date1989
Mediumglass
Dimensions14 9/16 × 13 × 4 3/4 in. (37 × 33 × 12 cm)
ClassificationsGlass
Credit LineGift of Philip and Nancy Kotler, 2020
Object number2020.19.5
Myers had studied advertising design and later ceramics before he became design director at Blenko Glass Company in West Virginia. After seven years at Blenko’s factory, where he learned glassmaking in the 1960s, he went on to university teaching, and became a pioneering figure in the American Studio Glass Movement. As essentially a self-taught artist working in glass, he created a body of work in the 1970s and 1980s that involved fusing shards of glass to the molten glass bubble with a torch like a collage. Then through coldworking techniques of cutting and grinding, he finished shaping the form by slicing the vessels open and polishing the surfaces. Myers is known for creating dynamic forms and compositions with abstract patterns and coloration as surface imagery in glass, as seen in Rod Vessel.
On View
On viewLocation
- Kotler-Coville Glass Pavilion, 1st floor, gallery, wall case 9
Myers, Shinkle & Co.
