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Richard JolleySculptor of Glass
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Richard Jolley is one of the USA's best known contemporary glass sculptors. He has earned his first museum retrospective looking at his work from 1985 to today. |
Title: Floating Blue, 2002
Artist: Richard Jolley (American)
Medium: Furnace Worked Glass, Free Form Additive Sculptural Technique Diamond Wheel Cuts
Image Courtesy: Montgomery Museum of Fine Arts
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The exhibit includes ten different categories of work. Jolley favored glass and bronze among other media. |
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Visitors to the exhibit will have the opportunity to view vessels, monoliths, blue line drawings, reliefs, torsos, busts, works on paper, mixed media assemblages, and the Tabula Rasa series. Jolley is best known for his critically acclaimed Totem Series that integrates busts, torsos, and other forms into colorful assemblages, some of which stand six feet tall. |
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The exhibit has already visited 8 locations with four more currently scheduled. The Montgomery Museum of Fine Arts has added a small concurrent exhibition of Tommie Rus created glass vessels. She is Richard Jolley's assistant and also his wife.
Richard Jolley : Sculptor of Glass 1985 - Present
Montgomery Museum of Fine Arts:
December 9, 2006 - February 4, 2007
Mitchell Art Gallery of St. John's:
February 25, 2007 - April 22, 2007
Grounds for Sculpture:
May 12, 2007 - September 30, 2007
Palm Springs Art Museum:
October 16, 2007 - January 6, 2008