Jamie Harris is a glass artist living in New York City. A graduate of Brown University, Harris has studied at many of the most renowned glass schools in the country, including Pilchuck Glass School, Rhode Island School of Design, Penland School of Crafts, Haystack Mountain School of Craft, and The Studio of The Corning Museum of Glass. He has also studied with many of the most renowned glass artists in the world, including Dante Marioni, Josiah McElheny, Benjamin Moore, Kathy Eliot and Ben Edols.
Early on in his career, Harris began turning away from his technical explorations of design and craft and began to approach his glass sculptural work more from a painterly perspective than as a traditional glassblower. His work is about loud splashes of colour, and capturing the innate way glass transmits, reflects, and absorbs colour. All of Harris’ work shares a love of, and foundation in, colour and colour patterning, merging a classic Venetian technical sensibility with a modernist painterly approach. Harris’ sensibility in terms of using colour is akin to the emotional gesture of New York modernist artists like Rothko and Nolan from whom he draws inspiration.
During the September 2014 Instructor Collaborative Residency with Moshe Bursuker, the artists developed a series combining Harris’ interest in colour and pattern with Bursuker’s enthusiasm for image and form. The collaborative work is the result of experimentation to develop a unique joint style as they “mashed-up” their approaches to the material.
Harris’ work can be seen in the Museum of American Glass and Glasmuseet Ebeltoft. He has received numerous fellowships and awards, including those from The Corning Museum of Glass, Creative Glass Centre of America, Brooklyn Arts Council, and the Metropolitan Contemporary Glass Group.