Sculpture in black hand-blown glass by Jeff Zimmerman

Unique single serpentine light sculpture in black hand-blown glass. Designed and made by Jeff Zimmerman, USA, 2017. 18.5" L x 9.5" W x 9" H.

Work donated by R & Company, which is owned by a CWS Parent.

JEFF ZIMMERMAN

A celebrated master glass artist, Jeff Zimmerman (b. 1968) belongs to a group of daring contemporary artists who employ the ancient material as a means of expression rather than an end in itself. 

His sculptural pieces exploit techniques of advanced glassmaking and the defining properties of glass itself to evoke a dimension of experience where things are happening that we can feel but not necessarily define. His signature organic shapes are mysterious but welcoming, disquieting yet familiar. 

Drawn formally from nature, they result from the dramatic pushing, pulling, dripping and spinning actions through which they took shape — processes that Zimmerman employs to suggest the mutability of the worlds around us and within us.

Raised by a painter mother and a sculptor stepfather at the Anderson Ranch Arts Center in Colorado, his early exposure to nature remains a vital force in his work. Zimmerman studied the classical Venetian approach to glass blowing and spent summers on staff at the Pilchuk School in Seattle, where he was exposed to master Italian glass technicians Lino Tagliapietro and Pino Signoretto. Jeff began his apprenticeship, honing his technique while developing his own artistic voice. He was exposed to and influenced by contemporary artists including Maya Lin and Kiki Smith and would go on to create work in glass for them.

Jeff’s training also includes working as a master glass blower at C.I.R.V.A., a contemporary design and art center in Marseille, France. While making experimental sculpture, Jeff worked with such esteemed artists as Robert Wilson, Gaetano Pesce and Robert Morris. He was also a member of a collaborative, experimental glass blowing group, the B Team, which traveled to universities as visiting artists and received the BESSY award from the Dance Theater Workshop for their performances, as well as the Tiffany Award. Their work was exhibited at the New Museum for Contemporary Art in New York and the Grand Arts Center in Kansas City. A tour in Japan shortly followed.

Zimmerman has exhibited at galleries and institutions internationally, including Sean Kelly Gallery, New York, Emmanuel Perrotin Gallery, Paris, the Brooklyn Museum of Art, and the American Crafts Museum. In 2011 he completed commissions for the Hyundai Capital headquarters in Seoul, Korea, and Irvine, California. His work is in the permanent collections of the Corning Museum of Glass, New York, the Boghossian Foundation, Belgium, and MUDAC in Lausanne, Switzerland, as well as esteemed private collections worldwide. Zimmerman currently lives and works in Brooklyn, New York.

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