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| David James | |
Canadian artist David James creates luminous sculptures cast in glass and bold exterior works carved in stone that often incorporate stainless steel. |
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| About the Artist | |
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Tranquillity, gold-ruby
2000 |
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| The Tranquillity series received the New York Museum of Arts and Design Award at an International Glass Invitational Exhibition at Habatat Galleries of Royal Oak, Michigan and has been displayed at the Kentucky Museum of Art & Design. ''The pureness and simplicity of form in the Tranquillity series encourage reflection and offer respite for the soul.The shallow (solid) bowls are a brilliant green, a deep amber that traps eternal champagne in their ascent, or an indescribable blue that varies from sky to cobalt depending on the intensity of the light passing through it.’’
Tranquillity was selected for 500 Glass Objects, published by Lark Books, U.S. in 2005, and Contemporary Glass Art of the World, published by Hebei Publishing in China. |
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Jubilation, grey
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| 'The ‘Jubilation’ series is in the permanent collection of the Musée des beaux-arts, Montréal. The title reflects David's desire to remind us of all the good that we need to celebrate. Inside the 18 inches and sixty-odd pounds of the polished ogive entitled Jubilation-white, a fascinating, exuberant surge of enchanted veils burst forth into the light, captivating the imagination. A smooth mass filled with dreams, energy and movement, the sculpture took first prize at the Tenth Annual Expo-Concours held at La Prairie (Montréal)….Jubilation-grey seems to have imprisoned the grey and white wisps that rise from a fine Cuban cigar or the plasma waves of space.' |
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Mirage
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| ''Delicate evanescent shapes, like graceful, bewitching fairies, slip and slide in the heart of ‘Mirage’''. is how one author describes the piece whose internal imagery reminds James of a peace dove over Temple Mount.
It's a half moon form with a concave indent in the back. |
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Jubilation, citrine
2006 |
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| A view into deep space possible from the Hubble telescope emerges from the golden ogive. Delicately balanced, it points into space as if it could be a vessel with Jules Verne on board. |
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Sunrise
2005 |
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| The heat waves of a new day soar as the sun moves above a dry horizon. |
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Portal
2008 |
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Heaven & Earth
2008 |
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Heaven & Earth
2008 |
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Tsunami
2005 |
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| A curved surface opens into an ocean to reveal the contrasting swells, gentle on the floor and powerful at the surface, tugged by a lunar pull |
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Tsunami, detail
2005 |
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| View into the back of the piece shows the concavity and the powerful swells with spume, and gridlines that suggest satellite tracking of the dangerous beauty of the sea |
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Just to be a boy... !
2008 |
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| As boys prepare for a snowball fight, they build a pile of balls so as not to run out too quickly. Without really realizing the possible consequences, they will innocently put a hard kernel of ice or stone in the centre. I know for that's what I did, sometimes! This three part piece captures such a snowball! |
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Fiery Pearl - huoyan zhu - 火焰 珠
2008 |
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Flaming Mountain, huoyan shan
2009 |
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| Huoyan shan is one of the tribulations that the monkey has to pass through when travelling from China to India in Journey to the West which is one of the most famous Buddhist allegories in Chinese history. |
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Caught by the Moon
2009 |
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Tranquillity, blue
2007 |
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| The Tranquillity series received the New York Museum of Arts and Design Award at an International Glass Invitational Exhibition at Habatat Galleries of Royal Oak, Michigan and has been displayed at the Kentucky Museum of Art & Design. |
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Pinnacle
2009 |
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Pinnacle - detail
2009 |
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Pinnacle - detail
2009 |
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Portal, amber
2010 |
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| Series started in 1990s, here one sees the large one whose dimensions are provided and a smaller one in burgundy, H. 26 L. 32 W 6 |
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| Education and biography | |
| 1994-1997 Kilncast glass workshops and assistant to Colin Reid, Stroud, England. 1995. Glass blowing, cold work. Glass School, Orrefors, Sweden. History of Art Glass. Glass studies- Sotheby’s, London, England. 1994. Bild-Werk Glass Institute - Introduction to hot and cold glass, Frauenau, Germany. 1983: Masters in Business Administration (M.B.A.), York University, Toronto, Ont. Canada. 1972: Graduate diploma in journalism, 1st place. University of Western Ontario, London, Ont. Canada. 1971: Bachelor of Arts (B.A.), Political science and history, Trent University, Peterborough. Ont. Canada. |
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