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Object NameSculpture
Artist / Maker
Josh Simpson
((American, b. 1949))
Date2013
MediumBlown and formed glass with glass cane.
Dimensions11 x 15 x 14 in. (27.9 x 38.1 x 35.6 cm)
ClassificationsSculpture
Credit LineCommissioned by University Museums. An Art in State Buildings Project for the Veterinary Medicine Research Labs. In the Art on Campus Collection, University Museums, Iowa State University, Ames, Iowa.
Object numberU2013.16
Status
Not on viewCollections
CultureAmerican
Label Text"The dark exteriors of Portals give no hint of their startling interiors, and the experience of gazing upon these brave new worlds is literally magnified by the lenses ground into their flat tops. Portals seem especially intimate and accessible, inviting the eye in for a closer look at the lushness of their interior life. Their inky, opaque exteriors are suggestive, too, of dark swirling oceans, hiding bright and exotic sea life within."
--Tina Oldknow, Curator of Modern Glass, Corning Museum of Glass, 2000-2015
SignedSigned Joshua Simpson.
Locations
- (not entered) Iowa State University, Brunnier Main Storage
Object Name: Children's Bracelets, pair
Boston & Sandwich Glass Co.
Object number: UM2012.285ab
