ArtBabble: Josiah McElheny

Josiah McElheny: History & Originality

Art21 — Tue, 16 Mar 2010 00:57:33 +0000

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Exclusive Episode #077: Artist Josiah McElheny discusses the relationship between artworks and the context in which they were created, highlighting the distinctions between history and the personal and interpretive reinvention of historical facts.

Josiah McElheny: "The Alpine Cathedral and the City-Crown"

Art21 — Tue, 01 Dec 2009 21:34:23 +0000

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Exclusive Episode #011: Josiah McElheny discusses his installation "The Alpine Cathedral and the City-Crown" (2007) at the Museum of Modern Art in New York.

Josiah McElheny creates finely crafted, handmade glass objects that he combines with photographs, text, and museological displays to evoke notions of meaning and memory. McElheny's work takes as its subject the history of Modernism and the impact it has made on society, aesthetics, and contemporary thought.

Josiah McElheny: "Conceptual Drawings for a Chandelier, 1965"

Art21 — Tue, 01 Dec 2009 21:32:43 +0000

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Exclusive Episode #013: Josiah McElheny discusses his film Conceptual Drawings for a Chandelier, 1965 (2005), shot at The Metropolitan Opera in New York.

Josiah McElheny: Assistant Anders Rydstedt

Art21 — Mon, 17 Aug 2009 15:18:04 +0000

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Exclusive Episode #069: Long-time assistant and collaborator Anders Rydstedt discusses the differences between creating traditional forms in glass—such as vases—with Josiah McElheny's sculptural objects and installations.

Josiah McElheny: Beauty & Seduction

Art21 — Tue, 07 Apr 2009 05:54:05 +0000

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Exclusive Episode #062: Artist Josiah McElheny discusses the intentionally problematic nature of beauty and seduction in his "Total Reflective Abstraction" (2004) installation, on view at Donald Young Gallery in Chicago, as well as works by fellow artists and architectural masterpieces such as Renaissance palaces.

Josiah McElheny: Assistant Martha Friedman

Art21 — Mon, 06 Apr 2009 05:39:35 +0000

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Exclusive Episode #057: Watch artist Josiah McElheny and assistant Martha Friedman transform clear hand-blown glass objects into mirrored surfaces in his Brooklyn, NY studio.