734
734
2017
cast glass, ceramic 16 h × 14 w × 12 d in (41 × 36 × 30 cm)
cast glass, ceramic 16 h × 14 w × 12 d in (41 × 36 × 30 cm)
estimate: $2,500–3,500
result: $3,024
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provenance: Donated by the artist
The time-consuming process of my artwork helps me to focus and experiment with the ways and means to depict the poetry, symbolism, and magic of the everyday.
Michael Janis
Michael Janis b. 1959
Washington, D.C. artist Michael Janis is the Co-Director of the Washington Glass School & Studio.
As the child of a Chinese/Filipino immigrant and grandson of Greek and German immigrants, his family's histories and struggle to assimilate has been a perpetual source for his narrative work that deals with understanding identity. Trained as an architect, his glass/mixed-media artworks showcase his very disciplined approach to sculpture.
Awarded a Fulbright Scholarship in 2012, Janis went to England's University of Sunderland and taught at the UK's National Glass Centre where he became an Artist-in-Residence at the Institute for International Research in Glass (IIRG).
Massachusetts’ Fuller Craft Museum mounted a solo show of Janis’ glass artwork in 2011, where they have his artwork in their permanent collection. Janis’ artwork is also in the permanent collection of the Art Institute of Chicago, the Tacoma (WA) Museum of Glass, Florida’s Imagine Museum, Fort Wayne, IN, Museum of Art, as well the artwork collection at the US Embassy in Bucharest. The Washington, D.C. Commission on the Arts & Humanities awarded him the 31st Annual Mayor’s Arts Award for Excellence in the Arts.