Josh Bernbaum

I am most interested in color, especially color relationships in the works I create in blown glass. Utilizing traditional Italian cane (or striping) techniques in new and personalized ways is the driving force behind most of my current designs. I consider the pieces I make to be documents along the way of a life-long journey of both refining the necessary skills and developing the patience one needs in order to create with this captivating and mesmerizing molten material.

Glass is an unforgiving material that people have worked with for thousands of years, so I’m employing a lot of the same tools and techniques as my contemporaries, but also the glass workers that came before me. Even though these are hundreds-of-years-old processes of working with cane techniques, there are so many looks that have yet to be discovered. I’m still finding new things to do with it, still making pieces no one has ever seen before.   ~ Josh Bernbaum

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