JOSHUA HERSHMAN    BIOGRAPHY + STATEMENT

Resides:  Colorado

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Bio:

Josh Hershman received his BFA from the California College of the Arts in 2008, and a Diploma from Sheridan College in 2004.  Originally from Colorado, he first began working with glass in 1997, during high school.  Josh's award-winning work has been shown in exhibitions throughout Canada, Holland, Mexico and the United States.  He is the recipient of a North Lands Creative Glass residency, George and Dorothy Saxe Artistic Merit Scholarship, the Betty Cantor Silent Night Award, among others.

Statement: 

My most recent sculptures encourage new ways of looking at photography, allowing the fluid and optical quality of glass to bring deeper meaning to the photographic image.  I use the camera as a starting point for my experimental creative process - emphasizing the beauty of its design and function by focusing on how images shape our memories, dreams and consciousness.  By taking photographs and joining them with glass, I link two diverse artistic vocabularies together to form a single sculptural vernacular.  As these ideas and images connect, the natural play of light and optics, inherently found in glass, imitates the actual process of taking pictures and exposing negatives.  This collection, entitled, "Day Residue," draws a linear connection with photography, psychology, physics, and contemporary sculpture.