Image courtesy of John Kuhn.
Jon Kuhn
American artist Jon Kuhn (1949– ) initially studied ceramics, receiving his BFA at Washburn University in 1972 before transitioning to working in glass while in graduate school, earning his MFA at Virginia Commonwealth University in 1978. Kuhn is a cold glass artist, working exclusively without heat by cutting glass into small segments before polishing and laminating the components into their final forms.
Works
Yellow Fever, 1992. Overall H: 51.2 cm, W: 38 cm, D: 16.3 cm. Collection of The Corning Museum of Glass, Corning, New York. Gift of the Ben W. Heineman Sr. Family (2007.4.164)
Subterranean Guardian, 1988. Overall (with base) H: 60.1 cm, W: 25.5 cm, D: 25 cm. Collection of The Corning Museum of Glass, Corning, New York. Gift of the Ben W. Heineman Sr. Family (2006.4.191)
Rock Garden (4 spheres), 1980. Blown, cut, ground and polished glass. part A: H: 5 in, W: 6.875 in, D: 6 in (H: 12.8 cm, W: 17.5 cm, D: 15.3 cm) part B: H: 4.375 in, W: 6.5 in, D: 6 in (H: 11.2 cm, W: 16.5 cm, D: 15.3 cm) part C: H: 7.125 in, W: 7.4 in, D: 7 in (H: 18.2 cm, W: 19.1 cm, D: 17.8 cm) part D: H: 5.5 in, W: 7.75 in, D: 7 in. (H: 14 cm, W: 19.8 cm, D: 17.8 cm). Collection of the Smithsonian American Art Museum, Gift of Dale and Doug Anderson (1996.85.2A-D).
Bibliography
“Jon Kuhn and Carol Cohen—Ergründung des Innenraumes / Exploration of Inner Space.” Neues Glas, no. 4 (October/December 1988): 281–87.