Matthew Szosz
Artist Matthew Szösz, who uses glass as his primary medium, was invited to participate in the Emanation 2017 residency and exhibition project at WheatonArts where he furthered exploration into his inflatable series. Here we see him in his studio at WheatonArts setting up layers of geometrically cut plate glass and fire paper for placement into the annealing oven.
Matthew Szosz
Artist Matthew Szösz, who uses glass as his primary medium, was invited to participate in the Emanation 2017 residency and exhibition project at WheatonArts where he furthered exploration into his inflatable series. Here we see him in the WheatonArts Glass Studio contemplating a piece he just removed from it’s cooling cycle in the annealing oven.
Matthew Szosz
Artist Matthew Szösz, who uses glass as his primary medium, was invited to participate in the Emanation 2017 residency and exhibition project at WheatonArts where he furthered exploration into his inflatable series. Here we see him in the WheatonArts Glass Studio, with assistance from WheatonArts Glass Studio Floor Manager Skitch Manion, removing from the annealing oven a heated set-up for ready inflation.
Matthew Szosz
Artist Matthew Szösz, who uses glass as his primary medium, was invited to participate in the Emanation 2017 residency and exhibition project at WheatonArts where he furthered exploration into his inflatable series. Here we see him in the WheatonArts Glass Studio, with assistance from WheatonArts Glass Studio Floor Manager Skitch Manion, inflating a piece hot from the annealing oven.
Matthew Szosz
Artist Matthew Szösz, who uses glass as his primary medium, was invited to participate in the Emanation 2017 residency and exhibition project at WheatonArts where he furthered his exploration into his inflatable series. Here we see him in the WheatonArts Glass Studio cold shop putting the finishing touches on his piece, Horologes.
Matthew Szosz Pastille
Pastille, Matthew Szösz, 2017, glass, created as part of the Emanation 2017 invitational residency and exhibition project at WheatonArts.
Matthew Szosz untitled(inflatable) no.73
untitled(inflatable)no.73, Matthew Szösz, 2017, glass, created as part of the Emanation 2017 invitational residency and exhibition project at WheatonArts.
Matthew Szosz
Matthew Szösz creates new approaches to form by developing innovative methods of employing materials. Born in Rhode Island, Matthew Szösz has received a BFA (1996), a BID (Industrial Design)(1997), and a MFA/Glass (2007) from Rhode Island School of Design. He has won several awards, including the 2009 Jutta Cuny-Franz, a L. C. Tiffany Foundation grant, and the 2015 Borowsky Prize. He has been an artist in residence at university programs across the US, Denmark, Japan and Australia, and taught workshops and classes at Toyama Glass Institute, Penland School of Crafts, Pilchuck Glass School, Virginia Commonwealth University, Pittsburgh Glass Center, and Public Glass in San Francisco, where he was executive director. He has exhibited at the Renwick Gallery of the Smithsonian, the Boston Museum of Fine Arts, GlazenHuis (Belgium) and the Museum of Art and Design in NYC, among others.
In 2010 he founded Hyperopia Projects, curatorial/ project group based in the USA that advances cross-genre material based sculpture and critical thought.
He currently lives and works with his wife, Anna Mlasowsky, in Seattle, WA.
