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Artist |
Jerram, Luke |
Title |
HIV (series 2) |
Medium |
Blown, acid-etched, tooled and flameworked glass |
Date |
2012 |
Description |
Luke Jerram (Stroud, England 1974; lives and works in Bristol, England) HIV (series 2), 2012 Blown, acid-etched, tooled and flameworked glass Edition 4/5 4 x 4 x 4 inches Knoxville Museum of Art, 2014 purchase with funds provided by the KMA Guild Jerram is equal parts artist, scientist, and global activist. His inter-disciplinary projects bring together communities and creative minds in the making of multi-media works that explore topics including acoustic science, dream research, and ecological trends. He often uses the seductive medium of glass as a means of creating alluring forms that represent unfathomable destructive forces affecting global populations. His works usually do not include any added color since he is colorblind. HIV is part of Jerram's "Glass Microbiology" series commissioned by the Corning Museum of Glass in which he teamed with virologist Andrew Davidson, 3D programmers, and glassblowers to design and fabricate elegant, ghostly models of deadly microbes one million times their normal size. |
Catalog Number |
2014.09.01 |
Search Terms |
Glassblowing Glass Etching Sculpture |
Credit line |
purchase with funds provided by the KMA Guild |