Joseph Ferguson Stained Glass Panel Constructions

Stained Glass Panel Constructions

Stained Glass Panel Constructions

As a young art student, I had once been inside St. Chapelle in Paris on a stormy day. There, the outside noonday sun touching the windows kindled them to a blaze of reds. Colors projected onto the stone floor seemed to set it afire and reflected upward, warming the interior of the intimate chapel. In a moment, swiftly passing clouds quenched the sun and the windows transformed through purple into smoldering blues.

The air around me pulsed with rich color, like music, ascending and descending. Since then I have tried to recapture that animation of color and light in my work. I wanted to make three-dimensional constructions that suspend colored glass so as to appear to be free-floating. Screen Construction was the most successful means of doing this. The name, though clumsy, has stuck for lack of a better one.

Where Two Meet
Where Two Meet
Harvest Home
Harvest Home
Gemscatter
Gemscatter
Starbirth
Starbirth
Green Gem
Green Gem
Macrolux
Macrolux
Sylvia
Sylvia
Solar Flare
Solar Flare

Where Two Meet

Where Two Meet

Where Two Meet in Stained Glass Panel Constructions
2005, Stained glass panel
  • On exhibit at the Weston Public Library
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There is no surface for stained glass color to flow onto. Like a picture puzzle, it must be constructed, each piece of colored glass cut to shape and fixed into a supporting matrix or armature.

Harvest Home

Harvest Home

Harvest Home in Stained Glass Panel Constructions
2005, Stained glass panel
  • On exhibit at the Weston Public Library
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Gemscatter

Gemscatter in Stained Glass Panel Constructions

Gemscatter

1983, Stained glass screen construction
  • On exhibit at the Weston Public Library
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Creative thought cannot be represented as a straight line. It is more like a spherical implosion.

Starbirth

Starbirth

Starbirth in Stained Glass Panel Constructions
Starbirth in Stained Glass Panel Constructions
Starbirth in Stained Glass Panel Constructions
2001, Stained glass screen construction
  • Artist's collection
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Green Gem

Green Gem in Stained Glass Panel Constructions

Green Gem

2006, Polished copper panel, 22.5" square
  • Artist's collection
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I’ve tried to shape my work in a way that will be beautiful rather than ugly, constructive over damaging.

Macrolux

Macrolux

1970, Stained glass screen construction
  • On exhibit at the Weston Public Library
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Macrolux in Stained Glass Panel Constructions

Sylvia

Sylvia

2008, Stained glass panel
  • On exhibit at the Weston Public Library
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It is often said that art enriches our lives, but more than enrichment, I see art as essential to our existence and the evolving human presence.

Sylvia in Stained Glass Panel Constructions

Solar Flare

Solar Flare

2010, Stained glass screen construction
  • On exhibit at the Weston Public Library
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The qualities of mind that underlie human experience are changeless, perfection, love, compassion, intelligence, and creativity.

Solar flare detail In Memory of Isabel Ferguson
Solar Flare in Stained Glass Panel Constructions

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