Josh Opdenaker

Bohemian High acquired a couple of Josh Opdenaker’s aka JOP! pieces.

A little about Josh Opdenaker

Josh Opdenaker’s glass work ranges from the absurd to the edgy and aggressive. In his own words he describes, the beauty of glass sculpting to be the never ending struggle for perfection in theory and in execution. The art is not in the finished piece; the art is in the physical movement of creating the work. His innovative techniques

Josh Opdenaker water pipe and slide
Josh Opdenaker water pipe and slide

and concepts leave much contemplation and introspection and never gets stale by constantly changing subject matter. With such a range of style his work is impossible to generalize or classify, leaving it much in a class of it’s own. Josh states, If nothing else, view my work as original. Technique and craft can be learned, originality cannot. You either have it, or you do not.

 

Copied from “http://www.glassartists.org/JoshuaOpdenaker”

 

Leave a Reply