Guest Artist | Jes Fan

Watch 2025 Rakow Commission Artist Jes Fan work live in our Amphitheater Hot Shop for a whole week! While at the Museum, Fan will collaborate with the Museum’s Hot Glass Team in creating work in their unique and distinctive style.

Visitors will have the opportunity to watch the action in daily live demonstrations!

Jes Fan’s interdisciplinary practice explores the intersection of biology and identity, incorporating living matter, as well as the invisible substances that shape how we experience the world, like melanin and hormones, into their sculptures. Through this process, Fan looks at how these highly politicized materials form our understanding of the social constructs of race and gender, and the absurd pursuit to locate these in quantifiable amounts of material.

Originally trained in glassmaking, Fan combines hand-blown cellular glass forms with casts made from sections of human bodies, cast in aqua resin and bearing flesh-like tones. Removed from the context of the figure, these forms take on abstract qualities, repeated and distorted across architectural armatures, suggesting an experience of the body that is increasingly intertwined with and mediated by technology.

You may also like the following events from Corning Museum of Glass:

• This Thursday, 26th February, 05:30 pm, Ennion Happy Hour in Corning
• Next month, 20th March, 07:00 pm, AMP’D | You Design It, We Make It (Members-only) in Corning
• Next month, 23rd March, 05:30 pm, Evening for Educators in Corning

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