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Flowing Transformations: Kiln Formed Glass Vessels of Benton Jones

The Sandwich Glass Museum is proud to present highlighted works from this talented and well-known artist who is the second artist invited to exhibit in the newly constructed Gallery for Contemporary Glass at the Museum. The Boston & Sandwich Glass Co. will forever be known for their innovations in pressing glass. The new gallery space is designed to showcase artists who are likewise innovative in their use of glass.

Benton Jones is a prolific multi-media sculptor who is also multi-stylistic. He has been recognized as imaginative and talented by both critics and collectors. The marriage of artistic perspective with well crafted glass and metal sculpture has given rise to a compelling body of work.

Benton Jones redefines the realm of possibilities once thought limited in kiln fired glass. His most recent creations have copper and bronze encapsulated inside layers of glass. Others have copper, glass and bronze woven together, then stretched, creating basket-like patterns within a clear glass shell. He captures the character of molten glass by “freezing” it in mid-motion, giving this work a feeling of fluidity. He has created glass sculpture from thick plate glass that was once the heart of the old Provincetown Aquarium, which existed from 1963 to 1985. This exhibit is entitled Oceanic Experience.

Benton Jones is passionate about his art. By applying his remarkable knowledge of the complex properties that molten glass possesses, Benton is pushing glass sculpture to new limits.

He has held exhibitions at the Ecoles Des Beaux –Arts, Fontainbleau, France; Antwerp Academy of Fine Arts in Antwerp, Belgium; Cape Museum of Fine Art in Dennis, MA; Copley Society Gallery, Boston, MA; his ongoing show at his own Millstone Sculpture Gallery in Brewster, MA. as well as several other well-known museums and galleries. His accolades, awards and achievements are too many to mention. One of his recent awards was 1st prize for sculpture at “The Art Department” International Art Contest, N.S.W., Australia.

He has studied at several venerable institutions including the Corning Studio and Corning University, Ecoles Des Beaux-Arts, Carnegie-Mellon Univserity to name but a few. He has sculpture degrees from Carnegie Mellon University and the Johnson Atelier Technical Institute of Sculpture. Benton came to Brewster in 1994 to construct his own foundry and now has a successful enterprise. He loves to interact with his growing audience of collectors, artists and tourists.