Jeremy Lepisto’s Crate Series represents: “goods that are un-orderable, un-receivable or undeliverable.” The first way Lepisto accomplishes this is to make a paradoxical vessel. Suppose you had a shipping container constructed with glass like Lepisto’s crates? You would immediately find it to be extremely impractical. The container would quickly shattered in transit, (not to mention the huge weight of the glass making it immobile) and the goods contained exposed to the elements or spilled. The second way Lepisto creates the ‘undeliverable’ is to call into question what is being stored in the vessel: Lepisto’s crate series depicts drawings of wheat and mailboxes on the reverse side of the glass sheets he constructs. In this way he confuses the viewer with reflection and transparency, inside and out. Lepisto’s crates explore the psychologically disorienting effects of objects in front and behind planar surfaces which deconstructs the opposition of the terms. The precious and the disposable, the protector and the protected merge in the glass itself.
Jeremy Lepisto is Currently President of the Board of Directors of the Glass Arts Society USA and is currently an independent studio artist in Canberra, Australia.
EDUCATION:
1993-1997 BFA with Honors (Majoring in Metals and Glass), New York College of Ceramics at Alfred University, NY
AWARDS/PUBLICATIONS:
2009 “New Glass Review 30”, Neues Glass. Corning, NY
“Glass Unexpected”, Show Catalog, Mobile, AL
“Rising Star”, Wheaton Glass Weekend, Millville, NJ
SELECTED COLLECTIONS/COMMISSIONS:
2009 “Each Unto Its Own” Watertower Series, Museum of Glass, Tacoma
“Shade of Support” Bridge Series, Knoxville Museum, Knoxville, TN
EXPERIENCE:
Member and President of the Board of Directors, Glass Art Society, USA
Technical Assistant to Richard Jolley, Knoxville, TN
Instructor, “Lines and Layers”, Pittsburgh Glass Center, Pittsburgh, PA
Co-Instructor with Mel George, Kilnforming Workshop, TIGA, Toyama, Japan
Fabrication assistant to Warren Langley in construction of “Touching Lightly”, Canberra, Australia
Assistant to Warren Langley in construction of “Microscopia”, Canberra, Australia
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