Made as an Artist in Residence, Corning Museum of Glass, Corning, NY, 2015
Exhibition, Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond, VA, 2015
COExist, two-person exhibition with Yuka Otani, Corning, NY, 2015
Pareidolia Universe
Ginsberg films glass through polarizing lenses, revealing stress held inside the material as fields of light. The forms that appear on screen look solar, with glowing lobes and dark centers that recall images of the sun's surface and corona. Their actual source lies at the opposite end of scale. Pressure shifts the molecules within the glass, and those changes alter the light passing through it. Pareidolia is the habit of finding familiar pictures in chance patterns, and here the eye reaches for a star. Glass usually helps us see by disappearing. In this work it shows its own interior, a molecular event projected at the scale of the sky.
Pareidolia Universe
Video, 11:11
2015
Installation view, COExist, pop-up exhibition
Corning, NY
Pareidolia Universe
Video, 11:11
2015
Installation view, InLIght, The Virginia Museum of Fine Art Richmond, VA
Pareidolia Universe (excerpt)
Video, 1:00
2015
Excerpt from the 11:11 exhibition version of a 45-minute drawing
More on this work
Glass: The UrbanGlass Art Quarterly, "When the Endpoint Is Process: Justin Ginsberg's Aggressive Investigation of Glass in Flux," by John Drury, No. 141, Winter 2015–16 (PDF) →
Corning Museum of Glass Artist Video and Interview →
Visitors at the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond, VA, 2015 →
Watch the full video (11:11) on Vimeo →