Solo exhibition and site-specific installation
Amon Carter Museum of American Art, Fort Worth, TX
June 2022–February 2023

For Sky Column: Shaking the Shadow, Justin Ginsberg set up a small furnace on the front steps of the Amon Carter Museum of American Art in the summer of 2022 and built the work on foot. He drew each strand from a gather of molten glass, stretching it into a thread as he moved, up to 700 times a day, and covered nearly 150 miles before the season ended. Inside the museum, 8,936 strands, almost 42 miles of glass, hang individually and bring the changing colors of the sky indoors. Created alongside the exhibition Sargent, Whistler, and Venetian Glass, the piece considers the repetitive, often unseen labor behind glassmaking.