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 made the work by walking. He drew each strand from a gather of molten glass, stretching it into a 25-foot thread as he walked, up to 700 times a day. Over the Texas summer he walked nearly 150 miles. Inside the museum, 8,936 strands, almost 42 miles of glass, hang individually and bring the changing colors of the sky indoors. Made alongside the exhibition Sargent, Whistler, and Venetian Glass, the work considers the repetitive, often unseen labor behind glassmaking.