Sky Column: Shaking the Shadow
Solo - exhibition and Site-Specific Installation
June 2022 - February 2023
The Amon Carter Museum of American Art, Fort Worth, TX
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.
Sky Column: Shaking the Shadow
25’ x 10’ x 10’
Hand-pulled glass, 8,936 strands
2022
Installation view, Amon Carter Museum of American Art, Fort Worth, Texas
Sky Column: Shaking the Shadow
25’ x 10’ x 10’
Hand-pulled glass, 8,936 strands
2022
Installation view, Amon Carter Museum of American Art, Fort Worth, Texas
Sky Column: Shaking the Shadow
25’ x 10’ x 10’
Hand-pulled glass, 8,936 strands
2022
Installation view, Amon Carter Museum of American Art, Fort Worth, Texas
Installation, a view through the strands, and the completed column. Amon Carter Museum of American Art, 2022.
Original film and music by Jeff Gibbons - 5:53 - 2022
Strings
A short documentary following the making of Sky Column: Shaking the Shadow on the steps of the Amon Carter Museum of American Art, summer 2022.