JON WARREN LENTZ

In an art world frenzied by novelty, Jon Warren Lentz is quietly forging an original art, a distinctive body of work in an unusual medium. His medium is glass, in which he paints by sculpting, sand-carving forms into the glass on both sides. The carving commences with a sustained blast, no erasures are possible. The surfaces of the glass vary according to the amount of time the surface is blasted. For this reason, each work by Lentz is rich in textures with variable depths that caress the sight and invite touch. Each responds to the changing light of day and year, thus becoming a matrix for light, prismatic color and shadow.

Primary location: Santa Cruz