Red Poppy from the Contiguous Fragment Series

Joel Phillip Myers manipulated color and transparency as he investigated the potential use of glass as an artistic medium. Of vessels like this one, he stated: “My work is concerned with drawing, painting, playing with color and imagery on glass… I prefer the spherical, three-dimensional surface to a flat one… as I paint and draw on the glass, the glass form receives the drawing, adapts to its shape, distorts and expands it as it clothes and envelops itself…