American Studio Glass: A Survey of the Movement
May 15 - August 24, 2003

Jay Musler
Drop Bowl
Glass, oil paint
1993 5 x 21 x 21

Jay Musler (born 1949; resides San Francisco, CA)

Jay Musler attended the California College of Arts and Crafts in Oakland from 1968 to 1971. He has received fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts and the California Arts Council, and two prizes at World Glass Now at the Hokkaido Museum of Modern Art in Sapporo, Japan. Jay Musler has been a guest artist and lecturer at schools and universities worldwide, with various appearances at the California College of Arts and Crafts. Musler has exhibited widely; in 1999 and 2000 alone, he enjoyed one-man shows at Habatat Galleries, Boca Raton, FL, Butters Gallery, Portland, OR, William Traver Gallery, Seattle, WA, and Heller Gallery in New York City. Group exhibits include American Glassmaking: The First Russian Tour, organized by Steuben in 1990, and The Universe of the Transparent, Musée des Arts Décoratifs, Lausanne, Switzerland, 1989. His work resides in permanent collections of the Corning Museum of Glass, Hokkaido Museum of Modern Art, Toledo Museum of Art, and others. Musler typically superimposes orderly grid-like structures over the layered chaos of painted glass shards, organic material, and other fragments; though his recent wall reliefs are more casual and poetic.

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