Richard Jolley

Art Brokerage: Richard Jolley American Glass Artist: Richard Jolley was born in Wichita, Kansas in 1952 and then moved in his youth to Oak Ridge, Tennessee. In 1970, the artist began his studies at Tusculum College in Greenville, Tennessee, studying glass under Michael Taylor. Taylor was then invited to create his next program at George Peabody College in Nashville (now a part of Vanderbilt University) where Jolley later completed his B.F.A. In the fall of that year, Jolley further polished his technique at Penland School of Crafts in North Carolina under the instruction of Richard Ritter. In his multi-faceted archetypal vocabulary Richard Jolley explores the human body's beauty and dynamism. Jolley's work is a tantalizing combination of familiar images that are rearranged and juxtaposed in an open-ended dialogue with the viewer and each other. Jolley explores issues of the human condition, nature, and the universe while shifting the vernacular by the use of glass, color and contemporary symbolism. Listings wanted by Art Brokerage.