About The Work
Jason Middlebrook's trippy Fun With Fungi 2010 series of 40 blown-glass mushroom lamps reflects the artist's fascination with bringing the pastoral into an unnatural context. Springing from a circular black base, each unique mushroom references the wild fungus' natural form while incorporating warm, hallucinogenic color and a whimsy that is distinctly Middlebrook.
Fun With Fungi 2010 is not Middlebrook's first foray into crafting funky mushrooms from glass. In 2009 he installed 25 fiberglass fungi in the garden of the Aspen Art Museum, toying, as usual, with the relationship between nature and artifice.
About Jason Middlebrook
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Blown glass and lighting element
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About The Work
Jason Middlebrook's trippy Fun With Fungi 2010 series of 40 blown-glass mushroom lamps reflects the artist's fascination with bringing the pastoral into an unnatural context. Springing from a circular black base, each unique mushroom references the wild fungus' natural form while incorporating warm, hallucinogenic color and a whimsy that is distinctly Middlebrook.
Fun With Fungi 2010 is not Middlebrook's first foray into crafting funky mushrooms from glass. In 2009 he installed 25 fiberglass fungi in the garden of the Aspen Art Museum, toying, as usual, with the relationship between nature and artifice.
About Jason Middlebrook
From The Magazine
- Art 101: Color Palettes by Decade: 10 Artworks to Give Your Home a Blast from the Past
- Interviews & Features: Jeff Bailey on How Hudson, New York, Became a Viable Base for an Ambitious Art Gallery
- Interviews & Features: weR2’s Sara Meltzer on the Rise of the Artist-Designed Object
- News & Events: 6 Artworks to Invest in This September
- Interviews & Features: Jason Middlebrook on Returning to Nature—and a Bartering Society—Through His Art
- Each lamp measures 10" tall.
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