RICHARD JOLLEY SOLO EXHIBITION

CURATED BY FAY GOLD
AT JENNIFER BALCOS GALLERY 

Opening thursday march 10
from 6-10pm

RICHARD JOLLEY

OPENS MARCH 10 FROM 6PM TO 10PM
CONTINUES THROUGH APRIL 10, 2022
THE ARTIST WILL BE PRESENT
JENNIFER BALCOS GALLERY
1183 Howell Mill Road

With a career that spans over 40 years, Richard Jolley is one of today’s most accomplished glass sculptors. His figurative work uses organic forms to explore the breadth of the human experience; from the body to nature to science. Born in Wichita, Kansas, Jolley moved to Oak Ridge, Tennessee in his youth. He has continued to call East Tennessee his home, even making the unconventional decision to establish his glass studio in Knoxville in 1975. Jolley began his fine art studies at Tusculum College in 1970 and later completed his BFA at George Peabody College (now part of Vanderbilt University). He has participated in over 64 solo museum and gallery exhibitions across the country and internationally, and his work is included in the collections of several prominent institutions including the Carnegie Museum of Art, Corning Museum of Glass, Knoxville Museum of Art, Los Angeles County Museum of Modern Art, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, and the Renwick Gallery of the Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington, DC. 

In May 2014, Jolley’s steel and glass masterwork Cycle of Life: Within the Power of Dreams and the Wonder of Infinity, opened at the Knoxville Museum of Art. Five years in the making, Cycle of Life is one of the largest figural glass assemblages in the world. The installation is composed of thousands of blown glass and steel elements and symbolically depicts six successive phases of life: Primordial, Emergence, Desire, Tree of Life, Contemplation, and Sky. “It’s a figurative range of people and nature,” Jolley says. “The question was how to distill the life cycle to fit the space and answer the questions: Who are we? Where are we? Where do we come from? Where are we going?” Source: Craft in America 

Fay Gold at
Jennifer Balcos Gallery
1183 Howell Mill Road Atlanta, GA Atlanta, GA 30318
Gallery Hours: Tuesday - Saturday 11am- 5pm

fay.g@faygoldgallery.com 404-9094 jenniferbalcosgallery@gmail.com 404-441-5745

For nearly 30 years in Atlanta, Fay Gold has pioneered one of the nation’s top contemporary art galleries. She carved a professional niche that draws from her Art History/ Drama degree from Adelphi University and her 15 year career as an art teacher in her own school. In 2019, she was named a Legend (the names who need no introduction) by Atlanta Magazine’s “Our City’s Most Powerful Leaders” edition. She did groundbreaking exhibitions of artists such as George Segal, Robert Rauschenberg, Irving Penn, Robert Mapplethorpe, Cindy Sherman, Alex Katz, Andres Serrano, Keith Haring, Jean-Michel Basquiat and Radcliffe Bailey. She created “Fay’s World” and was obsessed with generating new ideas. Currently, a play is being written which is based on her memoirs entitled “Basquiat’s Cat”.`