JAMES CARPENTER
SCHANTZ GALLERIES
“My artwork began in film where I used glass for its uniquely responsive projection surface. This led me to a particular interest in light and its significance in our experience of life – not so much in the sense that it allows us to see the world outside ourselves, but in its capacity to accumulate information along its journey to the eye. I look at glass as a material that is capable of revealing light through its wide ranging material properties: transmission; reflection; refraction; and diffusion. It has a special ability to surprise, delight and engage us with our environment in a way that no other material can quite achieve.” Light Matters: Glass Beyond Transparency with James Carpenter by Thomas Schielke December, 2013
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James Carpenter 7 WTC An example of small scale work.
Schantz Galleries is now representing commissioned architectural installations and gallery scale works by artist and designer James Carpenter. James Carpenter is known in the glass community as one of the pioneers in the medium of glass as a contemporary art form. His early career was rooted in collaborative projects with Dale Chihuly and helping with the development with Pilchuck School in the early 70's.
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Since 1979, James Carpenter has led James Carpenter Design Associates to approach large scale architectural projects. JCDA has been recognized with numerous awards, including the National Environmental Design Award from the Smithsonian Institution and the American Institute of Architects Honor Award. Mr. Carpenter received a MacArthur Fellowship in 2004. Carpenter's most prominent projects include the illuminated Stainless Steel Curtain Wall of 7 World Trade Center; Sky Reflector-Net at Fulton Center, Ice Falls at the Hearst Tower all in New York and most recently a major addition to the Israel Museum, Jerusalem, Israel. We have included images and information on these projects with this presentation. Recently James Carpenter has been revisiting ideas about incorporating his design components into residential scale works. We have included examples of James’s residential projects. We are pleased to introduce the work of James Carpenter into our client’s art collections with the gallery scale works or to explore the possibilities of larger scale architectural installations. For more information please contact Jim Schantz regarding the works of James Carpenter.
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7 WORLD TRADE CENTER NEW YORK CITY, USA 2007
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JCDA was engaged by Silverstein Properties to work with Skidmore Owings and Merrill on the design of the exterior envelope, with a particular focus on the transformer vault cladding at the tower's base. For the 80 foot high podium wall, JCDA created a cladding system comprised of two layers of stainless steel screen with a 7 inch internal cavity meeting the Con Edison airflow requirements for the electrical transformers. The stainless steel screen panels are made of triangular prismatic wires orientated vertically and welded in a specified pattern and angle rotation. During the day the outer layer of triangular wire reflects light according to the wires orientation. At night, LED lighting between the layers of screen are programmed to both respond to passing pedestrians and to mark the transition of dawn and dusk. Day and night the optimized porosity of the wall accentuates a luminous sense of depth.
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SKY REFLECTOR-NET FULTON CENTER, NEW YORK CITY, USA 2014
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JCDA collaborated with their long time engineers, Schlaich Bergermann und Partner (SBP) to conceptualize an optical device delicately suspended within the opaque interior of the new design for the roof cone. The form and refined of the artwork primarily serves to gather a broader image of the sky and fold it into the spatial experience of the atrium while simultaneously directing daylight down into the Transit Center, concealing the structural framing and mechanical equipment within the dome.
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ISRAEL MUSEUM JERUSALEM, ISRAEL 2010
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JCDA’s vision for the five-year expansion and renewal of the Israel Museum’s 20-acre campus was to reorganize the campus plan and poetically moderate Jerusalem’s intense natural light within new, innovative all-glass pavilions. A sequential and engaging experience of subtle light effects provides intuitive wayfinding, enhancing the experience of the Museum’s art, architecture, and surrounding landscape. The Israel Museum’s campus enhancement project was designed to resonate with the original design vision of Alfred Mansfeld and Dora Gad, infusing light and a clarity of circulation into a built environment that had changed tremendously since its opening in 1965.
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ISRAEL MUSEUM JERUSALEM, ISRAEL 2010
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JCDA designed 95,000 square feet of new construction, including three Entrance Pavilions standing at the front of the campus housing ticketing, restaurant, and retail, a main Gallery Entrance Pavilion providing centralized access to the Museum’s main galleries, and a major belowground Route of Passage that connects the two parts of the campus.
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STRUCTURAL GLASS PRISMS CHRISTIAN THEOLOGICAL SEMINARY CHAPEL, INDIANAPOLIS, USA 1987
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Designed when working with the architect Edward Larrabee Barnes and the client, this seminal installation represents Carpenter’s transition from work in film to work in architecture. This window actively immerses the viewer with light, presenting a meditative connection to nature. The windows created for the Christian Theological Seminary's chapel transmit light information into the chapel, transforming the space into a reflecting vessel. The 32 foot high glass blades are stabilized with horizontal panels of dichroic glass, creating an all glass structure. Two reflected and two transmitted images are projected from each horizontal glass section, creating reflection and transmission patterns of remarkable complexity that change over the course of the day. The colors change as natural light moves into the room from the southeast before noon to midafternoon, tracking a subtle and complex path through the space.
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PERISCOPE WINDOW MINNEAPOLIS, MN 1995-97
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The Periscope Window redefines the idea of a view by collecting information from beyond the window’s sight lines. Located in the stairway and facing a view obstructed by a fence only feet away and the neighboring building beyond, the artwork’s lenses, mirrors and etched glass are tuned to reveal a richly textured and temporal sense of nature, embodying the passage of the sun, moon and clouds and the movement of birds, branches and leaves.
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PERISCOPE WINDOW, (detail) MINNEAPOLIS, MN 1995-97
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PERISCOPE WINDOW, (detail) MINNEAPOLIS, MN 1995-97
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RONDEL SCREEN Private Residence, New York City 2015
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The Rondel Screen incorporates hand blown rondels, each unique lens encapsulated within an identical frame consisting of anodized aluminum and etched glass front and back. This serial approach results in a lenticular device that can be arranged in response to its location, orchestrating variations of a singular exterior views. This cinematic work captures images and activation of view beyond sight lines and projects both light and images into and upon the work. These are like ‘camera’ systems — constantly capturing and projecting changing qualities of light and image.
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James Carpenter studied architecture and sculpture at the Rhode Island School of Design, graduating in 1972. He actively exhibited light-based art works, while working from 1972 through 1982 as a consultant at Corning Glass Works, developing new glass materials. These research projects were aimed at potential architectural applications. Since establishing James Carpenter Design Associates in 1979, Carpenter has been integrating a synthesis of light into building structures. The studio is a collaborative environment, encouraging an exchange of ideas between architects, material and structural engineers, environmental engineers, and fabricators.
JAMES CARPENTER New York City
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Carpenter is the recipient of numerous awards, including the American Academy of Arts and Letters Architecture Award, the American Institute of Architects Honor Award, Glass Art Society Lifetime Achievement Award, and a MacArthur Foundation Fellowship.
Education Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, Rhode Island, BFA, Sculpture, 1972 Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, Loeb Fellowship, 1989-90 Teaching Aalborg University workshop, Copenhagen, Denmark AHO, KHiO and HiBU Oslo, Norway Columbia University, New York, Adjunct Professor Harvard University, Graduate School of Design, Massachusetts Eliot Noyes Professorship Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Massachusetts Page Hazelgrove Visiting Professor Oskar Von Miller Forum, Technical University of Munich, Munich, Germany Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, Associate Professor RISD, Interdisciplinary course, Providence, RI Royal College of Art, London, England, Associate Lecturer Royal Danish Academy School of Design workshop, Bornholm, Denmark School of Architecture at the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts, Copenhagen Visiting Professor University of California, Berkeley, Sculpture Instructor University of Chicago Mellon Fellowship, Interaction of Light and Matter Taught with Sidney Nagel University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Visiting Professor, Structures University of Stuttgart, Light Weight Structures Institute, Germany Visiting Professor
Selected Awards AIA/COTE Top Ten Green Projects Academy Award in Architecture, American Academy of Arts and Letters AIA Architecture Merit Award, 7 World Trade Center (with Skidmore Owings & Merrill), New York, NY AIA National Honor Award, US Courthouse for the Utah District AJ Awards, Best Collaboration, Sky Reflector-Net Americans for the Arts, Year In Review, Sky Reflector-Net Architectural Lighting Light & Architecture Design Awards Special Citation, Midway Crossings Chicago Building Congress Merit Award, Midway Crossings Concrete Reinforcing Steel Institute Design Award Domus Israel Award for Architectural Design Glass Art Society Lifetime Achievement Award GSA Design Awards, US Courthouse for the Utah District IESNA Paul Waterbury Award, 7WTC Podium Light Wall Master Builders Association, Project of the Year, 20 Martin Place Mondo arc, darc awards, Best Interior Lighting, Sky Reflector-Net RSA, Honorary Royal Designer for Industry (HonRDI), United Kingdom SCUP Honor, Duke University, Hybrid Landscape West Campus SCUP Merit Award, Midway Crossings Villum and Velux Foundation Award
Devon Art Walls 2009-2013 Devon Energy Headquarters Oklahoma City, Oklahoma
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