Works

 

ARTIST

 

Javier Gómez

The work of this Spanish sculptor shows the way in which Javier Gómez has reached his highest maturity status in creativity, both in the conceptual as much as in the artistic fields. 
The evolution of the artist, from pure and formal proposals that characterized his previous sculptures, to a clear bet on the development of colour in his pieces of art. Once he has exceeded in the reaction of space and light with and within glass, he now maximizes the effect with a master control in the use of colour.
Javier Gómez, a visionary sculptor, able to achieve the difficult balance between an elegant simplicity, an intricate art-process, a thorough knowledge of glass and a colour explosion in these works of art.

Education & Teaching (Selected)

Javier Gómez was born in 1957 in Pedro Bernardo, Ávila, Spain. He is a self-taught artist who had his first contact with glass in his family’s industrial glass workshop in 1971, where he learned the techniques of industrial glass, the basis of his later artistic development. 
Javier Gómez and the City Hall of Alcorcón are founders of the MAVA - Alcorcón Art Museum of Glass in the greater area of Madrid, Spain. He is also lifetime artistic advisor of the museum.

Exhibitions (Selected)

2015-2016Retrospective Exhibition, Museu do Vidro, Marinha Grande, Portugal
2014Solo Exhibition, Etienne Gallery, Oisterwijk, The Netherlands
2013Solo Exhibition : Metamorfosis 1989-2010, Palacio de los Berdugo, Avila, Spain
2009Solo Exhibition, Seven Contemporary Art, Den Hague, The Netherlands
2006Solo Exhibition, CEART - Centro de Arte, Francisco Tomás y Valiente, Fuenlabrada, Spain
2005Solo Exhibition, Galerie Nadir, Annecy, France
2003Retrospective Exhibition, The Finnish Glass Museum, Riihimäki, Finland
2000Retrospective Exhibition, Alcorcón Art Museum of Glass (MAVA), Madrid, Spain.
1999Solo Exhibition, Wagga Wagga Regional Art Gallery, Australia


Collections (Selected)

Musée Atelier du Verre de Sars-Poteries, Sars-Poteries, France 
Glasmuseet Ebeltoft, Ebeltoft, Denmark 
Museum für Modernes Glass, Veste Coburg, Germany  
The Corning Museum of Glass, Corning, NY, USA 
Museo del Vidrio, Monterrey, Mexico 
Museu do Vidro, Marinha Grande, Portugal 
Glasmuseum Frauenau, Frauenau, Germany 
The Finnish Glass Museum, Riihimäki, Finland 
Tucson Museum of Art, Tucson, Arizona, USA 
Haggerty Museum of Art, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, USA 
Museum Jan van der Togt, Amstelveen, The Netherlands 
Glassmuseum Alter Hof Herding, Coesfeld Lette, Germany