About

Benton Jones has committed himself to relentless sculptural experimentation and strives to impart layered meaning into each object he creates. Often combining materials with contrasting properties, like molten glass and non-ferrous metals, Jones captures liquid sculpture in mid-motion by precisely choreographed cooling in his kilns.

The search for commonality within disparity, both in subject matter and media choice, is a recurring theme in Jones’ work. He has transformed century old Sandwich Glass remnants into contemporary drop-ring vessels, made a series of work entitled Oceanic Experience from the glass walls of the old Provincetown Aquarium, and, in a collection of ice-like glass sculpture entitled Melting Hemispheres, Jones captured the attention of the New England Cable Network, when he reshaped glass flotation spheres previously in use by the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution for climate change research, in an effort to draw attention to the issue.

Areas of Expertise

Glass Sculpture, Metal Sculpture, Difficult Commissions, Instruction

Professional Affiliations

NC State University
Prague Institute
Carnegie Mellon University
Ecoles Des Beaux-Arts
The Johnson Atelier Institute of Sculpture
Cape Cod Museum of Art
Cotuit Center for the Arts
Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution
Corning Museum of Glass
Cortile Gallery
L'Attitude Gallery
Studio on Slough Rd
WarmGlass.com
International Guild of Glass Artists
Sandwich Glass Museum
Cape Arts Review Magazine
Cape Cod Chamber of Commerce