Javier Gomez

(b. 1957) Spain
As an apprentice with the local window company, Javier learnt the art of working with panes of glass as a teenager. He went on to apply these techniques to sculpture, creating decorative pieces using laminating, cutting and sandblasting to obtain intricate, delicate three-dimensional forms in a variety of colour.

Recent solo exhibitions
1999 Galeria de arte Valenzuela, Granada, Spain
Wagga Wagga Regional Art Gallery, Australia
2003 Retrospective, MAVA, Madrid, Spain
Galeria Quorum, Madrid, Spain

Public collections
— Glass Museum, Sars Poteries, France
— Glass Museum of Liege, Belgium
— Glass Museum, Boca Raton, Florida, USA
— Glass Museum, Ebeltoft, Denmark
— Kestner Museum, Hanover, Germany
— Museum fur Kinst und Gewerbe, Hamburg, Germany
— Museum fur Modernes Glass, West Coburg, Germany
— Corning Museum, Corning, NY, USA
— Museo del Vidrio, Monterrey, Mexico
— University of Michigan, California, USA
— Meseu do Vidro, Marinha Grande, Portugal
— Glasmuseum, Frauenau, Germany
— Numerous museums in Spain