Josepha Gash-Muche

Biography

Josepha Gasch-Muche has gone on to acquire many awards, honors and grants in relation to her use of Glass as her primary medium. Born in 1944 Saarland, Germany. The area known for its densely wooded forests and beautiful rolling hills has over the last 200 years changed its nationality eight times and the French influence is highly evident. From Josepha's early years of experimenting with several different materials and there limitations and the limits they impose on her as an artist, she has concentrated on Glass sculpture as her primary focus since 1998.

By Glass choosing her it has opened up the possibility of "painting" with light. Working with Glass from a factory located in a former Eastern Block section of Germany Josepha orchestras her thin material in a harmonious journey to reflect and scatter light, thus bringing it to life.

Even though Josepha and her husband have planned, but not yet to visit America she continues to find a wider public with shows in London and exhibits in Berlin, Paris and Amsterdam. Due to her ongoing success in Glass she has won the (2006) Coburger Glass Prize and was a finalist in the Bombay Sapphire Prize.

Perhaps only for a moment, with the slightest shift in the viewer's position, her objects seem to glow from the inside or open into deep dark spaces of prismatic color.