jeremy lampe

Bio

Jeremy Lampe is currently the glass professor at Southern Illinois University at Edwardsville and instructor/hotshop manager at Third Degree Glass Factory. He also teaches ceramics, sculpture and 3d design at St.Louis Community College. Lampe received his MFA from Illinois State University in 2018 and his BFA from Southern Illinois University at Edwardsville in 2005. After receiving his BFA he taught ceramics at St.Louis Community College Wildwood and worked as the Educational Assistant in ceramics at STLCC Meramec as well as the Graduate Assistant at Centre College in Danville, KY. His exhibitions include Heartland 4, SOFA Chicago, the Smithsonian Craft Show, Washington Craft Show, Philadelphia Museum Show, Transformations 6:Contemporary Works in Glass at the Society for Contemporary Craft in Pittsburgh, and NEXT in Glass at the St.Louis G.A.S. conference. He has worked as a studio assistant for glass artists John Miller, Stephan Powell and Tony Cray.

Lampe’s work is dynamic and animated capturing the process of their making, while manipulating the materials in a way that shows its plasticity and fluidity.

artist Statement

Jeremy Lampe’s blown glass and ceramic sculptures are inspired by industrial cast offs and tools. Breaking down dichotomies between industry and nature, glass and clay, rubber and metal, what is genuine and what is imitation, he brings different mediums together in the examination of their individual fluid natures.

This work is an exploration of different forms, techniques, and materials: this investigation is an attempt to find which media responds to the artist’s designs and ideas most clearly and becomes the best exploitation of his concepts and formal issues. Jampe’s goal is to dissect each of the materials and manipulate them in a way that reveals the process of their making, as well as their plasticity and fluidity; he wants it to be evident that at one time these forms were soft and malleable before the process rendered them hard and vitreous.

While the finished pieces reference mechanical architecture, they have been transformed through the process. As the work progresses, mechanized apparatus morph into anatomical limbs and rusty remnants of an industrial era mutate into biological configurations. Dynamic, animated pieces represent the course of adaptations taken, while retaining ownership of their industrial roots.