About the Artist

What is ancient is made new again through the contemporary designs of Jeri Goodman GlassArt.  Jeri's designs are created exclusively using an ancient technique known as kiln-formed glassworking. 

Beauty and sensuality, qualities whose relevance has risen in the Art world over the last two decades, have always been among the attributes of Jeri's designs.   The inspiration for her work comes from many sources.  It might be the chance mixing of the colors of flowers in a garden, the design in an old piece of tapestry, or the skyline of a city at sunset.  She takes these accumulated images and colors back to her studio and endeavors to express them in her own contemporary style of glass.

Most recently, Jeri has added jewelry to her portfolio of contemporary glass.  She was inspired to incorporate  cold-working and polishing techniques into her work in the summer of 2005, after studying with Frantisek Janak of the Czech Republic.  The clean geometric lines of cut and polished glass, combined with the wide array of colors available by using dichroics, have also led her to add PMC Silver settings to her jewelry.  Using her previous skills as a ceramic artist, she fashions PMC clay into complementary mountings that become pure silver metal when fired.

Jeri is a San Francisco Bay-Area artist who has worked in both glass and ceramic media since 1986.  She is largely a self-taught glass artist having pursued a college major in Art, with emphasis on ceramics.  She is an exhibiting member of the Association of Clay & Glass Artists of California and of the American Craft Council.  

More of Jeri's work can be seen in the following books:

Her work can be found in both private and corporate collections.

Jeri does several retail shows a year in the San Francisco Bay area.  A show schedule can be found here.  Please come by and say hello !!