About Sarinda Jones 
Sarinda Jones currently lives in Salt Lake City, Utah. Sarinda’s minimalist approach gives her kilnformed work a contemporary feel and illuminates the simple beauty of glass. Her work is collected nationally and frequently commissioned.
Sarinda studied art history, photography, ceramics and fine art.
Sarinda’s 2003 Pilchuck admission was based on a juried selection of student artwork. She studied with Mary White; San Jose University, San Jose, CA, Susan Balshor; Pratt Fine Art Center, Seattle WA and
Christy Corbett, Bullseye Glass Company, Portland, OR. ; Emphasis in kilnformed and casting techniques. Giles Bettison, Lino Tagliapietra influence her work.
Sarinda is an active member of the Glass Art Guild of Utah and in 2006 was nominated Chair of Public Relations Committee. Sarinda was awarded 2004 “Best of Show” at Patrick Moore Gallery and was an invited artist to the 2006 Utah Arts Festival. She is also a member of the Glass Art Society (GAS), an international organization whose purpose is to encourage excellence, to advance education, and to support the worldwide community of artists who work with glass. In 2008 organized and taught a teen apprenticeship program in kilnformed glass with Bad Dog Rediscovers America, a children’s art institute in Salt Lake City.
In her own words
"I create sculpture for corporate, hospitality, and academic facilities, as well as private and gallery installations. The scale ranges from small tabletop works to pieces over five feet high using steel, aluminum, and glass to create a contemporary feel that illuminates the simple beauty of glass.
I enjoy collaborating with architects, designers, and art consultants. My motivation is to capture that moment when time stands still, condensing the elements of my work to their essence—to a sense of space that has a concentration of spirit, character, and physical presence. Each piece is designed with meticulous care and thought. While the placement of color and individual elements may appear random, there is a formula involved. For more information, please contact me at 801.835.8611.
Etsy-find: Sarinda Jones’s stand-out sculptures
Even within the “Art” category, serious work in glass is hard to come by when browsing the mecca for all-things-handmade that is Etsy.com. Yet, hidden among the pages of small-scale glass objects that often have their decoration painted-on is the occasional piece that announces itself as serious, ambitious, and far more carefully made. The bracing contrast between the majority of work in glass on Etsy and the organic forms of sculptor Sarinda Jones, for example, makes the discovery that much more serendipitous. Although the decades-old art-versus-craft debate has been, and continues to be, a significant and shaping aspect for many artists working in the material, the work of Jones deftly makes the leap over that often-swampy terrain in its confident display of elegance and aplomb.
Currently based in Salt Lake City and committed to what her seller profile labels a minimalist aesthetic, Jones’s sculptures are actually more reminiscent of post-minimalist work, specifically process art, with their adjoining, asymmetrical ribs of textured, fused, and slumped glass. There’s an abject quality to her “Transpire” series, made up of drooping, plank-like forms supported by oxidized steel stands as though they are bodies starting to sag under their own weight. Available in clear or carnelian or “muted” colored glass for $600 each, these bowed forms, with their amorphous edges, soften the hard clarity of the individual layers, resulting in objects that both lure and repel the viewer with their surfaces. That these objects can be purchased alongside kitschy painted-glass sun-catchers is a testament to the democratizing effect of our digital age—and why a sharp eye for quality is all the more important.
—Analisa Coats Bacall /Glass Quarterly
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Where to Find Sarinda's Work
Q Street Gallery
Terzian Galleries
Alpine Art
The Artful Home
Utah Museum of Fine Art
Evergreen Gallery
Downtown Alliance Farmers’ Market
Utah Arts Festival
EarthGoods General Store
Positively 4th Street Music
Palm Springs Museum of Fine Art
Cobalt Gallery
Urban Blossom
Grand Galleries
Past Exhibitions
American Craft Council
Finch Lane Art Barn
Salt Lake Arts Council
Utah Arts Council
Utah Arts Festival
Park City Kimball Arts Festival
Kayenta Arts Festival
Utah Museum of Fine Art
Rose Wagner Art Center
Art Access II
Face of Utah Sculpture
Evergreen Gallery
Patrick Moore Gallery
The Unknown Gallery
Red Butte Gardens
The Green Ant
Awards
Honorable mention for overall show
3rd Annual Glass at the Garden
November 2005
Red Butte Gardens, salt Lake City, Utah
Best of show
2nd Annual Gathering of Glass
June 2005
Patrick Moore Gallery, Salt Lake City, Utah
Invited Artist
Utah Arts Festival
June 2006
Juried participant
Salt Lake City Downtown Alliance’s Farmers Market
2005, 2006 and 2007
Community involvement
Glass Art Guild of Utah
Member Standing Chair of Public Relations, 2006
Glass Art Society
Member
Bad Dog Rediscovers America
Organizer, Teen Glass Apprenticeship Program
Public Art Commissions
Commission to produce glass art for Utah Transit Authority TRAX (light rail) station, titled The Faces of Our Neighborhood, in SLC, UT, in 2005. Sarinda contributed work on kiln-formed glass that was inlaid into benches at the new station located at 900 South 200 West. |
