Benton Jones has committed himself to relentless sculptural experimentation and strives to impart layered meaning into each object he creates. Often combining materials with contrasting properties, like molten glass and non-ferrous metals, Jones captures liquid sculpture in mid-motion.
The search for commonality within disparity, both in subject matter and media choice, is a recurring theme in Jones’ work. He has transformed century old Sandwich Glass remnants into contemporary drop-ring vessels, made a series of work entitled Oceanic Experience from the glass walls of the old Provincetown Aquarium, and, in a collection of ice-like glass sculpture entitled Melting Hemispheres, Jones reshaped glass flotation spheres previously in use by the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution for climate change research, in an effort to draw attention to the issue.
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Interview with NECN about the use of reclaimed glass flotation spheres to make sculpture.Casting bronze at my foundry. Sculpture exhibition in 2013 at the Cape Cod Museum of Art.Multimedia sculpture installation.Sculpture commission for office rooftop in Hyannis, MAPrivate commission incorporating Bronze, Onyx and Glass.Sculpture installation at the Barnstable, MA airportMultimedia sculpture of glass, bronze and stone for private collection.Benton Jones with his sculptural fountain.
