Jonny Campolo (b. 1987, NH) lives and works in New York. Recent performances include “Stop Club 57,” Museum of Modern Art, New York; “The Summit,” Guild Hall, East Hampton, NY; and “Send In The Clowns,” Freddy, Harris, NY. He has participated in exhibitions in New York, Los Angeles and Detroit, most recently with Halsey McKay, East Hampton, NY; Marvin Gardens, Queens, NY; Jeffs, Detroit, MI; Safe Gallery, East Hampton, NY and at NADA House on Governor’s Island, New York. His work is held in private and public collections including the Corning Museum of Glass, NY; the New York Public Library; Yale University Robert B. Haas Family Arts Library, CT; Los Angeles Contemporary Archive; and Artforum International, NY.

Is glass a liquid or a solid? It’s a real question a lot of people ask, and the evidence is at first enticing. The glass of centuries old cathedrals is thicker on its lower edge, suggesting a slow drooping over the years since its construction. This has been used to argue that glass is in fact the most viscous liquid known to man.

I can’t think of a slipperier thing to do with this potential information than to claim that glass (now defined as a liquid) qualifies as paint, and that what you see here are paintings. I hate that I even thought of it, and well I’m at it, what the hell was my friend talking about when he said his sculptures were drawings?

Jonny would NEVER make this case. He would never bring his artwork to the altar of painting. Probably because he’s a musician, a good one, and why would a skilled pianist ever go knocking on that door.

Fortunately glass is not a liquid.

— Jeffrey Tranchell