Gene Koss Professor Tulane University Newcomb Art Department

Gene Koss

Professor Emeritus, Glass
gkoss@tulane.edu
504-442-0886

Education

MFA, Tyler School of Art at Temple University

Biography

After obtaining his Master of Fine Arts degree at Tyler School of Art at Temple University, Gene Koss started the Tulane University glass program and brought the movement of glass art to New Orleans. He uses steel and glass to create monumental works. Working with serial cast glass parts to enlarge scale and combining these elements with iron and neon, he has raised glass sculpture to the realm of public art. Koss’s work has had a profound impact on American artists working in both steel and glass media.

Koss is the recipient of numerous awards including the National Endowment for the Arts; the New Orleans Community Arts Award; and Pace-Willson Art Foundation grants. His work is included in numerous private collections and has been displayed in museums and galleries throughout the United States and abroad, including the International Biennale for Contemporary Art in Florence, Italy, and has been featured in International Glass Art, Contemporary Glass-Color, Light & Form and Glass Art from Urban Glass publications. Koss is represented by Arthur Roger Gallery in New Orleans, LA.

In 2019 Gene Koss Sculpture was published by Arnoldsche Art Publishers, Stuttgart, Germany, and released internationally. The monograph features Koss' most important artistic achievements created during his 45-year career, and, through insightful essays by well recognized critics and curators, places his sculptures in historic perspective.

 

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Gene Koss Glass and Steel sculpture installation at Arthur Roger Gallery

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Gene Koss glass and steel sculpture Arthur Roger Gallery

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Courses

  • Foundation of Art: Glass
  • Intermediate Glass
  • Special Advanced Glass
  • Graduate Glass