Phone: 612-964-6081
Website: www.jageigerstudio.com

Address:
1647 Beech Street

Born and mostly raised in Wisconsin, Josephine now lives and works in Saint Paul, Minnesota, with a pond full of [sometimes frozen] goldfish and a dog watching over the studio as the cat plays with her tail.

Trained as an architect, Josephine A. Geiger’s glass art is inspired by hidden depths in the landscape. These scenes are distilled into a bold palette of rectangles and squares of colored light as she translates a photo or sketch with an Impressionistic eye, capturing the essence of the subject. Josephine’s process is organically linear, adding, shifting, flipping, or removing glass elements until the visual puzzle is finally solved — often in surprising ways.

More subtle architectural effects emerge within the design of kiln-worked elements and copper lacing through the panels. Josephine cuts, folds, bends, and twists the copper fabric, as she weaves it in and out of openings cut into the glass panel. Deceptively simple spaces, precisely structured in the panel for strength and composition, flirt with the solidity and transparency of the leaded glass.

In addition to a steady stream of private commissions (even a chicken coop), Josephine's artwork is represented in various installations and public collections including a handful of churches and a courthouse in Middleton, WI. Josephine also recently created and installed an original skylight on the Frank Lloyd Wright Lovness Estate in Minnesota. Her distinctive style has earned multiple awards and has been featured in both regional and national print publications, as well as TV episodes on TPT’s MN Original and INSP’s Handcrafted America.

EXPERTISE

New work, custom design, stained glass (leaded), small scale mosaics, autonomous artwork panels, multi-media artwork (glass, fused, steel, copper), fused glass, full service studio from design through fabrication and installation.

REGIONS SERVED

Primarily working in Minnesota and western Wisconsin, and the upper Midwest, but I have shipped custom commission work all over the US, from Portland, OR to New York, NY, and even to New Zealand.

“Sister Moon and the stars, In the heavens you have made them bright, precious and fair.”

Installation inspired by the rising sun as well as honoring the memory and life of our parents and loved ones. Where Eagles Fly is a metaphor for soaring above the trees in joy, freed from earthly constraints.

The symbolism in the panels is subtle with the Trinity represented by the trees...
The imagery of bevels represents the Portland skyline and reflects in the river, while small fused pieces with copper birds (transom) and fish (reflections in the water) are integrated in the composition.
Custom metal stops hold the panels (63x20” and 17x20”) hold the panels in place, while more than 150 linear feet of hidden reinforcement kept this panel intact while being shipped across the country.
Art to commemorate the donors that contributed to the fundraising campaign to replace the roof , restore the organ, and repair the restrooms.

The 6 panels use a photo fusing transfer process to fuse the names and images to the glass. The names create a linear outline that loosely follows the contours of the city skyline. The city is populated with hundreds of historical and current photos of the city, congregation and church. Together they illustrate both the context of the logo and foundation of the church to be “In the city for Good.”

The design is also meant to be fluid. The 6 panels...