Josiah McElheny

[3] After graduating, he was an apprentice to master glassblowers Jan-Erik Ritzman, Sven-Ake Caarlson and Lino Tagliapietra.

[citation needed] He has used the infinity mirror visual effect in his explorations of apparently infinite space.

[10] One of the artist's ongoing projects is "An End to Modernity" (2005), commissioned by the Wexner Center for the Arts at Ohio State University.

[11] "The End of the Dark Ages," again inspired by the Metropolitan Opera House chandeliers and informed by logarithmic equations devised by the cosmologist David H. Weinberg[12] was shown in New York City in 2008.

Later that year, the series culminated in a massive installation titled "Island Universe" at White Cube in London[13] and in Madrid.