Joshua Dopp has been working with glass for almost 20 years primarily blowing and casting. He took his first class in 1988 at Santa Barbara City College. In 1993 he earned his BA degree in Art History from the University of California at Santa Barbara. After taking 6 years off to work for various glass artists, museums and galleries, he returned in 1998 as a graduate student in the MFA program of Sculpture/Glass at the University of Illinois. In 2002 he became a fellow at the Contemporary Glass Center of America. He has lived in phoenix since 2004.

Joshua's new glasswork is perfectionist in nature, but its appearance is intended to calm and arrest the viewers from their day-to-day activities. With his new forms he has labored over the glass carving, grinding and polishing the material in a manner that some would call excessive. However, the act allows him time for condensed concentration, much like meditation. Each piece holds many hours of energy and intention. The resulting depth of beauty is an effect of deliberate considerations that emphasize tension: tension between light and dark, smooth and sharp, open and closed, heavy and light. These are complex, yet simple abstract pieces which images can never do true justice.