Glass is so gloriously seductive that it’s easy to relegate it to the status of mere “crafts” medium—as ceramics and photography once were. In 1962, the Toledo Museum of Art hosted workshops by glassmaker Harvey Littleton and scientist Dominick Labino; their innovations in low-heat glass and portable kilns (respectively) made glass studio-friendly. Playing with Fire: Artists of the California Studio Glass Movement at the Oakland Museum is one of 120 shows assembled by the Art Alliance for Contemporary Glass to celebrate the medium’s golden anniversary; it includes works by Marvin Lipofsky and Robert Fritz, who established glass programs in the Bay Area; their students—Richard Marquis, Jay Musler, and Mary White; and art glass’s third generation, which, notes Julie Muñiz, Associate Curator of Design and Decorative Arts, adds contemporary conceptualism to the abstraction or semi-abstraction favored by the post-craft pioneers.
The medium’s versatility comes across vividly in the show’s twenty-works. Lipofsky’s organic deconstructions of the vessel form (Zwiesel Series, Summer Sun, and California Loop) prove that nature and culture commingled nicely long before the supposed competition became an academic buzzword. Fritz’s Vessel and Vase and John Lewis’s Copper Patina Bench are, similarly, cultural works that retain traditional functions. Glass artists explore art-for-art’s-sake expression (Latchezar Boyadjiev, Jaime Guerrero, Danny Perkins, Randy Strong); poetic metaphor (Mark Abildgaard, Kathleen Elliot, Bella Feldman, Taliaferro Jones, Michelle Knox, Susan Longini, William Morris, Jay Musler, Richard Marquis, Therman Statom, Cassandra Straubing, Pamina Traylor, Mary White); and political critique (Clifford Rainey’s Erechtheum, a faux-museological installation featuring Coke bottles instead of Greek maidens; and Oben Abright’s Projections in Tun Yee, the glass portrait bust of a Burmese soldier, flickering with video images of political repression).
Playing with Fire: Artists of the California Glass Movement runs through March 24; Oakland Museum of California, 1000 Oak St., Oakland; (510) 318-8400; museumca.org. —DeWitt Cheng in East Bay Monthly.
Repost with permission from DeWitt Cheng.
12.16.2012
Today's Downtown Gallery: A guide to Public Art in San Francisco
The San Francisco Planning Department oversees an art fund dedicated to the acquisition of public art for the City of San Francisco. Attached is a copy of the San Francisco Planning Department's guide to public art in downtown San Francisco, Today's Downtown Gallery.
Featured artists include: Bruce Beasley, Bella Feldman, Kent Roberts, Lee Lawrie, Thomas Marsh and Qiliu Pan, Mark Lere, Archie Held, George Rickey, Richard Deacon, Richard Deutsch, Gordon Huether, Joel Shapiro, Albert Paley, Anish Kapoor, Robert Hudson, Teresita Fernandez, Mildred Howard, Dorothy Lenehan, Daniel Winterich, Stephen de Staebler, Gwynn Murill, Pol Bury, Joan Brown, Larry Bell, Charles Arnoldi, Topher Delaney, Johanna Poethig, Paul D. Gibson, Ed Carpenter, Ball-Nogues Studio, Joe Goode, Ugo Rondinone, Jonathan Borofsky, John Luebtow, Pepo Pichler, Manuel Neri, Elyn Zimmerman, Bill Barrett, Arman, Dmitri Hadzi, Fritz Koenig, Paul Kos, Roger Berry, Curtis Hollenback and Topher Delaney.
11.21.2012
10.26.2012
Playing with Fire: Artists of the California Studio Glass Movement at the Oakland Museum
Playing with Fire: Artists of the California Studio Glass Movement
October 26, 2012–March 24, 2013
OMCA
is one of more than 120 museums nationwide to mark the 50th anniversary
of the studio art-glass movement in the United States. Featuring 32
works on view representing 22 artists in the Gallery of California Art,
the exhibition Playing with Fire: Artists of the California Studio Glass Movement
celebrates California's involvement in, and impact on, this movement
that was brought to the Golden State by Marvin Lipofsky, who started the
glass programs at California College of Arts and Crafts and UC
Berkeley, and by Robert Fritz, who established the program at San Jose
State University. Showcasing pioneer California glass artists, such as
Richard Marquis, Jay Musler, Randy Strong, and Mary White, alongside the
next generation of California glass artists including Oben Abright and
Jaime Guerrero, the exhibition reinforces the Bay Area's prominence as a
hotbed for the studio art-glass movement.
Docent Tours
Docent-led tours of Playing with Fire: Artists of the California Studio Glass Movement are offered every Sunday at 1 pm, through the end of the exhibition. Meet in front of the special exhibition in the back of the Gallery of California Art.
Made possible in part by generous support of the Oakland Museum Women’s Board, OMCA Art Guild, Art Alliance for Contemporary Glass, and Glass Alliance of Northern California.
Docent Tours
Docent-led tours of Playing with Fire: Artists of the California Studio Glass Movement are offered every Sunday at 1 pm, through the end of the exhibition. Meet in front of the special exhibition in the back of the Gallery of California Art.
Made possible in part by generous support of the Oakland Museum Women’s Board, OMCA Art Guild, Art Alliance for Contemporary Glass, and Glass Alliance of Northern California.
Sponsored by
The Oakland Museum of California, together with over 120 museums across the United States, celebrates the 50th anniversary of the American Studio Glass Movement with an exhibition of contemporary and studio glass by California artists.
Featured artists include Robert Fritz and Marvin Lipofsky, founders of glass studio programs at San Jose State University, California College of the Arts, and University of California (Berkeley). Contemporary glass on view includes work by Oben Abright, Latchezar Boyadjev, Kathleen Elliot, Bella Feldman, Jaime Guerrero, Taliaferro Jones, Michelle Knox, Susan Longini, William Morris, Jay Musler, Danny Perkins, Clifford Rainey, Cassandra Straubing, and Pamina Traylor, among others.
An exhibition catalog is available here and through the Oakland Museum of California. The exhibition was made possible in part by the Art Alliance for Contemporary Glass, the Glass Alliance of Northern California, and sponsored by the San Francisco Chronicle.
Playing with Fire: Artists of the California Studio Glass Movement
October 26, 2012–March 24, 2013
OMCA
is one of more than 120 museums nationwide to mark the 50th anniversary
of the studio art-glass movement in the United States. Featuring 32
works on view representing 22 artists in the Gallery of California Art,
the exhibition Playing with Fire: Artists of the California Studio Glass Movement
celebrates California's involvement in, and impact on, this movement
that was brought to the Golden State by Marvin Lipofsky, who started the
glass programs at California College of Arts and Crafts and UC
Berkeley, and by Robert Fritz, who established the program at San Jose
State University. Showcasing pioneer California glass artists, such as
Richard Marquis, Jay Musler, Randy Strong, and Mary White, alongside the
next generation of California glass artists including Oben Abright and
Jaime Guerrero, the exhibition reinforces the Bay Area's prominence as a
hotbed for the studio art-glass movement.
Docent Tours
Docent-led tours of Playing with Fire: Artists of the California Studio Glass Movement are offered every Sunday at 1 pm, through the end of the exhibition. Meet in front of the special exhibition in the back of the Gallery of California Art.
Made possible in part by generous support of the Oakland Museum Women’s Board, OMCA Art Guild, Art Alliance for Contemporary Glass, and Glass Alliance of Northern California.
Docent Tours
Docent-led tours of Playing with Fire: Artists of the California Studio Glass Movement are offered every Sunday at 1 pm, through the end of the exhibition. Meet in front of the special exhibition in the back of the Gallery of California Art.
Made possible in part by generous support of the Oakland Museum Women’s Board, OMCA Art Guild, Art Alliance for Contemporary Glass, and Glass Alliance of Northern California.
Sponsored by
Playing with Fire: Artists of the California Studio Glass Movement
October 26, 2012–March 24, 2013
OMCA
is one of more than 120 museums nationwide to mark the 50th anniversary
of the studio art-glass movement in the United States. Featuring 32
works on view representing 22 artists in the Gallery of California Art,
the exhibition Playing with Fire: Artists of the California Studio Glass Movement
celebrates California's involvement in, and impact on, this movement
that was brought to the Golden State by Marvin Lipofsky, who started the
glass programs at California College of Arts and Crafts and UC
Berkeley, and by Robert Fritz, who established the program at San Jose
State University. Showcasing pioneer California glass artists, such as
Richard Marquis, Jay Musler, Randy Strong, and Mary White, alongside the
next generation of California glass artists including Oben Abright and
Jaime Guerrero, the exhibition reinforces the Bay Area's prominence as a
hotbed for the studio art-glass movement.
Docent Tours
Docent-led tours of Playing with Fire: Artists of the California Studio Glass Movement are offered every Sunday at 1 pm, through the end of the exhibition. Meet in front of the special exhibition in the back of the Gallery of California Art.
Made possible in part by generous support of the Oakland Museum Women’s Board, OMCA Art Guild, Art Alliance for Contemporary Glass, and Glass Alliance of Northern California.
Docent Tours
Docent-led tours of Playing with Fire: Artists of the California Studio Glass Movement are offered every Sunday at 1 pm, through the end of the exhibition. Meet in front of the special exhibition in the back of the Gallery of California Art.
Made possible in part by generous support of the Oakland Museum Women’s Board, OMCA Art Guild, Art Alliance for Contemporary Glass, and Glass Alliance of Northern California.
Sponsored by
OMCA is
one of more than 120 museums nationwide to mark the 50th anniversary of
the studio art-glass movement in the United States. Featuring 32 works
on view representing 22 artists in the Gallery of California Art, the
exhibition Playing with Fire: Artists of the California Studio Glass Movement
celebrates California's involvement in, and impact on, this movement
that was brought to the Golden State by Marvin Lipofsky, who started the
glass programs at California College of Arts and Crafts and UC
Berkeley, and by Robert Fritz, who established the program at San Jose
State University. Showcasing pioneer California glass artists, such as
Richard Marquis, Jay Musler, Randy Strong, and Mary White, alongside the
next generation of California glass artists including Oben Abright and
Jaime Guerrero, the exhibition reinforces the Bay Area's prominence as a
hotbed for the studio art-glass movement. - See more at:
http://museumca.org/exhibit/playing-fire-artists-california-studio-glass-movement#sthash.BPyRuleg.dpuf
10.23.2012
Today: Susan Longini at the Oakland Museum of California
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| Caithness Neighbors. 2011. Kilncast pâte de verre, metal frame, 35 x 41 x 1.5 in. Collection of the artist. Photo credit: Keay Edwards |
Susan J. Longini initiated and becamed head of the glass program at Ohlone College in Fremont, California from 1987 to 2003, and served on the City of Fremont’s Art Review Board from 2000 to 2010.
From 2002 to 2004, Longini was Executive Director of the Bay Area Glass Institute, San Jose, California. She is currently president of the Glass Alliance of Northern California. Since 2000, Longini’s concentration is focused on pâte de verre and large scale installations in glass. Her work is represented in galleries in the United States and in collections around the world. —Susan Longini
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