UrbanGlass in New York has selected my work to be part
of their final exhibition before renovation "Transitions".
The arts organization has described the exhibition as representative
of a pivotal moment in its institutional history and highlights experimental,
innovative works in glass. The exhibition was juried by Jennifer Scanlan,
associate curator, Museum of Arts & Design; Courtney J. Wendroff,
visual arts director, Brooklyn Arts Council; Dave Altman, co-chair,
Urbanites; and Alan Iwamura, visual artist.
TRANSITIONS: Artists of UrbanGlass
September 16, 2010 - December 22, 2010
Opening Reception: Wednesday, September 15, 2010
647 Fulton St, Brooklyn, NY 11217
San Francisco's Micaela Gallery features my work in an
exhibition of sculptural glass art titled COLD + HOT 2010.
Micaela Gallery showcases fine art and sculpture, and was one of the
best of the US galleries featured at Art Basel, Switzerland. The title
Cold + Hot references the processes used by glass artists to form the
medium.
Micaela Gallery
49 Geary Street, No. 234
San Francisco, CA 94108
www.micaela.com
July 1 – August 28, 2010
California's Bay Area Glass Institute (BAGI) awarded me
as the winner of the 2010 Saxe Fellowship Award honoring outstanding
technical ability and achievement in glass.
Since 1979, the Corning Museum of Glass has published
its annual New Glass Review, which documents new work in glass art,
architecture, craft, and design. This year an international jury selected
artwork submitted from 888 artists from over 43 countries - making a
total of over 2,500 submissions for consideration. For the second year
in a row, my artwork was selected for inclusion in the publication,
New Glass Review 31, due out in May 2010.
Boston’s Fuller Craft Museum will feature a solo
exhibition of my work in 2011. Scheduled to start in August and run
through November, the show will be mounted in the Tarlow Gallery.
Fuller Craft Museum
465 Oak Street
Brockton, MA 02301
www.fullercraft.org
The Florida Art Glass Alliance awarded me the ‘Outstanding
Emerging Artist Award’ 2008-2009. This organization’s mission
is to further the development and appreciation of art made from glass.
The Alliance informs collectors, critics and curators by encouraging
and supporting museum exhibitions, university glass departments and
specialized teaching programs, regional collector groups, visits to
private collections, and public seminars.
The DC Commission on the Arts has notified me that I am
to receive a 2009 Artist Fellowship, awarded to individual artists who
make significant contributions to the arts and who promote the arts
in the District of Columbia through artistic excellence. The Fellowship
is funded in part by the DC Commission on the Arts & Humanities,
an agency supported in part by the National Endowment for the Arts.
My glass and steel sculpture for the Hotel Palomar received
"Best Artwork Award 2007" from Boutique Design Magazine, nd
in January, the national newspaper The
Onion singled out that sculpture as one of the reasons that Washington,
DC is becoming a cool arts center. The Washington Glass Studio was also
featured in the article on public artworks.
A documentary film on my work and technique was created
by the Verizon FiOs creative film production team.
View online www.youtube.com/watch?v=qBTNm5jF3LE
The DC Commission on the Arts & Humanities recently
acquired one of my castings for permanent exhibit in The John A. Wilson
Building City Hall Art Collection. The new and much heralded collection
is open to the public.
City Hall Art Collection
John A. Wilson Building
1350 Pennsylvania Ave, NW
Washington, DC
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_A._Wilson_Building
Recently I was included recently included in a new book,
50 Distinguished Contemporary Artists in Glass, edited by Lisa Hoftijzer
(ISBN 0947798609 IL Publishers Ltd, London).
Distinguished appraisers in glass chose 50 artists who, in their opinion,
represented "the best work of their generation".