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ARTISTS FEATURED IN THE COLLECTION
Paul Balmer | Carrie Battista | Rick Beck | Louisiana Bendolph | Ernesto Berra | Sonja Blomdahl | Willard Bond | Chris Burkholder | Jaq Chartier | Dale Chihuly | Christopher Clamp | Carol Cook | Joe Cook | Kathleen Norris Cook | Robert Cottingham | Arless Day | Nadège Desgenétez | Benjamin Edols and Kathy Elliott | Stephen Gleasner | Kirk Goetchius | Gwendolyn Graine | Nancy Hammond | Mila Holy | David Huchthausen | Dick Huss | Sidney R. Hutter | Toshio Iezumi | Robert Irwin | Herb Jackson | Earl James | Paul Jenkins | Clay Johanson | Wolf Kahn | Lee (Johanson) Kennedy | Harri Koskinen | Mayme Kratz | Jon Kuhn | Jeremy Lepisto | Harvey K. Littleton | John Littleton and Kate Vogel | Sue Lynch | Dona McNeill | Thomas McNickle | Tobias Møhl | Mark Monson | Benjamin Moore | Mark Morris | Mel Munsen | Don Nice | David Nichols | Ben Owen III | Tom Pfannerstill | Bob Rankin | Colin Reid | Kit Reuther | Martin Rosol | Tommie Rush | Marion Sak | Nick Sapone | Thomas Sayre | SD Studios | Josh Simpson | Preston Singletary | Jarvis Snow | Beau Stahl | Richard Stenhouse | Ken Swanson | Lino Tagliapietra | Tarby Tarver | Ikuzi Teraki | Freeman Thomas | Æsa Björk Thorsteinsdóttir | Michael Trimpol | Delos Van Earl | Natalie Warrens | Steven Weinberg | Bruce M. Williamson | Kesler Woodward | Shinji Yonehara | Toots Zynsky

RECENT UPDATES
1 January 2008: I apologize for the lack of recent updates... I have several new works which I am getting ready to photograph and create web pages for soon. Please bear with me as I try to get the site caught up!

22 May 2006: Added page for Delos Van Earl (Fog Bank Diptych).
22 August 2005: Added pages for David Huchthausen (Polar Sequence DRH97PS) and Kit Reuther (Fishbowl).
5 August 2005: Added page for Ernesto Berra (Muro Azul / Rosa Rojo).
5 June 2005: Added page for Mayme Kratz (Notes On Truth #5).
5 May 2005: Added page for Josh Simpson (AP 95.05).
22 March 2005: Added page for Bob Rankin (Venetian Marsh).

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THE ARTISTS

Paul Balmer

From the
Jerald Melberg Gallery web site:
Although currently living in America, Paul Balmer's love of painting and travel has taken him all over the world. During painting trips to England, France and Italy, what started as a journey into traditional landscape and cityscape painting gave way to works from the artist's imagination. Balmer pushed the boundaries of his paintings. Composition, scale, light and shadow changed; cathedrals became monumental. Many of the icons of European cities can be identified in his work. Statues from the Piazza Della Signoria are juxtaposed in front of Le Petit Palais, or sculptures from New York's Grand Central Station adorn the Musée d'Orsay. The viewer is invited to explore mythology and philosophy against a backdrop of classical architecture.

Born in 1964 in South Africa, Paul Balmer graduated from Meadowbank College in Sydney. He has had over a dozen solo exhibitions in South Africa, Australia, England and the United States.

Paul has his own web site, which you can view by clicking here.

Works by Paul Balmer: Arch Study



Clay Johanson and Paul Balmer, Jerald Melberg Gallery, 12 January 2001

Carrie Battista

"My work is an interpretation of landscape as a line between the earth and atmosphere. The line references topography in its gesture, extracting all of the visual clues such as buildings, bridges and people. The orientation remains ambiguous to which end is up and to a specific location. Only the residual contour of the land remains, thus referencing the experience of exploration. It is open to interpretation and reflection on one's physical surroundings." —Carrie Battista

Works by Carrie Battista: Seascape/Landscape (2)

Rick Beck

Based in Spruce Pine, North Carolina, Rick Beck received his BA from Hastings College, Hastings, Nebraska, in 1982, and his MFA from Southern Illinois University, Carbondale, Illinois, in 1989. His works may be found in the collections of the Glasmuseum, Ebeltoft, Denmark; the Mint Museum and the Mint Museum of Craft + Design, Charlotte, North Carolina; and the Wustum Museum of Fine Art, Racine, Wisconsin.

Works by Rick Beck: Medium Casting

Louisiana Bendolph

Works by Louisiana Bendolph: May Day

Ernesto Berra

From the
Jerald Melberg Gallery web site:
Ernesto Berra continues to live in Cordoba, Argentina, the city in which he was born. Berra is a graduate of the University of Cordoba and has had over twenty-five solo exhibitions dating back to 1969.

The abstract urban landscapes of Ernesto Berra reflect the familiar old structures within his city that are crumbling with the advent of time. In addition to preserving a bit of the past, the artist sometimes gathers remnants of the decaying buildings to incorporate into his collage paintings, which also include acrylic, wood, fabric, wire and paper. This combining of these diverse elements with the artist's experiences gives power to the waste and deterioration of these elements within Berra's paintings.

Works by Ernesto Berra: Muro Azul / Rosa Rojo

Sonja Blomdahl

From the
William Traver Gallery web site:
Sonja Blomdahl's glass vessels combine fluid form with brilliant, pure color. Blomdahl's mastery of the complexity of color and light led one critic to call her a "colorist without peer". Her incalmo vessels with their bands of luminous color seem deceptively simple at first glance, but the richness and complexity of the pieces emerge gracefully and, depending on the light, powerfully. Blomdahl's work is about the relations of form, color, light, and scale. Her sensibility of form has developed to the point where her works appear classically perfect or even inevitable—which further enhances their subtlety and leads to their quality of quiet elation.
Sonja's works can be found in many collections, including the Corning Museum of Glass, Corning, New York; the Museum of Decorative Art, Praha, Czech Republic; the American Craft Museum, New York; and the Renwick Gallery of the Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC.

Sonja has her own web site, which you can view by clicking here.

Works by Sonja Blomdahl: B199 (Lapis/Clear/Turquoise), B100 (Creamy Red/Clear/Teal), B101 (Marmalade/Clear/Sky Blue), B102 (Sky Blue/Amber), B103 (White/Cobalt), B104 (White/Clear/Aquamarine)



Sonja Blomdahl and Clay Johanson, Sonja Blomdahl Studios, 8 August 2000

Willard Bond

Willard Bond was born in the Pacific Northwest and grew up on Lake Coeur d'Alene in northern Idaho. After working with the US Forest Service, Bond joined the US Navy. He acquired experience on battleships, cruisers, and destroyer escorts while serving in the South Pacific during World War II. After the war ended, Bond spent several years exploring a variety of artistic paths which led him from making ceramics in Soho to building Buckminster Fuller-inspired geodesic domes in the tropical rain forest.

In 1976, Bond returned to New York, where he began painting square-rigged ships. The acceptance of his marine paintings by the South Street Seaport Museum coincided with the Bicentennial and OP Sail. As he continued to explore sailing and the sea, Bond's inspiration moved from square-riggers to the contemporary racing scene with its spinnakers, bloopers, and grinders. The advent and design of today's sleek racing boats coupled with Bond's artistic interpretation have proven to be a perfect match. Bond was fortunate enough to become involved with the Freedom syndicate during the 1984 America's Cup series. Since then, he has continued to get onboad experience on world-class racing yachts.

Bond has studied at the Chicago Art Institute, the Art Student's League of New York, and is a graduate of Pratt Institute. He is a fellow member of the American Society of Marine Artists. Bond has been featured in Sea History, Nautical Quarterly, and The Yacht.

Works by Willard Bond: Rounding The Leeward Mark



Clay Johanson and Willard Bond, Annapolis Marine Art Gallery, 1 April 2000

Chris Burkholder

From the invitation to a show at the
Jerald Melberg Gallery:
Chris Burkholder was born in Ohio in 1952 and grew up in Houston, Texas. Self-taught as an artist, Burkholder attended Angelina College, setting up his own studio in 1972.

Known for his ethereal landscapes, Burkholder's style can be described as American Luminism. The delicate changes in colors, achieved by glazing many layers of acrylic, creates a hazy, dream-like effect. His landscapes are frequently not of a specific region, rather they are from a collection of memories.

Burkholder has been honored with over twenty-five museum and gallery exhibitions, including the Maryland Institute of Art and Masur Museum of Art. His works can be found in numerous private and public collections, including the US Department of State Art in Embassies Collection, Baylor College of Medicine, Bank of America, IBM, and Ernst & Young.

Works by Chris Burkholder: Coastal Study II


Clay Johanson and Chris Burkholder, Jerald Melberg Gallery, 19 November 1999

Jaq Chartier

From the
William Traver Gallery web site:
Keen observations of chance and a staunch belief in the language of painting empower the work of Jaq Chartier. By intimately exploring the act of painting, Chartier manifests a vocabulary of visual data that is intensely visceral, yet ambiguous, in its conceptual relationship with the viewer. Forms float on top of each other, creating actual dimension in the pictorial field which, in a transitory manner, appear as if they could float away to another visual space. Through specific experiments and tests of materials and processes, Chartier finds unpredictable happenings that lead her to question painting's relationship to science and meaning—questions that change how we view materials and how the movement of materials becomes evocative.
Jaq Chartier (pronounced "jack shar ti AY") was born in Albany, Georgia in 1961. She received her BFA from the University of Massachusetts in 1984, and her MFA from the University of Washington in 1994. She works from a studio in Seattle, Washington.

Jaq has her own web site, which you can view by clicking here.

Works by Jaq Chartier: Dye Sequence



Jaq Chartier and Clay Johanson, William Traver Gallery, 14 February 2002

Dale Chihuly

From the
Jerald Melberg Gallery web site:
Dale Chihuly was born in 1941 in Tacoma, Washington. He received a BA from the University of Washington in 1965, an MS from the University of Wisconsin in 1967, and an MFA from Rhode Island School of Design in 1968. Two Fulbright Fellowships allowed him to study the art of glassmaking in Venice. In a city known for its glasswork as well as its canals and stunning light, Chihuly learned the art of glassblowing and that of teamwork—a crucial and integral part of his production. In 1971, Chihuly co-founded the Pilchuck School, which has made the Northwest an epicenter of the glass world. His work has been shown in solo and group exhibitions throughout the world, and he is one of only three Americans to have had a solo exhibition at the Louvre.

Chihuly is known for pushing the glass envelope past all imaginable limits. He broke with the tradition of symmetrical glass by designing organic-looking vessels that resemble huge clamshells or flower petals. His work suggests movement, capturing the shape of the molten flow of the medium. Whether regarding his small-scale blown glass works, large sculpture or site-specific installations, Chihuly creates a sense of wonder and excitement that has captured the world's attention.

Click here to see Chihuly's web site, which contains many images of his work.

Works by Dale Chihuly: Cirrus White Basket Set with Lamp Black Lip Wrap, Raw Sienna Soft Cylinder with Orange Lip Wrap, Royal Blue and Red Basket Set with Black Lip Wraps



Dale Chihuly and Clay Johanson, Jerald Melberg Gallery, 23 July 1999

Christopher Clamp

From the
Jerald Melberg Gallery web site:
A native of Leesville, South Carolina, Christopher Clamp received his BFA with a concentration in painting from Winthrop University in 2001. He was recently honored by being included in the prestigious biennial Re-Presenting Representation at the Arnot Museum in Elmira, New York. He has also been honored with inclusion in the 2001 South Carolina Triennial at the South Carolina State Museum.

Clamp's deeply personal images are influenced by simple yet poignant childhood memories. The commonplace toys and objects featured in his paintings are artifacts gathered in the process of recollecting childhood experiences, particularly the hours spent with his beloved grandfather, amidst his grandfather's collected "treasures" and tools. The objects are meaningful to the artist and to his execution of both content and the carefully executed textures within the paintings. The viewer is invited to bring his or her own personal history to the narrative that unfolds within each painting.

Works by Christopher Clamp: Study for "Waking Together"

Carol Cook

Carol Cook is an artist based in Savannah, Georgia.

Works by Carol Cook: Millennium Series

Joe Cook

Joe Cook and his wife Monica are free-lance photographers who reside in Rome, Georgia. They are most well-known for their photographs of the Appalachian Trail, which they have hiked from end to end, and the Chattahoochee River.

Joe and Monica have their own web site, which you can view by clicking here.

Works by Joe Cook: Joyce Kilmer Memorial Forest

Kathleen Norris Cook

From Kathleen's
web site:
Kathleen was born in Louisiana, and after obtaining a Fine Arts degree from Mississippi College, spent thirteen years as a successful commercial artist. She began her career in New Orleans, with interim years spent in Atlanta and Dallas. Eventually, she began her career as a photographer while living in Arizona. Although she had no formal training in photography, her education and experience in the advertising field endowed her with an eye for the medium.

After months of tenaciously studying lighting and how it affects the landscape, her photograph of Toroweap Overlook above the Grand Canyon was published as a full page pictorial in the November 1978 issue of Arizona Highways magazine. After that, several assignments followed, and Kathleen quickly became known as a legitimate landscape and commercial photographer.

Kathleen has completed four books, the most recent, a national award winning coffee table book, Spirit of the San Juans. Other publications are: Yosemite, Valley of Thunder, a large pictorial book; Exploring Mountain Highways, a book featuring her panoramic photography; and The Million Dollar Highway, a book dealing with the area along the San Juan Skyway between Durango and Ouray, Colorado. She was also a major contributor to the recently published book, Nature of America.

Kathleen's permanent residence and offices are located in Ouray, Colorado.

Works by Kathleen Norris Cook: Killer Cloud

Robert Cottingham

Robert Cottingham is one of America's leading photorealists. Born in 1935 in Brooklyn, New York, Cottingham is best known for his crisply depicted representations of the urban American landscape. He came to prominence in the photorealist era of the late 1960s and 1970s, inspired by Pop artists' use of commercial imagery, but also influenced by earlier realists such as Edward Hopper and Charles Demuth.

Cottingham's works are included in many public collections, including the Guggenheim Museum of Art, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, and the Museum of Modern Art, New York; the Honolulu Academy of Arts, Honolulu, Hawai'i; the Library of Congress and the National Museum of American Art in the Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC; the Tate Gallery, London, England; and many other museums around the world.

Works by Robert Cottingham: Nite

Arless Day

From the invitation to a show at the
Jerald Melberg Gallery:
A native of Baton Rouge, Louisiana, Arless Day builds the best of all possible worlds in his collage-paintings of pastoral architecture, landscapes, and interiors. Day constructs these environments from scores of images collected, cut, torn, and then pasted. The artist then "pulls the image together" by painting over the collage with gouache. The dream world he creates sparks joy, delight, and whimsy in the observer.

Looking at Day's collages, the viewer encounters a series of points of view that create a panoramic passage, from close-ups to distant views, from expansive interiors to syncopated vistas and back again. Like admirers of a travel book, we receive an idea of the artist's world through a window. Yet we see a place that does not exist in reality, only in the assemblage that Day has created.

Arless Day's works can be found in numerous public and corporate collections, including BASF; Fidelity Investments; IBM Corporation; the Art in Embassies program; the Mint Museum, Charlotte, North Carolina; the Gibbes Museum, Charleston, South Carolina; the Columbus Museum, Columbus, Georgia; and The Ringling School collection.

Works by Arless Day: A Timeless Day, Passage Thru Time, Seven Birds And An Angel


Arless Day and Clay Johanson, Jerald Melberg Gallery, 22 September 2000

Nadège Desgenétez

Nadège Desgenétez (pronounced "nah DEZH DAY zhen ay tay") was born in France in 1973, and has studied at glass schools in both France and the United States. She is currently a glassblower at Benjamin Moore Glass in Seattle, Washington, where she assists other glass artists with their work when she's not working on her own work, and has acted as a teaching assistant on many occasions.

Works by Nadège Desgenétez: Q-Tips, Two-Tone Vase



Nadège Desgenétez and Clay Johanson, Pilchuck Auction, 18 October 2002

Benjamin Edols and Kathy Elliott

From the
William Traver Gallery web site:
Simple and elegant without a need for exaggeration best describes the work of Benjamin Edols and Kathy Elliott. Colors are chosen to accent and enhance the forms, rather than prove them. The vessels demand examination through an idealist's eye with a keen knowledge of Italian designers such as Livio Seguso and Carlo Scarpa. The success of the forms is determined by a skill that is elegant, soft, and quietly seductive. Benjamin Edols and Kathy Elliott are dedicated to the glass process and are determined to realize a particular vision that is distinctive and original. The couple's goal is to "distill ideas and fantasies into a body of work."
Benjamin Edols' and Kathy Elliott's works can be found in the collections of the Glasmuseum Alter Hof Herding, Amsterdam, The Netherlands; the National Gallery of Australia, Canberra, Australia; the Powerhouse Museum, Sydney, Australia; and the Queensland Art Gallery, Brisbane, Australia.

Works by Benjamin Edols and Kathy Elliott: Black Reticello Crease

Stephen Gleasner

From the
Jerald Melberg Gallery web site:
Stephen Gleasner’s elegant, polished vessels are tangible proof of his lifelong interest in woodworking. Using a lathe and various woodworking tools, Gleasner laminates multiple layers of plywood veneer together to create these luminous works of art.

Currently residing in Maine, Stephen Gleasner received a BA in English from Appalachian State University in Boone, North Carolina. Gleasner has been represented in many gallery exhibitions from coast to coast, and his work can be found in the permanent collection of the Contemporary Museum of Art in Honolulu, Hawaii.

Works by Stephen Gleasner: Night On Clouds


Stephen Gleasner and Clay Johanson, Jerald Melberg Gallery, 12 September 2003

Kirk Goetchius

Born in 1961, Kirk Goetchius (pronounced "GETCH us") is the chairman of the art department at the Shady Hill School in Cambridge, Massachusetts. His works have been exhibited in several art galleries in the Boston and Cape Cod areas of Massachusetts.

Works by Kirk Goetchius: November

Gwendolyn Graine

Gwendolyn works out of a studio located in the Torpedo Factory (a renovated structure that is occupied by many artists' studios) in Alexandria, Virginia. She uses several techniques to create interesting images, including the use of torn Japanese paper and painting on glass. Her works are included in several collections, including the United States Embassy, Paris, France; Reynolds Metals, Inc. and Phillip Morris, Inc., Richmond, Virginia; the Cystic Fibrosis Foundation, San Diego, California; and Columbia Hospital, Washington, DC.

Gwendolyn has her own web site, which you can view by clicking here.

Works by Gwendolyn Graine: Spectral

Nancy Hammond

From Nancy Hammond's fact sheet:
Nancy Hammond is a painter who loves water life. Boat yards, black labs, crab feasts, tropical ports, iridescent fish are all scenes from her life of living near the water. Her studio and home are in deep country on the eastern shore of Chesapeake Bay. She grew up in Skaneateles, one of the Finger Lakes in upstate New York. Summers were spent on Murray Isle on the St. Lawrence River. For many years, she cruised the Chesapeake on the sloop Northern Sky. In the winter, she has often sought refuge in the Bahamas. Drawings of details are noted in her sketchbook and brought home to the studio to find their way into paintings. Majoring in painting at the Rhode Island School of Design, her work has since been chosen to be exhibited in galleries; Baltimore Museum of Art and Maryland Institute of Art, among others.

Hammond began her Chesapeake work with a series of silkscreened posters. The prints have been an outstanding success and are in collections here and abroad. Since then she has gone on to produce many limited edition fine art prints. The silkscreen prints are all hand pulled from hand cut stencils. Her limited editions are small in number, printed on 100% rag paper, and signed and numbered by the artist. Favorites of yachtsmen, these serigraphs have been received enthusiastically by art critics as well.

In her studio, many works progress simultaneously. Commissions and special projects are propped against the walls, mingling with her constructions, designs and paintings. Her constructions are paintings in layers to a depth of several inches. Crayons, acrylic paint and glue are everywhere and a myriad of colorful paper scraps carpet the floor, evidence of her favorite working medium, cut paper.

Nancy Hammond Editions publishes and distributes Nancy Hammond's work. The gallery at 64 State Circle is in the heart of historic Annapolis, a sailing mecca. There people are welcome to meet the artist, who is often there, and see her new works as they are published.

You can view Nancy's web site by clicking
here.

Works by Nancy Hammond: Romp

Mila Holy

Works by Mila Holy:
Raku Plaque

David Huchthausen

From the
William Traver Gallery web site:
David Huchthausen's sculptures use color and pattern to elevate the optical effects of glass. As reflections dart and shift through one of his pieces, the viewer is forced to move and regard the piece as an object in space. The result is a dialogue between the immateriality of light and the physical relationship of a viewer and a sculpture. Huchthausen moves beyond the notion of fragmentation by integrating near perfection in craftsmanship with enigmatic illusion.
David Huchthausen is one of the pioneers in the field of glass coldworking techniques. As a student, he served as a graduate technical assistant under Harvey K. Littleton at the University of Wisconsin. His works are found in many museum collections, including the Corning Museum, Corning, New York; the Metropolitan Museum of Art and the American Craft Museum, New York; the Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC; the International Glass Museum, Ebeltoft, Denmark; the Hokkaido Museum of Art, Sapporo, Japan; the Museum of Decorative Arts, Praha, Czech Republic; the Museum of Fine Arts, Lausanne, Switzerland; and the High Museum, Atlanta, Georgia.

To view David's web site, which he and I designed together and which I constructed and maintain for him, click here.

Works by David Huchthausen: Implosion Sequence DRH93W, Polar Sequence DRH97PS



David Huchthausen and Clay Johanson, William Traver Gallery, 3 May 2001

Dick Huss

Based in Saint Paul, Minnesota, Dick Huss is a glass artist who has served on the faculties of the
Penland School in Penland, North Carolina and the University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota. His works are included in many collections, including the Corning Museum of Glass, Corning, New York; the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois; the Muskegon Museum of Art, Muskegon, Michigan; and the Saint Louis Art Museum, Saint Louis, Missouri.

Works by Dick Huss: White Opal Gold Leaf Bowl

Sidney R. Hutter

Born in 1954, Sidney Hutter earned his BS in Art at Illinois State University and his MFA at the Massachusetts College of Art. He now operates his own studio in Waltham, Massachusetts. His works are included in many collections, including the Corning Museum of Glass, Corning, New York; the American Craft Museum and the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York; and the White House Collection.

Sidney has his own web site, which you can view by clicking here.

Works by Sidney R. Hutter: Solid Vase Form #72



Clay Johanson and Sidney Hutter, Hutter Glass and Light, 17 August 2000

Toshio Iezumi

Born in 1954 in Ashikaga City, Japan, Toshio Iezumi is a glass lecturer and teacher at the Kurashiki University of Science and the Arts in Kurashiki, Japan. His works are included in the collections of the Corning Museum of Glass, Corning, New York; Chuo-ku, Adachi-ku, and the Suntory Museum, Tokyo, Japan; the Tokyo Glass Art Institute, Kawasaki, Japan; the Tochigi Prefectural Museum of Fine Art, Utsunomiya, Japan; the Ashikaga Museum of Art, Ashikaga, Japan; and the Kurashiki Sakuyo University, Kurashiki, Japan. He has participated in glass shows all over the world, including the United States, Italy, Germany, Denmark, and Japan.

Toshio has his own web site, which you can view by clicking here.

Works by Toshio Iezumi: F.020999

Robert Irwin

Robert Irwin was born in 1944 in Latrobe, Pennsylvania. He received his BA in Art from Shaw University in Raleigh, North Carolina, and his MFA in Product Design from the North Carolina State University School of Design, also in Raleigh. His works are included in many corporate collections in North Carolina, including SAS Institute in Cary; Glaxo Wellcome in the Research Triangle Park; the News and Observer Publishing Company in Raleigh; and Wachovia in Raleigh. Before committing to being a full-time artist, Irwin owned Images, Inc., a production company in Raleigh that specialized in contract furnishings.

Robert has his own web site, which you can view by clicking here.

Works by Robert Irwin: Red, White, and Blue II



Clay Johanson and Robert Irwin, Raleigh Contemporary Gallery, 10 September 2004

Herb Jackson

Herb Jackson is the William H. Williamson Professor of Fine Arts at Davidson College in Davidson, North Carolina, just north of Charlotte, and has been head of the Davidson art department since 1982. He specializes in painting and drawing, and his works can be found in over 80 museum collections around the world, including the British Museum, London, England.

In 1999, Herb Jackson was awarded the North Carolina Award, the state's highest civilian honor, for his lifetime achievements in art.

Herb has his own web site, which you can view by clicking here.

Works by Herb Jackson: Blue Point, Unspoiled Waters



Clay Johanson and Herb Jackson, Jerald Melberg Gallery, 2 October 1999

Earl James

Earl James is a glass-blower based in Cleveland, Ohio. He makes some very nice glass pieces such as bowls and vases, and they're very reasonably priced if you're just starting a collection.

Works by Earl James: Vase

Paul Jenkins

From the invitation to a show at the
Jerald Melberg Gallery:
Paul Jenkins was born in Kansas City, Missouri in 1923. As a teenager, Jenkins worked in a ceramics factory, where he was first exposed to color intensity and the creation of form. Later, Jenkins studied at the Kansas City Art Institute before serving in the United States Naval Air Corps during World War II. In 1948, he returned to the United States and enrolled at the Art Students League in New York. During Jenkins' three years at the League, Yasuo Kuniyoshi and Morris Kantor were his influential instructors.

It was in the early 1950s that Jenkins traveled to Europe and settled in Paris, where he met Jean Dubuffet, Georges Mathieu, Mark Tobey, and other American artists living abroad at the time. Greatly influenced by Jackson Pollock and Mark Rothko, who were both friends, Jenkins is known for his inventive method of pouring paint directly onto the canvas, as well as for pure, prismatic color. He often uses an ivory knife or a brush for finishing, but never allows a stroke to show.

Jenkins has traveled extensively, but France remains his home away from home. He divides his time between a home and studio in New York and Saint-Paul.

Paul Jenkins has been honored with over one hundred and sixty solo exhibitions in galleries and museums all over the world. His work can be found in virtually every major museum collection from the United States to Europe to Japan, including the Museum of Modern Art and the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York; the National Museum of American Art and the National Gallery in Washington, DC; and the Tate Gallery and the Victoria and Albert Museum in London, among many others.

Works by Paul Jenkins: Phenomena Moby Dick


Clay Johanson and Paul Jenkins, Jerald Melberg Gallery, 14 February 2003

Clay Johanson

I was born in Fort Walton Beach, Florida, in 1968. As an Air Force brat, I lived in Florida, Hawai'i, Rhode Island, South Carolina, Germany, the United Kingdom, and finally North Carolina. Since 1992, I have lived in or around Charlotte, North Carolina, working for
Microsoft Corporation from March 1992 to September 2000 and Vialogix Communications Inc. from September 2000 to June 2001. Since then, I have been working as a contractor at Microsoft.

My artistic talent is usually confined to the creation of my web pages (which you may, or may not, consider a work of art)... however, I have been fortunate enough to have the chance to try my hand at glassblowing on a couple of occasions. (It's a lot harder than you might think.)

Works by Clay Johanson: @Littleton/Vogel 1, @Littleton/Vogel 2, @Simpson 1

Wolf Kahn

From the
Jerald Melberg Gallery web site:
Wolf Kahn was born in Stuttgart, Germany, in 1927 and emigrated to the U.S. as a child. After attending classes at the New School for Social Research, he studied with Hans Hofmann at his School of Fine Art in New York City. In 1951, Kahn received his BA from the University of Chicago. An internationally acclaimed artist, Kahn has been honored with numerous awards, including both Fulbright and Guggenheim Fellowships. He is an elected member of the National Academy of Design, the American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters and has served on the New York Arts Commission.

Kahn has come to be widely considered the premier landscape painter in America. Color is Wolf Kahn’s signature and he says this about his work: "...this is my primary interest. I am always trying to get to the danger point, where color either becomes too sweet or too harsh; too noisy or too quiet..." Always striving to keep his art "tough" and to keep an "edge", Wolf Kahn makes landscape paintings with unmatched luminosity.

Works by Wolf Kahn: Acacia (Namibia), Barn With Double Silos


Clay Johanson and Wolf Kahn, Jerald Melberg Gallery, 10 November 2000

Lee (Johanson) Kennedy

My sister Lee was a student of Bob Rankin's when she was in high school at Sanderson... he had a profound influence on her style.

Lee lives in the Washington, DC area with her husband Don, son Will, and dog Maggie (that's Maggie on the right, shown in a moment of relative calm).

Hey Maggie, you're on the Internet!

Works by Lee Kennedy: Colors, Shattered



Maggie "Chews On Everything" Kennedy, May 1999

Harri Koskinen

Harri Koskinen is a Finnish glass designer. His Block Lamp design has won several design awards.

Works by Harri Koskinen: Block Lamp

Mayme Kratz

Born in 1958 in San Diego County, California, Mayme (pronounced "mame") Kratz is a published poet and self-taught artist. Her works are included in the collections of the Tucson Museum of Art, Tucson, Arizona; the Phoenix Art Museum, Phoenix, Arizona; the Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art, Scottsdale, Arizona; Bank of America, Phoenix, Arizona; and Nordstrom's, Phoenix, Arizona. She was a visiting artist at the
Pilchuck School in 1998.

Works by Mayme Kratz: Notes On Truth #5



Clay Johanson and Mayme Kratz, Renee George Gallery, 3 June 2005

Jon Kuhn

Jon Kuhn (pronounced "kyoon") earned a BFA from Washburn University in Topeka, Kansas, in 1972, and an MFA from Virginia Commonwealth University in Richmond, Virginia, in 1978. An independent studio artist since 1978, Jon Kuhn now works in his own studio in Winston-Salem, North Carolina. For more than twenty years, Kuhn's glass sculptures have been at the forefront of the international glass movement.

In Jon's own words: Rhythm, patterns, and sequences are the basics of all my compositions. My interests in architecture, music, mathematics, and textiles strongly influence my current work. The goal of spirituality is perfection. Striving for perfection has never been more evident in what I do. Perhaps my sculpture has become an architectural model of a vision for a better world.

Kuhn's works can be found in many collections, including the Corning Museum of Glass, Corning, New York; the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York; the National Museum of American Art in the Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC; the Museum für Kunst und Gewerbe, Hamburg, Germany; the Ebeltoft International Glass Museum, Ebeltoft, Denmark; the Musée des Arts Decoratif, Lausanne, Switzerland; the Royal Ontario Museum, Toronto, Canada; and the Mint Museum, Charlotte, North Carolina. Kuhn's work has been exhibited in well over 100 group exhibitions and more than 40 solo exhibitions.

Jon has his own web site, which you can view by clicking here.

Works by Jon Kuhn: Roman Blue, Winds So Blue



Jon Kuhn and Clay Johanson, Jon Kuhn Studios, 24 November 1999

Jeremy Lepisto

From the 2002 Pilchuck Auction catalog:
Jeremy Lepisto received his BFA from Alfred University in 1997. He has attended the Pilchuck Glass School as a scholarship student, a technician, a teaching assistant, and a studio coordinator. He is currently a studio artist and cofounder of Studio Ramp.
Works by Jeremy Lepisto: Blue Print


Jeremy Lepisto and Clay Johanson, Pilchuck Auction, 18 October 2002

Harvey K. Littleton

Born in 1922 in Corning, New York, Harvey Littleton is one of the founders of the American studio glass movement. He was made Professor Emeritus of the University of Wisconsin at Madison in 1977, after serving as chairman of the university's art department. While at Wisconsin, Littleton worked with such celebrated glassmakers as Dale Chihuly, Erwin Eisch, Marvin Lipofsky, and Tom McGlauchlin. He has since retired from teaching and glassblowing, and now works on the art of vitreographs (printmaking using glass plates) in his studio in North Carolina.

Littleton's works can be found in many collections, including the Corning Museum of Glass, Corning, New York; the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York; the Museum of Modern Art, Kyoto, Japan; the Victoria and Albert Museum, London, England; the Mint Museum of Craft + Design, Charlotte, North Carolina; and the Decorative Arts Museums in both Praha, Czech Republic, and Vienna, Austria.

Works by Harvey K. Littleton: Blue / Yellow Vertical Arc



Clay Johanson and Harvey Littleton, Littleton Studios, 11 August 2000

John Littleton and Kate Vogel

Husband and wife John Littleton and Kate Vogel are collaborative studio artists working in Bakersville, North Carolina. (Not far from Spruce Pine, where John's father Harvey has his studio.) Their work is included in numerous collections, including the the Federal Reserve Bank and the Mint Museum of Art, Charlotte, North Carolina; the High Museum of Art, Atlanta, Georgia; the Musée des Arts Decoratifs, Lausanne, Switzerland; and the White House Craft Collection, Washington, DC.

Works by John Littleton and Kate Vogel: Acro Bags, Bag Explosion



Kate Vogel, John Littleton, and Clay Johanson, Penland School, 12 August 2000

Sue Lynch

From Sue Lynch's
web site at the Torpedo Factory:
Sue Lynch paints sails as if one were viewing a regatta from a harbor window. She captures the movement of wind, sail and water and asks the viewer to participate in the vibrancy. Her many awards include Best in Show of the Virginia Watercolor Society and her work is in numerous collections including the State Department, Texaco, Inc., George Mason University, the state of New Jersey, U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Agency and James Madison University.
Sue's works are available through the Annapolis Marine Art Gallery and her studio at the Torpedo Factory in Alexandria, Virginia.

Works by Sue Lynch: Noon On The Bay



Sue Lynch and Clay Johanson, Annapolis Marine Art Gallery, 1 April 2000

Dona McNeill

Works by Dona McNeill:
Raku Bottle

Thomas McNickle

From the invitation to a show at the
Jerald Melberg Gallery:
A member of the American and National Watercolor Societies, Thomas McNickle's exceptional technical ability has been evident since he first began painting in his teens. An intrinsic feature of his painting, however, is the Zen philosophy of rapid execution. Approaching each painting in a meditative state, McNickle relies on complete and relaxed concentration for the layering of direct, spontaneous strokes of color. The power and individuality of these brushstrokes transforms archetypal motifs into unique and personal images.

Thomas McNickle's work has been exhibited in over thirty museum and gallery exhibitions and can be found in numerous collections, including the Butler Institute of American Art; the Hoyt Institute of Fine Art; Vero Beach Center for the Arts; Kansas State University; BASF Corporation; Bank of America; and US Airways.

Works by Thomas McNickle: Farm Across The Swale, Last Of The Ice, Slanting Clouds, Surf Study Suite, Winter Shadows From The Hilltop


Thomas McNickle and Clay Johanson, Jerald Melberg Gallery, 15 March 2002

Tobias Møhl

From the
William Traver Gallery web site:
Møhl, a virtuoso master student of Lino Tagliapietra, delivers a minimalist Scandinavian aesthetic through the rigors of Venetian technique. Employing a palette limited almost exclusively to black and white, the Dane's hybrid approach uses subtle textures and organic forms to create coherent and elegant work.
Born in 1970 in Aaloborg, Denmark, Tobias has worked with renowned glass artist Lino Tagliapietra since 1996. He has won several awards in his native Denmark, including the Danish States Art Society Award in 1998 and 1999. His works are included in the collections of the Ebeltoft Glasmuseum, Ebeltoft, Denmark; the Danish States Art Collection and the Danish Queens Collection, Denmark; and the Nordenfjelske Kunstindustrimuseum, Trondheim, Norway.

Works by Tobias Møhl: Konkylie (Conch Bowl), Zoom

Mark Monson

From the
Glasshouse Studio web site:
Mark has a degree in Biomedical Engineering and uses his experience in two and three dimensional art to combine a broad range of styles and motifs in his work. With solo shows in New York and Chicago to his credit, as well as numerous commissions and awards, Mark approaches glass with the skills and sensitivities of an experienced painter and sculptor. His glass training began as assistant to James Nowak, with whom he spent three years before becoming a partner at Glasshouse Studio.
Works by Mark Monson: Magnum Weight, Sphere

Benjamin Moore

Benjamin Moore is a Seattle-based glass blower who has served on the faculty of several glass schools, including the Niijima Glass Art Center in Japan and the
Pilchuck School in Stanwood, Washington. He has also served as the executive director of the Pilchuck School. He received his BFA from the California College of Arts and Crafts in 1974, and his MFA from the Rhode Island School of Design in 1977. He is the owner of Benjamin Moore Glass in Seattle, and artists such as Dale Chihuly and Lino Tagliapietra have been known to work with Moore and his crew of glassblowers.

Museums exhibiting Moore's work include the Corning Museum of Glass, Corning, New York; the National Museum of American Art in the Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC; the High Museum of Art, Atlanta, Georgia; the Venini Collection, Murano, Italy; the Glasmuseum, Ebeltoft, Denmark; and the Niijima Contemporary Glass Art Museum, Niijima, Japan.

You can view Benjamin's web site by clicking here.

Works by Benjamin Moore: Uranium Yellow Interior Fold



Clay Johanson and Benjamin Moore, Pilchuck School, 8 August 2000

Mark Morris

Mark Morris is a professional glass artist based in New Orleans, Louisiana. He has studied under well-known glass artists such as Dante Marioni and Benjamin Moore, served as a teaching assistant at the Pratt Fine Arts Center in Seattle, Washington, participated in the Emerging Artist in Residence program at the Pilchuck Glass School, and served as Artist in Residence at the Bullseye Glass Factory in Portland, Oregon. He has invented new techniques for applying photo-imagery to fused and blown glass.

Works by Mark Morris: Camera Shy

Mel Munsen

From the
William Traver Gallery web site:
Munsen came to his current fusing and murrine techniques through a fascination with Venini's production of designs by Carlo Scarpa of the 1930s, 1940s and 1950s, and later designs by his son Tobias Scarpa. Munsen's own murrine work shows that he is virtually without peer in his sense of design and technical perfection. Munsen somehow manages to present incredible detail with a flowing sense of rhythm. The artist's color sense is lively and yet maintains a richness through many pockets of subtlety. To further engage the effect of the color, Munsen polishes his pieces down until they are unusually thin. This not only delivers a delicacy to the feel of the piece, but the process effects a translucency rarely—if ever—found in fused and slumped glass.
Mel Munsen was born in San Diego, California in 1946, and emigrated to Canada in 1970. His works are included in the collections of the Art Gallery of Greater Victoria and the British Columbia Royal Museum, both in Victoria, British Columbia, Canada.

Works by Mel Munsen: Black Murrine Bowl with Teal Rim



Clay Johanson and Mel Munsen, Pilchuck Auction, 18 October 2002

Don Nice

Don Nice was born in Visalia, California in 1932. After receiving his BFA at the University of Southern California, Nice earned his MFA from the Yale University School of Art, New Haven, Connecticut. Nice taught at the School of Visual Arts in New York for many years. Since 1982, he has been artist-in-residence at Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire. Nice lives and works in Garrison, New York.

Museums exhibiting Nice's work in their permanent collections include the Delaware Art Museum, Wilmington, Delaware; the Minneapolis Institute of Art, Minneapolis, Minnesota; the Museum of Modern Art and the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; and Arnhems Museum, The Netherlands.

Nice gained recognition as a New Realist painter in the early 1960s. Realistic renderings of packaged and processed items are very large, detailed studies of the optical image. Close-ups of light reflections on plastic wrap or glass reveal a beauty even in commercial objects. His illusionistic still lifes are artificial arrangements of foods and grocery items or synthetic objects such as tennis shoes. Nice's recent work continues the depiction of single items, often combining media and including new subjects.

Works by Don Nice: Indian Brook Falls X

David Nichols

David Nichols is a glass artist based in Matthews, North Carolina (just outside of Charlotte).

Works by David Nichols: Vase

Ben Owen III

Ben Owen III is a master potter based in Seagrove, North Carolina, location of the renowned Jugtown pottery center. Like his grandfather and father before him, Ben has specialized in ceramics, even travelling to Japan to study the art. As a result, many of his works have an Asian influence.

Works by Ben Owen III: Vase

Tom Pfannerstill

Born in Milwaukee, Wisconsin in 1951, Tom Pfannerstill received his BFA from Western Kentucky University in 1975. He has been a full-time studio artist since 1986, and his works are included in the collections of Bellarmine College, Louisville, Kentucky; the Evansville Museum of Arts and Sciences, Evansville, Indiana; and the Flint Institute of Arts, Flint, Michigan.

Works by Tom Pfannerstill: Donuts

Bob Rankin

Bob Rankin is an artist and ex-high school art teacher based in Raleigh, North Carolina. He specializes in modern/abstract art, which usually includes very bright colors and textures. However, he's not limited to abstract work; Bob also creates representational and impressionist works. Bob was my sister's art teacher at Sanderson High School... as a result, he had an influence on her art style as well.

I am a big fan of Bob's work... I don't think I've ever seen a work of his that I didn't like. As a result, Bob's work makes up a very large part of my collection... he is constantly coming up with new styles of work.

To view Bob's web site, which I designed and maintain for him, click here.

Works by Bob Rankin (take a deep breath): Abstract Sketch, Abstract Umbria Series, Anasazi Red, Anderson Ranch, Big Blue, Blue and Green, Blue Sky 1, Cadmium Breakthrough 1, Capri Blue Grotto Series, Chamber Sketch Series, Cobalt Abstract, Colorado Copper Series, Columbine Figure, CompuDraw, Denver Approach Series, Emerging Red Series, Energy Release 1, Ethereal, Glad To Meet You Series, Grey Surface, Italian Southwest Plain, Jam Session, Meandering Square, Metropolis, New Landscape, Obelisk, On The Road To Ghost Ranch, On The Road To Taos, Plain Black and White Plane, Pueblo Fire Series, Rankinsky Series, Rankinsky's Pick-Up Sticks, Red Dash Series, Sea Sound 1, Skyline, Small Black and White Petroglyph, Solo Surf Surface, Spectrum 1, Square Surface Series, Stone Wall 1, Surf Surface 6, Surf Surface 7, Thermal Pool, Tidal Marsh 1, Todi Abstract, Todi Cypresses 1, Umbrian Window, Umbriascape Series, VAIO Boy, Venetian Marsh, What's the Point?, Wide Enough For You?, Wrightsville Beach 1



Clay Johanson and Bob Rankin at Artsplosure '99, Raleigh, North Carolina

Colin Reid

Colin Reid was born in 1953 in Cheshire, England. He received a BA from the Stourbridge School of Art in 1981 and two master's degrees from the Edinburgh School of Art, in 1992 and 1994. Since 1991, he has operated his own studio in Stroud, England. His works may be found in the collections of the Victoria and Albert Museum, London; the Corning Museum of Glass, Corning, New York; the Ebeltoft Glasmuseum, Ebeltoft, Denmark; the Hokkaido Museum of Art, Sapporo, Japan; and the Museum of Decorative Arts, Praha, Czech Republic.

Colin has his own web site, which you can view by clicking here.

Works by Colin Reid: Blue Block

Kit Reuther

Based in Tennessee, Kit Reuther (pronounced "roother") spent over a decade as an architectural illustrator before becoming a full-time artist. Her works are included in the collections of the Tennessee State Museum, Nashville and BellSouth, Nashville.

Works by Kit Reuther: Chalk, Fishbowl

Martin Rosol

Born in Prague, Czechoslovakia in 1956, Martin was educated at the School for Arts and Crafts in Prague. He worked as a glass grinder from 1976 to 1985, when he and his family escaped to West Germany, where they remained until 1988. He moved to the United States in 1988. His works are included in numerous public collections, including the American Craft Museum, New York; the Kanazawa Museum, Japan; and the Moravian National Gallery, Brno, Czech Republic.

Works by Martin Rosol: Open Plan XV



Martin Rosol and Clay Johanson, Martin Rosol Studio, 22 May 2001

Tommie Rush

From the catalog for the Mint Museum of Craft + Design's 2001 Mint Condition Gala:
Tommie Rush is a native of Mobile, Alabama. She received a BFA from the University of Tennessee at Knoxville and has studied at the Arrowmont School of Crafts and Northshore Pottery. Tommie's work has been exhibited in more than 50 solo group exhibitions, from San Diego to New York City. Her work can be found in the collections of the Renwick Gallery of the National Museum of American Art, the Mobile Museum of Art, the Sheldon Memorial Art Gallery and Sculpture Garden, the Tennessee State Museum, and the North Carolina State University Museum of Art and Design. Tommie lives and works in Knoxville, Tennessee.
Works by Tommie Rush:
Blue Apple

Marion Sak

Marion Sak received her MFA in Metal Design from East Carolina University in 2007. Her jewelry, cups, and raised metal vessels have been exhibited in a number of group and solo shows.

Marion has her own web site, which you can view by clicking here.

Works by Marion Sak: Honey

Nick Sapone

Nick Sapone is a maker of hand-made decoys, both the traditional solid-wood variety and the newer canvas-frame variety. Nick operates out of a workshop in his home in Wanchese, North Carolina. Decoys are priced between about US$70 and US$150, depending on the size and complexity of each decoy. To order a decoy from Nick, give him a call: he's listed in directory assistance in Wanchese. I've ordered decoys directly from him before, and I visited his workshop in September 1996, just before the arrival of Hurricane Fran.

Works by Nick Sapone: Red-Breasted Merganser Decoy, Swan Decoy

Thomas Sayre

Thomas Sayre is an architect and principal of the Clearscapes architectural firm in Raleigh, North Carolina. He also happens to be the grandson of President Woodrow Wilson. Thomas is one of the architects who helped design the
Exploris Museum in Raleigh.

Works by Thomas Sayre: Gunshot Test, Wireshape

SD Studios

Prior to its dissolution, SD Studios was an organization of artisans who produced replica props for movies such as Aliens, Judge Dredd, and the James Bond series of films. SD Studios were well-known for the incredible workmanship and attention to detail in their replicas. Some of the folks involved with SD Studios remain active in the prop industry, producing props for movies such as the Star Wars series of films.

Works by SD Studios: Armat M41-A Pulse Rifle

Josh Simpson

Born in 1949, Josh Simpson received his BA in Education at Hamilton College in Clinton, New York. Josh is well-known for a variety of styles of work, including planets, tektites, portals, and New Mexico glass. Josh's studio is located in Shelburne Falls, Massachusetts.

His works are included in the permanent collections of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Massachusetts; the Chrysler Museum of Art, Norfolk, Virginia; the Museum of Decorative Arts, Praha, Czech Republic; the Renwick Gallery of the Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC; the Corning Museum of Glass, Corning, New York; the Royal Ontario Museum, Toronto, Canada; the Sphere Museum, Tokyo, Japan; the Mint Museum of Craft + Design, Charlotte, North Carolina; and other many other museums.

Josh has his own web site, which you can view by clicking here.

Click here to see all of the planets in my collection together in a single image.

Works by Josh Simpson: AP 95.05, Black New Mexico Vase, Dark Persephone, Gravitron, Grey Vase, Inhabited Planet, Iridescent New Mexico Vase, Mars Prototype, Microplanet, New Mexico Bowl, New Mexico Plate, New Mexico Vase, Red New Mexico Bowl, Red New Mexico Planet, Verdant Ceres (donated to the Mint Museum of Craft + Design)



Clay Johanson and Josh Simpson, Vespermann Gallery, 18 March 2000

Preston Singletary

From the
William Traver Gallery web site:
Preston Singletary has been blowing glass for twenty years. During this time he has worked with some of the most talented artists of the Studio Glass Movement—Lino Tagliapietra, Benjamin Moore, Dante Marioni, and Dale Chihuly, to name a few. Singletary's extensive technical skill and experience when combined with his Tlingit heritage effectively place him at a unique intersection of two of the Northwest Coast's most important artistic movements. To his credit, Singletary has never subjugated one to the other: as a glassblower, his work is masterful, and as a Native artist, his work is genuine and sincere.
Preston's works can be found in many collections, including the Mint Museum of Craft + Design, Charlotte, North Carolina; the Seattle Art Museum, Seattle, Washington; the Museum of Natural History, Anchorage, Alaska; and the Handelsbanken, Stockholm, Sweden.

Works by Preston Singletary: Soul Catcher



Clay Johanson and Preston Singletary, Benjamin Moore Glass, 15 February 2002

Jarvis Snow

Works by Jarvis Snow:
Canada Goose Decoy

Beau Stahl

Beau Stahl is an artist based in Pensacola, Florida.

Works by Beau Stahl: Barn Raising

Richard Stenhouse

From the invitation to a show at the
Jerald Melberg Gallery:
Richard Stenhouse studied architecture at North Carolina State University before pursuing his BA degree in Visual Arts from the University of North Carolina at Charlotte. He subsequently received his MFA degree in Visual Arts from the University of North Carolina at Greensboro. Mr. Stenhouse has participated in more than 60 solo and group exhibitions, establishing a national reputation for his intimate, haunting drawings.
Works by Richard Stenhouse: Bridge, Huntington Beach: Spring 2001, #1, The Forbidden Room


Clay Johanson and Richard Stenhouse, Jerald Melberg Gallery, 14 April 2000

Ken Swanson

Ken Swanson is a printmaker based in Milwaukee, Wisconsin.

Works by Ken Swanson: Skyscraper

Lino Tagliapietra

Lino Tagliapietra was born in Murano, Italy, in 1934. He began apprenticeship with Archimede Seguso at the age of twelve and became a Maestro at twenty-one. For the last twenty years, he has taught at some of the most important glass schools in the United States and around the world, including the
Pilchuck School in Stanwood, Washington and the Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, Rhode Island.

His works are included in many collections, including the Corning Museum of Glass, Corning, New York; the Glasmuseum, Ebeltoft, Denmark; the Hokkaido Museum of Modern Art, Japan; the Musée des Arts Decoratifs, Palais du Louvre, Paris, France; the Aperto Vetro and Palazzo Grassi, Venice, Italy; and the Victoria and Albert Museum, London, England.

Lino has his own web site, which you can view by clicking here.

Works by Lino Tagliapietra: Chasing



Clay Johanson and Lino Tagliapietra, William Traver Gallery, 7 August 2000

Tarby Tarver

Tarby Tarver is a ceramist (potter) who works out of Whispering Pines Pottery in Grayson, Louisiana. His specialty is raku pottery.

Works by Tarby Tarver: Raku Bowl, Raku Vase

Ikuzi Teraki

Ikuzi Teraki founded the Romulus Craft studio in Vermont in 1979. He is a native of Kyoto, Japan.

Works by Ikuzi Teraki: Carved Plate

Freeman Thomas

From
ID Magazine:
After graduating from the Art Center College of Design in Pasadena, California, in 1983, Freeman Thomas went to work with Porsche in Germany. In 1987, he returned to California to launch his own firm, Freeman Thomas and Associates, though Porsche remained his main client. Four years later, Thomas was made assistant chief designer for Audi, developing VW's Concept One (the New Beetle) with J. Mays. The Audi TT Coupe was first envisioned in sketch form in 1994, after which Thomas, working in secrecy with a multinational team of designers and engineers, moved the car from concept to finished product.
Freeman Thomas is now the head of advanced product design for DaimlerChrysler.

Works by Freeman Thomas: 2002 Audi TT quattro Coupe

Æsa Björk Thorsteinsdóttir

Born in Iceland, Æsa (pronounced "isa") completed her masters degree at the Edinburgh College of Art in 1997. She lives in Bergen, Norway, where she has set up a studio. Æsa was awarded the Jutta Cuny Franz Memorial Awards' honorary diploma in 1999 and was an Emerging Artist in Residence (EAiR) at the
Pilchuck School that same year. She attended Pilchuck as a teaching assistant for New Zealand glass artist Ann Robinson in the summer of 2000, and her work was included in Clearly Brilliant, the ten-year retrospective of the EAiR program at the Tacoma Art Museum in the fall of 2000.

Æsa has her own web site, which you can view by clicking here.

Works by Æsa Björk Thorsteinsdóttir: Eye, Mallei Vitrei pro Domibus Vitreis

Michael Trimpol

Michael Trimpol began his experience as a glassblower in 1983 at the Sheridan College School of Craft & Design in Mississauga, Ontario, Canada, after completing studies for his MFA at Concordia University in Montreal. In 1995, he established Little River Hotglass Studio in Vermont. Michael has continued to refine his skills by participating in and hosting glass workshops with leading glass artists from around the world.

Works by Michael Trimpol: Bubbleweight

Delos Van Earl

Born in 1951, Delos (pronounced "del OSS") Van Earl received his Bachelor of Arts from California State University in 1974 and his Master of Fine Arts from Mills College in Oakland, California in 1978. His works are included in many private and corporate collections, including the New York Stock Exchange; McColl Partners in Charlotte, North Carolina; and Electronic Data Systems, Los Angeles.

Works by Delos Van Earl: Fog Bank Diptych

Natalie Warrens

Works by Natalie Warrens:
Large Bowl

Steven Weinberg

Born in 1954 in Brooklyn, New York, Steven Weinberg received his BFA from the New York State College of Ceramics at Alfred University, Alfred, New York in 1976, and his MFA from the Rhode Island School of Design in Providence, Rhode Island in 1979.

His works are represented in many museum collections, including the Corning Museum of Glass, Corning, New York; the Hokkaido Museum of Modern Art, Sapporo, Japan; the Kunstmuseum Dusseldorf, Dusseldorf, Germany; the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York; the Musée des Arts Decoratifs, Palais du Louvre, Paris, France; the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Massachusetts; the Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC; and the Victoria and Albert Museum, London, England.

Works by Steven Weinberg: Sydney's Boat



Clay Johanson and Steven Weinberg, William Traver Gallery, 5 August 2000

Bruce M. Williamson (1921-2005)

From the biography included with the
polar bears:
Bruce Williamson was born in Dallas, Texas, in 1921. His family moved to Kansas City during his preschool years. He completed his formal education in the Kansas City public school system. It was during this time that his artistic ability surfaced, as he started sketching and woodcarving. He attended classes at the Kansas City Art Institute. Although this was the extent of his formal art training, he has continued to create many woodcarvings for the pure pleasure of doing so. His life's work also benefitted from his artistic bent as he pursued a career in landscape design and installation. After retiring in 1982 from the day-to-day operation of his nursery and landscaping business, he traveled extensively in Alaska. While there, he became engrossed in the native artwork, especially the stone sculpture. Since that time, being the self-taught artist that he is, he has worked in alabaster and marble wildlife and marine animals.
Works by Bruce M. Williamson: Polar Bears On Ice Floe

Kesler Woodward

Born in 1951 in Aiken, South Carolina, Kesler Woodward received his BA from Davidson College, Davidson, North Carolina, and his MFA from Idaho State University in Pocatello, Idaho. In 1982, he became an assistant professor, teaching painting at the University of Alaska at Fairbanks. He remained there until 2000, when he became professor of art emeritus. His works are included in the collections of numerous corporations and organizations in both Alaska and the Charlotte area of North Carolina.

Kesler has his own web site, which you can view by clicking here.

Works by Kesler Woodward: First Denali

Shinji Yonehara

Shinji Yonehara graduated from the Tama Art University in Tokyo, Japan, in 1986. Since 1994, he has run the Nopporo Glass Studio in Ebetsu City, Japan. His works are included in the collections of the Kunstmuseum, Düsseldorf, Germany; the Glasmuseum, Ebeltoft, Denmark; the Hokkaido Museum of Modern Art, Sapporo, Japan; the Shimonoseki City Art Museum, Shimonoseki, Japan; the Notojima Glass Museum, Ishikawa, Japan; and several other museums in Japan.

Works by Shinji Yonehara: Yohen Bowl

Toots Zynsky

From the
Elliott Brown Gallery web site:
Toots Zynsky’s exquisite filet de verre (glass thread) vessels enjoy a widespread popularity and well-deserved acclaim for their often magnificent and always unique explorations in color. Defying categorization, her extraordinary works inhabit a region all their own, interweaving the traditions of painting, sculpture, and the decorative arts.

Toots Zynsky was born and raised in Massachusetts. (Although her given name was Mary Ann, she was known as "Toots" from an early age.) She received her BFA from the Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, Rhode Island, in 1973, where she majored in glass and sculpture. At RISD, she quickly earned a reputation for daring innovation. Eventually, over the course of her career, she developed the unique processes which she now incorporates in her work.

In 1971, Zynsky was a student founder of the Pilchuck Glass School, Stanwood, Washington and, in 1980-81, co-founded the Second New York Experimental Glass Workshop (now UrbanGlass) in New York. Since that time, she has lectured and extensively exhibited in the United States, Europe, and Asia. Her work is represented in international public and private collections such as the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Museum of Modern Art, and the Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum of the Smithsonian Institution, New York; the Corning Museum of Glass, Corning, New York; the Toledo Museum of Art, Ohio; The White House Collection, Washington, DC; the Musée des Arts Decoratifs, Palais du Louvre, Paris, France; the Museum für Kunst und Gewerbe, Hamburg, Germany; the Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, The Netherlands; the National Gallery of Victoria, Australia; and the Yokohama Museum of Modern Art, Yokohama, Japan. She has received two Visual Arts Fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA), and was awarded the 1988 Rakow Commission by the Corning Museum of Glass.

Works by Toots Zynsky: Bisbiglio, Settling Serena


Toots Zynsky and Clay Johanson, Elliott Brown Gallery, 17 November 2000
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