Hello friends, I invite you stop by the ICA in San Jose and check out NextNewPaper, a new exhibition opening June 5th that features the work of 17 Bay Area artists creating innovative new works created with paper. I have one of my drawings from the "Embryo Series" included. Lots of exciting events happening throughout the show, hope to see you there! Cheers, Peter
Read MoreWe love to inspire and share ideas with artists. It's especially gratifying when the artist embraces our ideas so beautifully.
Read MoreHannah Kirkpatrick’s approach to glass comes from her interests in optics, light, process, and time. Through the use of light-sensitive materials such as glass, neon, and photography, she creates sculptures and performative works that aim to educate and generate curiosity in history, science, and process. Hannah received her BFA from the Rhode Island School of Design. She is represented by Glass Wheel Studio.
Read MoreWhat could be more apt than celebrating the wonderful career of Marvin Lipofsky with a special exhibition coordinated by Duane Reed for SOFA Chicago?
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Marvin Lipofsky, 77, San Francisco Bay Area teacher and sculptor who founded the University of California, Berkeley's glass program, died of natural causes at his home in Berkeley on Friday, January 15, 2016.
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Yesterday, we took a break from Christmas shopping to run over to the Anderson Collection on the Stanford Campus. The exhibition is excellent, of course, and revisiting Louise Nevelson's Sky Garden was, and always is, such a powerful experience.
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Since the weekend, my thoughts have been occupied by the earthquake suffered in Napa Valley. It’s easy to see why:
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After decades of scattershot compliance with California’s Resale Royalty Act, the Ninth Circuit’s decision Tuesday upholding the law’s requirement that fine-art sellers pay visual artists royalties on California sales is likely to undercut the secondary art market in the Golden State, experts say.
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Three collections of Ray Beldner’s work—“Counterfeit,” “101 Portraits,” and “Neon”—come together at Micaela Contemporary Projects this month.
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We love the annual extravaganza that is Art Basel Miami Beach. It is not just over the top, with estimated whole value of $3 billion (USD), it's a cultural love fest of unimaginable, and enormous, financial and global proportion.
Read MoreBritish artist John Burton traces his interest in glass art back to a hobby from two decades ago, dealing ceramics and glass antiques.
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We're reminded about Lorraine Peltz with a 2011 feature as Chicago's Artist of the Month.
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Beautiful, intelligent, lyrical, sensuous, and some times even grotesque.
Read MoreOur culture of multi-tasking has created an environment of distraction that, at times, dismisses the importance of the familiar.
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Missy Weimer does it again. Addressing intimate and personal contemporary issues - Google, affirmation, social interaction, and the past, her newest work, "You Got This 2," is an open edition of small engraved personal found objects.
Read MoreYears ago, it seems like another lifetime, I owned a small cafe in Berkeley. On an early Saturday morning, a group of friends gathered to order breakfast.
Read MoreDuring a career spanning half a century, Ileana Sonnabend (1914–2007) helped shape the course of postwar art in Europe and North America.
Read MoreMy Places of Green is a further exploration of the 2010 solo exhibition Into the Green at Sabbia Gallery from one of Australia’s most prominent glass artists Emma Varga.
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