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Home  Biographies Hawthorne, Chris |
Gallery Representation:
Trinity Gallery, Atlanta, Georgia
Education: Pilchuck Glass Center
1978: Flat Glass- Patrick Reyntiens
1979: Hot Glass- Joel Meyers & Dan Dailey
1984: Hot Glass- Marvin Lipofsky & Fritz Dreisbach
1987: Advanced Glass Blowing- Lino Tagliapietra
1991: Solid of-hand glass sculpture- Loredano Rosin
Recent Exhibitions:
1997: Edgewood Orchard Galleries- Fish Creek, WI
Robert Kidd Galleries- Birmingham, MI
Trinity Gallery- Atlanta, GA
1996: Philabaum Glass Gallery- Tuscon, AZ- Massicio-a Tribute to Loredano Rosin
Signature/Grohe Gallery- Boston, MA- Glass Art Society Conference Exhibition
Joyce Petter Gallery- Saugatuck, MI
1995: Hawthorne Gallery- Big Sur, CA- Permanent Exhbition
Reflections Gallery- EuropíART, Geneve, Switzerland
Joyce Petter Gallery- Saugatauk, MI
1994: M.C. Gallery- SOFA, Navy Pier, Chicago, IL
Gallery by the Lake- Solo Exhibition- Cowur dí Alene, ID
Pismo- Denver, CO
Sable V- Wimberly, TX
1993: Joan Hodgell Gallery- Solo Exhibition- Sarasota, FL
Coos Art Museum- Fine Art of Vessels- Three Person Exhibition, Coos Bay, OR
M.C. Gallery- New Art Forms- Navy Pier, Chicago, IL
Philabaum Glass Studios and Gallery- Fall Glass Review- Tuscon, AZ
Sable V- Wimberly, TX
Joyce Petter Gallery- Two Person Exhibition- Saugatauk, MI
Katie Gingrass Gallery- Shapes of Color- Madison, WI
1992: Christy Taylor Gallery- Solo Exhibition- Boca Raton, FL
M.C. Gallery- New Art Forms- Navy Pier, Chicago, IL
Joyce Petter Gallery- Saugatauk, MI
1991: Vesperman Glass Gallery- Atlanta, GA
Robert Kidd Galleries- Invitational Show- Birmingham, MI
Christy Taylor Gallery, Boca Raton, FL
1990: Maveety Gallery- Salishan, OR
Joyce Petter Gallery- Saugatuck, MI
American Craft at the Armory- New York, NY
D/Erlien Fine Art- Invitational Show- Birmingham, MI
Grohe Glass Gallery- Boston, MA
Christy Taylor Gallery- Boca Raton, FL
1989: Vesperman Glass Gallery- Atlanta, GA
MC Gallery, Minneapolis, MN
Robert Kidd Galleries- National Glass Invitational Exhibition- Detroit, MI
Craftsmanís Gallery- Scarsdale, NY
Highlight Gallery- Mendocino, CA
Selected Collections:
Museum of Fine Art- Boston, MA
Muskegon Museum of Art
Coos Art Museum
Dow Chemical
UAW/ Chrysler Corporation
McDonaldís Corporation
Motorola
NWLI- Northwest Life Insurance
Prudential Securities
Old Kent Bank- Grand Rapids, MI
Heller Armand
Renaissance Vineyards
Penta Hotels
Trammel Crowe
St. Paul Companies
PeatMarwick
Chris Hawthorne is recognized throughout the nation for his large, colorful, yet loosely handled blown glass pieces. His casually elegant forms exemplify his skill with this plastic medium at the highest quality in contemporary crafts. However, it is the colors possible in glass that most seem to fascinate Hawthorne. To better showcase his mastery of the numerous metallic oxides that blend together to make up his palette, he has flattened his vertical forms, creating sides like stretched glass canvases. Also he has blown out large open glass bowls which blend in equal proportions the concerns of the sculptor and the painter. In each work it is this perfect harmony of color and form that distinguishes his vessels.
Introductory Statement from "The Fine Art of Vessels- Glass, Clay, Wood"
Chris Hawthorne, Patrick Horsley, Hugh McKay
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