Archive for November 2023
Paul Day
Paul Day was born in 1967 in Horsham, England. Upon finishing his education at Cheltenham School of Art, Day began working professionally aided by a grant from the Prince of Wales Business Youth Trust. Day has spent more than twenty years developing a highly personal approach to figurative sculpture using high-relief, an art form that…
Read MorePetr Hora
Petr Hora was born in 1949 in the Czech Republic. Hora began his studies in 1965 at the Applied College of Glassmaking in Zelezny Brod. Hora’s work is remarkably powerful. He cuts into the surface deeply using a diamond disc saw, creating a subtle interaction of light on the form. The overall refined quality of…
Read MoreKaren LaMonte
Karen LaMonte was born in 1967 in New York City. She received her BFA from the Rhode Island School of Design in 1990 and continued her studies with a Fulbright Grant which sent her to the Academy of Art, Architecture, and Design in Prague, The Czech Republic. She had her first solo show in Chicago,…
Read MoreLorenzo Quinn
Lorenzo Quinn was born in 1966 in Rome, Italy and lives in Barcelona, Spain. He is an Italian sculptor and former actor and the son of actor Anthony Quinn. Quinn’s childhood was split between Italy and the United States. His father had a profound influence on him. He is best known for expressive recreations of…
Read MoreKaren Shapiro
Karen Shapiro was born in 1947 and was raised in Arizona where she trained as an artist. She once painted cartoon cells at Hanna Barbera and also did package design. Using the American raku firing technique, Shapiro takes everyday objects based on commercial products or domestic items dating from the 1930s to the present time,…
Read MoreLino Tagliapietra
Lino Tagliapietra was born in 1934 in Murano, Italy. Tagliapietra was described by Dale Chihuly as “perhaps the world’s greatest living glassblower.” As a boy he was apprenticed to master glassmaker Archimede Seguso. A decade later Tagliapietra had himself achieved the rank of maestro. For decades he executed glass designs with technical virtuosity. An award…
Read MoreFrantisek Vizner
Frantisek Vizner was born in 1936 in Czechoslovakia. He is well known and highly respected worldwide for his incredible innovative and powerful glass creations. Vizner was trained at the famous glassmaking schools in Novy Bor and Zelezny Brod. He graduated from the Academy of Applied Arts in Prague in 1962. He dedicated his career to…
Read MorePeter Woytuk
Peter Woytuk was born in 1958 in St. Paul, Minnesota. The son of an architect and a textile artist, he received his BA from Kenyon College in Ohio in 1980, focusing on photography. He was introduced to sculpture through an apprenticeship in Connecticut in the early 1980s. Woytuk divides his time between his home in…
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