Posts by Seven Bridges
Karen 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 MoreRonald N. Sherr
Ronald N. Sherr was an American artist and teacher (1952-2022), who began his art studies at the DuCret School of Art in New Jersey, then moved to New York City to study at the National Academy of Design. While Ron had an illustrious career in fine art portraiture, the exhibit at Seven Bridges features selected…
Read MoreClive Smith
Clive Smith is a highly trained British painter interested in how contemporary painting can speak to modern societal issues. Born in St. Albans, England in 1967, the artist has lived and worked in New York since 1988. Smith was educated as an artist first in the U.K. at Kingston Polytechnic and then at the Art…
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 MoreNathan Walsh
Nathan Walsh was born in 1972 and is a contemporary realist painter living and working in Wales, United Kingdom. Walsh is known for his large-scale paintings, some measuring up to nine feet in width. He travels abroad to large cities like New York to research his compositions, and then returns to his studio in Wales…
Read MoreDavid Willis
David Willis grew up outside of New York City. He earned a BA in Interdepartmental Field Studies from UC Berkeley with an emphasis on social change and a Minor in conservation and resources studies. He began working with glass in 1994. Drawing heavily from nature and taking a cross-disciplinary approach to the material, his work…
Read MoreWill Wilson
Will Wilson was born in 1957 in Baltimore, Maryland. He was educated at the Schuler School of Fine Arts in Baltimore from 1975 to 1979 and then at the New York Academy of Art in New York City from 1989 to 1990. His first solo show was at Johns Hopkins University. His work has been…
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…
Read MoreUdo Zembok
Udo Zembok was born in 1951 in Braunschweig, Germany and studied at Alanus University for Art and Social Sciences in Germany. While studying graphic art and painting, Zembok discovered what he terms “transparent colour, the colour of watercolours that gives the illusion of being light”. In the mid-1970’s, he experimented with kiln-formed glass in The…
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