Martin Lipofsky (American, b. 1938). Mold blown and hot worked glass from the Venini Series, 1972; ht. 12.5, wd. 11.5 in. Marvin Lipofsky was one of the six students that Studio Glass founder Harvey Littleton instructed under an independent study program for the University of Wisconsin-Madison in fall 1962 and spring 1963. He was a central figure in the dissemination of the American Studio Glass Movement, particularly in California through his tenure as an instructor at the University of California, Berkeley and the California College of Arts and Crafts. That gives him a place in glass history heaven but it is his restless, striving and sometime strident work that earns his place in the medium’s aesthetic canon. The late glass connoisseur Dan Klein wrote his forms, “are inspired by internal organs, intestines, breasts, stomachs, brains; their colorful, mottled, crumpled, broken shapes and expression of turbulence and restlessness.” Corning Museum of Glass curator Tina Oldknow wrote that his “non-objective vessels break apart and rearrange the blown glass mass while retaining the breathy, ephemeral quality that is one of the medium’s most intriguing characteristics.” Lastly James Yood, a contributor to Artforum hales the artist as "one of the finest colorists anywhere in contemporary art, an artist with a hair-trigger sensitivity to hue and tone, to the evocative suggestive of just that color breathing next to just this color, the ebb and flow of tone coursing in and through his pieces, now subtle, then exhilarating, here restrained, there chaotic, first muted and sedate, then so frenzied and interwoven as to offer a completely self-contained universe.” Exhibited: Marvin Lipofsky Venini Series, Yaw Gallery, Birmingham, MI, 1976. References: Tina Oldknow in “Foreword” in Baizerman, Suzanne (ed.). Marvin Lipofsky A Glass Odyssey. Oakland and Seattle: Oakland Museum of Art in association with the University of Washington Press, 2003. Klein, Dan. Artists in Glass. London: Mitchell Beazley, 2001. Yood, James. Marvin Lipofsky San Francisco: Micaëla Gallery, 2009. Condition: Excellent original condition.
Martin Lipofsky (American, b. 1938). Mold blown and hot worked glass from the Venini Series, 1972; ht. 12.5, wd. 11.5 in. Marvin Lipofsky was one of the six students that Studio Glass founder Harvey Littleton instructed under an independent study program for the University of Wisconsin-Madison in fall 1962 and spring 1963. He was a central figure in the dissemination of the American Studio Glass Movement, particularly in California through his tenure as an instructor at the University of California, Berkeley and the California College of Arts and Crafts. That gives him a place in glass history heaven but it is his restless, striving and sometime strident work that earns his place in the medium’s aesthetic canon. The late glass connoisseur Dan Klein wrote his forms, “are inspired by internal organs, intestines, breasts, stomachs, brains; their colorful, mottled, crumpled, broken shapes and expression of turbulence and restlessness.” Corning Museum of Glass curator Tina Oldknow wrote that his “non-objective vessels break apart and rearrange the blown glass mass while retaining the breathy, ephemeral quality that is one of the medium’s most intriguing characteristics.” Lastly James Yood, a contributor to Artforum hales the artist as "one of the finest colorists anywhere in contemporary art, an artist with a hair-trigger sensitivity to hue and tone, to the evocative suggestive of just that color breathing next to just this color, the ebb and flow of tone coursing in and through his pieces, now subtle, then exhilarating, here restrained, there chaotic, first muted and sedate, then so frenzied and interwoven as to offer a completely self-contained universe.” Exhibited: Marvin Lipofsky Venini Series, Yaw Gallery, Birmingham, MI, 1976. References: Tina Oldknow in “Foreword” in Baizerman, Suzanne (ed.). Marvin Lipofsky A Glass Odyssey. Oakland and Seattle: Oakland Museum of Art in association with the University of Washington Press, 2003. Klein, Dan. Artists in Glass. London: Mitchell Beazley, 2001. Yood, James. Marvin Lipofsky San Francisco: Micaëla Gallery, 2009. Condition: Excellent original condition.
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