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Bent Log
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Flattened Cone
Katherine Gray
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Shroom 1
Katherine Gray
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Shroom 2
Katherine Gray
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Shroom 3
Katherine Gray
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UFO 2
Katherine Gray
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Asterisk 2317
Katherine Gray
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Black Iridescent Swoopy Bowl 5
Katherine Gray
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Black Iridescent Swoopy Bowl 7
Katherine Gray
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IBE 2316
Katherine Gray
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Iridescent Incalmo Entity 2315
Katherine Gray
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Space Wave 1000
Katherine Gray
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Space Wave 1005 – Light Purple
Katherine Gray
Katherine Gray
Katherine Gray is an American glass designer who creates fluid, dreamlike objects with her beloved medium. Drawing on the extensive lineage of fine glassblowing whilst infusing it with her personal imprimatur, Gray’s collections including vases, candelabras and goblets. According to her leitmotif of ‘disappearance’ many of her pieces – both functional and non-functional - are designed to fit inside one another, a play on the material’s intrinsic transparent quality.
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Born in 1965, Katherine Gray attended the Rhode Island School of Design and the Ontario College of Art, in Toronto, Canada. A huge proponent of handiwork and physically engaging in the arts, one of Gray’s most prominent artwork pieces is called “Forest Glass,” on display at the Corning Museum of Glass. While she is a skilled glassblower, Katherine Gray glass employs secondhand glasses from thrift stores and online auction sites – a panorama of green, brown, and clear colored bottles, beakers, and cups. Exploring creation, destruction and ecology, these found objects were arranged on clear shelves into the shape and color of trees to illustrate the versatility and timeless appeal of glass works.
Katherine Gray glass is highly elemental. Seminal works and collections by Gray include “Fire,” manifest impressions of heat; “Water” combining the artistic essence of water and ice; and lastly, “Air”, which highlights the intrinsically sightless nature of glass. Like all of Gray’s work, each piece is grounded in a design philosophy that draws on nature, the corporeal and organic phenomenon. Gray’s work is on display in the Museum of American Glass, and the Tacoma Museum of Glass in addition to the Corning Museum of Glass. She has been nominated for the Louis Comfort Tiffany Foundation Award, and has garnered many accolades, including the Award of Merit from the Bellevue Art Museum in Washington.
Katherine Gray remains active in academia as an instructor at Rhode Island School of Design and an assistant professor at California State University in San Bernadino, California. Recent projects include acting as curator of “Glass: A Juried Art Show” at Minnetrista Art Center, Muncie, IN, participating in a group exhibition titled “California Handmade: State of the Arts” in Rancho Cucamonga, CA, and presenting solo exhibitions “This Makes Me Think of That” at the Heller Gallery, in New York, NY, and “A Rainbow Like You” at the Robert and Frances Fullerton Museum of Art in San Bernardino, California.
Gray’s work celebrates and elevates a prosaic material and forces us to appreciate it anew. “I have invested a good part of my artistic livelihood trying to perfect working with it, to make visible the invisible,” Gray has said. “I want my work to represent the inequity that exists between sublime beauty and manufacturing extravagance.”
Katherine Gray glass is highly elemental. Seminal works and collections by Gray include “Fire,” manifest impressions of heat; “Water” combining the artistic essence of water and ice; and lastly, “Air”, which highlights the intrinsically sightless nature of glass. Like all of Gray’s work, each piece is grounded in a design philosophy that draws on nature, the corporeal and organic phenomenon. Gray’s work is on display in the Museum of American Glass, and the Tacoma Museum of Glass in addition to the Corning Museum of Glass. She has been nominated for the Louis Comfort Tiffany Foundation Award, and has garnered many accolades, including the Award of Merit from the Bellevue Art Museum in Washington.
Katherine Gray remains active in academia as an instructor at Rhode Island School of Design and an assistant professor at California State University in San Bernadino, California. Recent projects include acting as curator of “Glass: A Juried Art Show” at Minnetrista Art Center, Muncie, IN, participating in a group exhibition titled “California Handmade: State of the Arts” in Rancho Cucamonga, CA, and presenting solo exhibitions “This Makes Me Think of That” at the Heller Gallery, in New York, NY, and “A Rainbow Like You” at the Robert and Frances Fullerton Museum of Art in San Bernardino, California.
Gray’s work celebrates and elevates a prosaic material and forces us to appreciate it anew. “I have invested a good part of my artistic livelihood trying to perfect working with it, to make visible the invisible,” Gray has said. “I want my work to represent the inequity that exists between sublime beauty and manufacturing extravagance.”
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Education
MFA – Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, RI
AOCA, Ontaro College of Art, Toronto, Canada
Exhibitions
2015 “California Handmade: State of the Arts” – Maloof Foundation, Rancho Cucamonga, CA
2015 “This Makes Me Think of That” – Heller Gallery, New York, NY
2015 “A Rainbow Like You” – Robert and Frances Fullerton Museum of Art, San Bernardino, CA
2013 “A Tree Grows” – Robert Lehman Gallery/UrbanGlass, Brooklyn, NY
2013 “Dialogue With the Baroque” – Galerie Handwerk/Neue Schloss Schleissheim, Munich, DE
2013 “Ocean” – Glasmuseet Ebeltoft, Ebeltoft, Denmark
2013 “Wheaton Glass: The Art of the Fellowship” – Museum of American Glass, Millville, NJ
2012 “Good Enough to Eat” – Craft in America Study Center, Los Angeles, CA
2012 “Petits Tableaux, Winston” – Wachter Gallery, Seattle, WA
2012 “The Janet and Janet Show Pop-up Gallery” – For Your Art, Los Angeles, CA
2012 Museum of Temporary Art, See Line Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
2012 “Fifty By Fifty” – Muskegon Museum of Art, Muskegon, MI
2012 “Fusion” – Oklahoma City Museum of Art, OK
2012 “G8” – Winston-Wachter Gallery, Seattle, WA
2011 “Adrift In A Glass Bottom Boat” (w/ Eric Huebsch) – Raid Projects, Los Angeles, CA
2011 “Nonchalants” – Post Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
2011 “Diamond Dust” – See Line Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
2011 “Playtime” – See Line Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
2010 “Design/Process” – OBJCT Gallery, Claremont, CA
2010 “Smoke and Mirrors” – Smokestack Gallery, Canberra, Australia
2010 Alexys Schwartz Projects, Culver City, CA
2009 “It’s A Very Deadly Weapon To Know What You’re Doing” – Acuna- Hansen Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
2009 “Tenuous Tenacity” – Glazen Huis, Lommel, Belgium
2009 “Garden of Delights” – Winston Wachter Gallery, Seattle, WA
2009 “Art of Glass 2: Contemporary Glass Among The Classics” – Chrysler Museum, Norfolk, VA
2008 “Summer Guests” – Acuna-Hansen Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
2007 “All-In” – Torrance Art Museum, Torrance, CA
2007 “Here Comes That Sinking Feeling” – RV Fullerton Museum, San Bernardino, CA
2006-07 Bombay Sapphire Prize Exhibition toured England and Europe
2005 “Nouvelle Nuptials” – San Francisco Museum of Craft + Design, CA
2002 “Fruits Of Idleness” – Elliott Brown Gallery, Seattle, WA
Teaching, Curatorial, and Related Experiences
2012 Curator, “Glass: A Juried Art Show”, Minnetrista Art Center, Muncie, IN
2012-present Member, Board of Trustees, Haystack School of Crafts, Deer Isle, ME
2011-present Associate Professor, California State University San Bernardino, CA
2007-2011 Assistant Professor, California State University San Bernardino, CA
2001-2012 Member, Board of Trustees, Pilchuck Glass School, Stanwood, WA
2009 Designer/Maker of Sponsor Gifts, Glazen Huis, Lommel, Belgium
2009 Curator, “Blown!”, Santa Ana College Art Gallery, Santa Ana, CA
2002-2007 Lecturer, California State University San Bernardino, CA
2000-2001 Visiting Assistant Professor, University of Illinois Urbana- Champaign, Il
2000 “Err” – Elliott Brown Gallery, Seattle, WA
1994-1996 Instructor, Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, RI
Selected Scholarships, Residences, and Awards
2009, 2013 Nominated for Louis Comfort Tiffany Foundation Award
2012 ARC Completion Grant, Center for Cultural Innovation, Los Angeles, CA
2011, 2014 Summer Research Fellowship, CSU San Bernardino
2011, 2014 Outstanding Faculty in Professional Development, College of Arts and Letters, CSUSB
2001, 2008 Mini-Grant, Office of Academic Research, CSUSB
2002 Brodie Faculty Development Grant, University of Illinois
1998 Award of Merit, Bellevue Art Museum