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$1,400
Licha Ochoa Nicholson
415
$1,500
Abi Spring
Ancient Textiles I, Earthen Series
Untitled
5½ x 25 x 8½ in Signed, 2013 Kiln-formed, slumped, sandblasted glass
15½ x 11¼ x 1½ in Signed, 2013 Fused glass, glass enamel
Licha Nicholson began creating with stained glass in 1983. Her move to Seattle from Kansas in 1998 continued her journey creating with glass, but in a different direction and technique. She studied at Pilchuck Glass School in 1999 and has had the opportunity to study under numerous glass artists in the Pacific Northwest. Presently, Nicholson resides in Marietta, Georgia and creates as a full-time glass artist in her home-based studio. Her studies have taken her throughout the US to study under additional master glass artists. Her work is exhibited by galleries and museums throughout the US.
From Vermont, a world of ice, snow, and clouds, Abi Spring finds herself most engaged when looking at the mysterious in nature: blue shadow patterns made by wind on the surface of a snow covered field, distant mountains barely visible through mist, fish swimming below a layer of black ice. She studied glass at the Australian National University, was a 2011 emerging artist in residence at Pilchuck Glass School and shows with Bullseye Gallery in Portland, Oregon.
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B ullseye Gallery bullseyegallery.com info@bullseyegallery.com abispring.com
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$1,400
Rick Nicholson and Janet Nicholson
416
$1,500
Kiki Smith
California Quail
Looking West I
10 x 10 x 6 in Signed, 2013 Freehand blown, hot sculpted glass, steel
12 x 8 in Signed, 2012 Ink, pencil, glitter on paper
Rick and Janet Nicholson have worked together as Nicholson Blown Glass in Auburn, California for 34 years. Rick first attended Pilchuck Glass School in 1981 as a teaching assistant for Dale Chihuly and Fritz Driesbach. He has been inspired by Dino Rosin and Karen Willenbrink-Johnsen to expand his blowing skills to include hot sculpting. In August 2013 he was honored to attend Pilchuck with Pino Signoretto. While Rick is the glass blower, Janet is the color and design part of their collaboration. Their work involves figurative sculpture, lighting and wall installations. Currently, they are working on Shorebirds and Quail.
Kiki Smith (b. 1954, Nuremberg, Germany) is a leading figure among artists addressing philosophical, social, and spiritual aspects of human nature, whose career spans more than three decades. Smith employs a wide-range of non-traditional materials ranging from hair and latex to beeswax and gold to a diverse body of work that includes painting, photography, bookmaking, sculpture, drawing, and printmaking. From Smith’s transgressive works of the mid-1980s that dealt with mortality, bodily dissolution and decay to her explorations of the natural world and domesticity, her work is layered with meaning and metaphor. Bio courtesy of the Pace Gallery.
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courtesy of T he Pace Gallery pacegallery.com info@pacegallery.com
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$1,400
Robert G. Burch
417
$1,500
Photo: Kerry Ryan McFate
Marzena Krzeminska-Baluch
Ruby Correlation
Lenses
22 x 10 x 14 in Signed, 2013 Hot sculpted glass
23 5⁄8 x 8¼ x 2¼ in Signed, 2011 Cast glass, print glass
While in high school, Robert Burch’s passions for the arts ignited, taking a special interest in glass blowing in addition to silver smithing, painting, drawing and photography. After traveling widely across the country, Burch has found himself at the mecca for glass arts, Seattle. He has been furthering his education and 3-D vocabulary at Pilchuck Glass School, and embedding himself in the community of artists in the Northwest.
Marzena Krzeminska-Baluch is the recipient of several grants from the Minister of Culture and National Heritage Grant and the Lower Silesia Artist Grant in Poland. She has taught in the glass department of the Academy of Art and Design in Wroclaw, Poland and was an emerging artist in residence at Pilchuck Glass School. Krzeminska-Baluch was a finalist in the Bullseye Glass 2012 E-merge competition and received an honorable mention for the TGK competition, All You Need is Glass, in Dusseldorf, Germany. She has been a teaching assistant and a scholarship recipient at Pilchuck Glass School.
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