034 - Jen Elek
Jack 18 x 24 x 24 inches Signed - 2009 Blown glass
031 - Klaus Moje
Untitled 8, 1993 #6 17.5 X 17.38 X 2.13 inches Signed - 1993 Kiln-formed, cold-worked glass
$16,000 Few artists have had such a broad and clear impact on the development of a medium as Klaus Moje has had on kiln-formed glass. In 1983, Moje founded what would become Australia’s premier center for talent in glass art: the Glass Workshop at the Canberra School of Art, Australian National University. Since then, Moje has received the Rakow Commission from Corning Museum of Glass, along with Lifetime Achievement Awards from UrbanGlass and the Glass Art Society. His work is represented in dozens of public collections in Europe, Australia, Japan and the United States. Moje’s art has been the subject of major museum retrospectives that have toured Germany, Australia and the United States in 1995, 2008 and 2009. Bullseye Gallery: gallery@bullseyegallery.com www.bullseyegallery.com
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032 - Motohide Takagi
night sky 3 x 14 x 11 inches Signed - 2010 Cut, blown glass, enamel paint
$3,000 Motohide Takagi was born in Nagoya, Japan. He works at Utatsuyama Craft Workshop in Kanazawa, Japan. Motohide Takagi: glamourousglass0824@gmail.com
033 - Yuki Uchimura
Exist “time” 13.7 x 6.9 x 6.9 inches Signed - 2007 Kiln-cast glass
$3,500 Yuki graduated from Tokyo Glass Art Institute in 1983. He taught at Pilchuck Glass School, Urban Glass Studio in New York, Centro Studio Ventro in Venice and Rochester Institute of Technology. He currently serves as the associate professor at Osaka University of Art. His work can be found in the collections of Corning Museum of Glass, Sao Paulo Museum, and Lausanne Decorative Museum. Yuki Uchimura: yuki-glass-yuki@jcom.home.ne.jp
$4,000
036 - Mark Zirpel
Jen Elek combines soft forms, humor and innovative processes to create landscapes of color and light, primarily using handblown glass, neon and steel as her mediums. Elek graduated with a B.F.A. degree in 1994 from the School of Art and Design at Alfred University. In 1995 she moved to Seattle where she has had the opportunity to work with many notable artists. Since 2001, she has been a member of Lino Tagliapietra’s glassblowing team. Elek exhibits and teaches glassblowing classes internationally. Her work was recently featured in the group show Convergence Zone at Bellevue Arts Museum. She maintains a studio in south Seattle with her husband and fellow artist, Jeremy Bert.
12 x 23.5 x .125 inches Signed - 2011 Photo-sandblast, enamels, glass
Traver Gallery: traver@traverygallery.com www.travergallery.com
Odonata
$4,000
035 - Jennifer Umphress
Anomaly 31 x 21 x 21 inches Signed - 2011 Flame-worked glass
$4,200
Mark Zirpel began working at Pilchuck Glass School in the summer of 1994 as the print shop coordinator. He has since worked as coldshop coordinator, a brief stint in the store, as an emerging artist in residence (EAIR), as a coordinator for the EAIR program, as a professional artist in residence (PAIR) and twice as faculty. He has served on the board of trustees of Pilchuck Glass School since 2007. In 2008 Mark Zirpel was hired by the University of Washington as the Dale Chihuly Endowed Chair of Glass, charged with introducing the material of glass into their three dimensional program. Zirpel holds a B.F.A. degree from the University of Alaska in drawing and a M.F.A. degree from the San Francisco Art Institute in printmaking. Mark Zirpel: mzirpel@u.washington.edu
Jennifer Umphress was born and raised in California, and in 1991 after visiting Hawaii and falling in love with its beauty it became her home. She began her career in glass in 2000 working and apprenticing in a small studio retail shop in the Islands. Umphress expanded her knowledge by attending Sundance Art Center in Santa Cruz, California, and studying traditional concepts of glass, in Murano, Italy, under Cesare Toffolo. Since then she has had the opportunity to take workshops from Robert Mickelsen, Janis Miltenberger and Richard LaLonde. In 2006 she relocated to Kingston, Washington, hoping that the Northwest will provide as much influence for her as Hawaii has. Umphress’ work is constantly changing and evolving, but she still draws her biggest influence from the islands and ocean that surrounded her for so long. Vetri International Glass: vetri@vetriglass.com www.vetriglass.com
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