Touch screens. In episode 1, the challenge had each contestant taking a hard look in the mirror. Katherine Gray was educated at the Ontario College of Art and the Rhode Island School of Design. It is often flawlessly clear and colourless, hence invisible in that regard, but also it can be so ubiquitous and banal that it does not register in our psyches either. Hotworked glass, 24 x 55 inches, Courtesy of the artist. What percentage do you expect to fall or crack in your work?Oh gosh, a high percentage. Her practice is focused on the material qualities of glass itself: its ability to be psychologically absent and physically invisible in its quotidian, scientific and technological use, but also to be the substance of the sublime. “A Rainbow Like You” by Katherine Gray, 2015. Under the guise of wanting to make Venice safe from all the glass furnaces, they moved all the glass makers to an island called Murano, and that’s still a glass making island today. Beautiful Thinker: Katherine Gray, glass artist and mentor on Netflix’s Blown Away, on glass blowing’s mystical history and using glass art to challenge gender stereotypes. There is a bit of implicit bias against craft materials in the art world. 1965 Katherine Gray (born 1965) is a Canadian glass artist and professor of art at California State University, San Bernardino. A lot can go wrong at any time. She’s a renowned glass artist and is known for creating vases, candelabras, goblets, and chandeliers. So I kind of associate that idea with enlightenment. Katherine Gray is a Los Angeles-based glass artist whose work ranges from blown glass to elaborate installations of found glass. Katherine Gray: (Being) in a Hotshop, which provides visitors with an introduction to glassmaking that involves multiple senses and experiences, will conclude Sunday, May 12, 2019.The exhibition is located in Gallery 18 at the Toledo Museum of Art and is free to the public. I know as a kid, we had Corning, like Pyrex mixing bowls in the kitchen that my mom would use, a measuring cup and stuff like that. Katherine Gray will visit TMA to discuss her work in person and participate in a glassblowing demonstration in the Glass Pavilion on Feb. 9, 2019. Eunoia is the shortest word in the English language that contains all five vowels. Some of your work is in the Corning Museum of Glass. Arlington National Cemetery, in Arlington, Virginia is a military cemetery in the United States, established during the American Civil War on the grounds of Arlington House, formerly the estate of the family of Robert E. Lee's wife Mary Anna (Custis) Lee, a descendant of Martha Washington. Support. . It’s something that I think we take for granted. Gray will be a visiting artist at the Museum of Glass in Tacoma July 17-20. I go back and forth, but I’m probably still better known for sculptural work. You turned functional glass objects into trees and sculptures, but you also repurposed things to make a chandelier. Medium is an open platform where 170 million readers come to find insightful and dynamic thinking. That’s the thing that gets drummed out of us as we grow up. The drama is just going to be in the glass blowing.” They assuaged my fears, and I think they made a great show. Last question. In our current exhibition, Radiant Mirage, Katherine Gray turns her considerable glass-making skills to creating objects that serve two purposes: to bring beauty into a dire moment in the world, and to express her frustration over the loss of our collective sense of security and well-being. The glass community in particular was really nervous because (on) a lot of those reality shows, people are nasty and they scream at each other and there’s a villain and all that. There’s definitely some great artists that use craft materials and great craftspeople that make amazing art. There’s a few smells you experience when you’re blowing glass that are really particular. The idea of the word “wonder” was a big inspiration — the state of awe and wonder about the world is something as an artist you want to maintain and aspire to. Beautiful thinking can be a process, a moment, or an action that changes how we perceive the world in the biggest, or smallest, of ways. But where exactly is Blown Away filmed? At the time, the piece I was making was kind of referring to transparency in the political sphere, and how it’s something we just assume is there until it’s not. KATHERINE GRAY: CATALOGue: RADIANT MIRAGE: MAY 15 - 2020, katherine gray: PRESS RELEASE: RADIANT MIRAGE. Browse the most recent Virginia obituaries and condolences. In the case of Katherine’s work, we see how she is attracted to the polarities of glass, how it’s clear and opaque, how it can be fine art in some forms and invisible in others, and how even in craft arts, which tend to be viewed as more feminine, glass blowing is typically male-dominated. And in this instance they had six hours or something. The idea was that you were kind of eavesdropping on this intimate conversation between the tools and the material. Presented by Heller Gallery. Forest Glass, Katherine Gray, United States, Los Angeles, CA, 2009 (2010.4.49) Half the fun with glass is trying to discover what message the artist meant to convey, if any, with their piece and then trying to decide what you see when looking at the piece. As you get better and more used to it, that happens less and less. I think I maybe made one light and one table. Hosted by YouTube star Nick Uhas and renowned glass artist Katherine Gray, Blown Away gives audiences an inside look into the many complicated techniques of blowing glass. Partnerships. With comprehensive contact information, including cell phone numbers, for over 275 million people nationwide, and Whitepages SmartCheck, the fast, comprehensive background check compiled from criminal and other records from all 50 states.Landlords use Whitepages TenantCheck, which is … When I was making a little drinking glass, you would hear the sound of these tools interacting with the glass, like cutting through it or tapping on it. You hired a perfumer to create a scent for your exhibition “This Makes Me Think of That.” What role do the senses play in your work?I turned 50 a few years ago, and started thinking about the day when I wouldn’t be blowing glass anymore. But still, even the best glass blowers can still have a bad day and everything ends up on the floor. I was super psyched that it was as popular as it was. Five years ago or so, they opened a giant new wing to display contemporary glass art. What is it about glass making that has this shroud around it?Some of those secrets and techniques are hard-won and take a lot to figure out and discover, and some of that still exists in the glass world in Venice. Katherine Gray Pink Dimple, 2019 blown glass/iridescent coating 10 ½... x 10 ½ x 4 inches # Repost Heller Gallery ・・・ Iridescence, often associated with ancient glass, really only became available to glass-makers as a controlled process in the late 19th & early 20th century. Now based in Los Angeles, Katherine Gray elevated her interest in glass as a medium to create fluid, dreamlike objects and has dedicated decades to the art of fine glassblowing. Then, Katherine went on to pursue a Master’s in Fine Arts from Rhode Island School of Design. Talk a little bit about the show on Netflix, Blown Away, and how that happened.A lot of us in the glass world were really skeptical and surprised when this production company reached out saying they wanted to film this competitive glass blowing show. I know you’ve said the format of the show was a little challenging because glass blowing can take a long time.Yeah, yeah. So you said it correctly. Katherine Gray (born 1965) is a Canadian glass artist and professor of art at California State University, San Bernardino. It crossed my mind that it would be cool to smell the smell again. And then under UV lights, the uranium fluoresces. I saw a demonstration video of yours and the process seems super athletic and highly dangerous — at any moment the piece could break. $2,500 - 5,000. Her work includes vases, candelabras, and goblets, and some of her pieces are designed to fit inside each other. Katherine Gray employs the stealth qualities of glass and the history of glassblowing to comment on larger issues she is passionate about: the environment, society and community. It makes you really appreciate when something works out well. And so that’s a bit enigmatic I think because most craft materials often get associated with women’s work. Available for sale from Heller Gallery, Katherine Gray, BACK AND FORTH (in situ) (2015-2018), Glass/mdf board/sound Her solo show, "Katherine Gray: As Clear as the Experience," will open at the Craft and Folk Art Museum in Los Angeles in May 2018. The glass maker skills were highly prized. They’ve got an amazing science wing that talks about the role of glass and optics and telescopes and stuff. She was elected into the College of Fellows in 2020. The common thread is her use of iridescence, an optical phenomenon seen in nature and inspired by unearthed ancient glass. I use a material that we don’t generally ‘see’: glass. Speaking to judge Katherine Gray… The piece is part of the artist’s show at the Craft and Folk Art Museum. Get the iOS app. I’m trying to bridge this gap between high and low brow pursuits. That’s one of the really unique characteristics about it. She’s an artist, a professor and the head resident evaluator on Netflix’s series, “Blown Away.”, I’m fascinated with what you’ve said about playing with the polarities of glass. I made a sound piece by attaching little contact mics to some of the glass blowing tools — tweezers, things that look like scissors, stuff like that. This blog is a collection of just that, beautiful thinking from the worlds of art, advertising and culture. A California glass artist to know, along with Anthony Bianco, Ethan Stern and Mark Pavlovits, according to C magazine, the magazine of California style and culture, in the March 2019 issue. I had thought I wanted to design lighting and furniture, and so I thought taking a glass course would be helpful for that. So I took the course, and I loved it, and I kept taking it. At the time of the Renaissance, followed by the Enlightenment of culture and society and big advances in the sciences, they came to appreciate the colorlessness and clearness. Glass is certainly a material that’s associated with being transparent. That’s a whole other factor. Principal, Executive Creative Director, Young & Laramore. Her installation Forest Glass consists of three structures, or “trees,” made of found drinking glasses stacked on plexiglass shelves with steel supports. Whether you’re Pat Brown , the founder of Impossible Foods who’s solving one of the world’s biggest environmental problems, or Katherine Gray, an artist who creates conceptual works of art from blowing glass, they’re both manifestations of beautiful thinking. But they said, “No no no, we don’t want it to be like that. Like natural phenomena that are caused by the refraction of light, Gray’s Entities and Tubes emphasize the elusiveness and shiftiness of iridized objects - their psychedelic high and deceptive low - and project an ephemeral shape and play of color our eye does not fully grasp. Katherine Gray is widely respected as a glassblower and artist who makes functional and nonfunctional vessels and sculpture. Most of the time when people are conceptualizing to fabricating to finishing an actual artwork takes days, weeks, months, sometimes years. Glenn Gray Jennifer Mackrous Executive Assistant Angela Durrett Sr. Director Total Rewards Scott Seal Director Compensation Terri Stevens Director Benefits Administration Rebecca Gristina Manager ,Wellness Victor Tringali Sr. Analyst Health System Compensation McLean Schoonover Analyst Health System Compensation Jacob Henderson I’m trying to play off of a lot of polarities there between usage of material and the sphere it exists in, who makes it, who uses it, who values it, and trying to point out some of the inequalities. Season one winner Deborah Czeresko (center, with judge Katherine Gray and host Nick Uhas) returns as a guest judge this season. But students have to learn this stuff. When you’re teaching at CalState, what are some of the things you’re teaching, and what sort of things are you learning from your students?I always find the students really inspiring because they don’t know what you can and can’t do yet. I loved the pieces in your series about Wonder Bread. The series launches July 12. What was the thinking behind that?I was making these stylized hearths and campfires, thinking about the warmth you feel when you’re sitting around a fire and how warm you are in the hot shop when you’re blowing glass. Her work ranges from blown glass sculptures to assembled installations of found glass. Join Facebook to connect with Katherine Gray and others you may know. 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. PINK DIMPLE, 2019. Katherine Gray-As Clear as the Experience, installation view, 2018 Katherine Gray: As Clear as the Experience, installation view, 2018. Tell me a little about the concept behind that.I want to elevate domestic glassware. Gray is a Professor at California State University, San Bernardino. How would you define beautiful thinking?I think it’s inspired thinking. To artist Katherine Gray, glass is a material of both otherworldly perfection and of mundane familiarity. Katherine Gray’s Iridescent Entity series pays contemporary tribute to this shimmering, chromatic phenomenon. Katherine Gray employs the stealth qualities of glass and the history of glassblowing to comment on larger issues she is passionate about: the environment, society and community. So just under regular light, it looks like clear frosted glass or colorless. The 26,000-square-foot contemporary gallery is part of the Contemporary Art + Design Wing, designed by architect Thomas Phifer and Partners, and opened in 2015. And to me, the time where you’re just about to fall asleep, or if you do yoga, and you’re coming into corpse pose at the end and your mind is just emptied out, and all this stuff can percolate and cross-pollinate. It means beautiful thinking. The brand associated with vintage glassware is invested in promoting the industrial and creative uses for glass, including screens on the iPhone. Katherine Gray: (Being) in a Hotshop is presented by O-I with additional support from the Ohio Arts Council and 2019 Exhibition Program Sponsor ProMedica. What you figured out, you kind of kept to yourself, and that was your cash cow. The Los Angeles Times praised Gray’s works for ‘emphasizing the broad potential of the medium.’. The Art + Design wing at the Corning Museum of Glass in Corning, New York. To artist Katherine Gray, glass is a material of both otherworldly perfection and of mundane familiarity. Explore, If you have a story to tell, knowledge to share, or a perspective to offer — welcome home. Instagram Video ... people think I make pipes and bongs,” says Katherine Gray with a laugh. Her work has been exhibited most recently at the Heller Gallery in New York City, Glasmuseet Ebeltoft in Denmark, Urban Glass in New York, and Galerie Handwerk in Munich. But they call the red, yellow and blue dots “wonder balloons” in their graphic identity and when I think of balloons, I think of blowing glass. And as it was encased in the glass, that moisture started to evaporate and expand and cause the glass to bubble out from the central core. With her work, Gray asks her viewers to consider the notion of disappearance as glass can be so ubiquitous that it is often not even noticed. What got you into glass?When I was an undergrad at art school in Toronto, I wandered into the glass studio at my school. Distractify got to spend an afternoon learning to blow glass with Katherine and Nick after the first season aired — here's what we learned about the series! They’d learn craft, nuance and the visceral power of image, color, form and texture. That is my favorite thinking time because it’s always productive, but always surprising. The American Craft Council has announced its 2020 ACC Award winners.Among the recipients are renowned glass artists Joyce Scott, who takes home the highly coveted Gold Medal for Consummate Craftsmanship prize, and Katherine Gray, who was accepted into the ACC College of Fellows.The Gold Medal is the most prestigious award given by the council acknowledging a lifetime of achievements. While the glass blowers are working, I’ll walk around and talk to them individually, kind of like a Tim Gunn character from Project Runway.”. She is currently appearing as the Resident Evaluator on Season 1 and the upcoming Season 2 of Netflix’s reality TV show Blown Away. . It’s definitely not as bad as it once was, but was pretty ingrained for a long, long time. Whitepages is the authority in people search, established in 1997. The contestants were amazing. They had to create deeply personal pieces based on how they see themselves. Born in 1965, Katherine Gray attended the Rhode Island School of Design and the Ontario College of Art, in Toronto, Canada. Resources. Here, expert and undiscovered voices alike dive into the heart of any topic and bring new ideas to the surface. Gray's immersive work draws on rich traditions of glass blowing, fearless experimentation, and a fascination with glass as both a visual and experiential encounter. The contemporary galleries in the new wing are the world’s largest space dedicated to the display of contemporary art and design in glass. So then you see the bright orange and green and purple, whatever the tints of uranium glass in there. So they always have amazing ideas, and sometimes it’s kind of heartbreaking when you know what’s doomed for failure. And then we realize, “Oh wait a minute, what was that? The idea that glass was clear and colorless really only came to be valued during the Renaissance and afterwards. Katherine received her undergraduate degree from Ontario College of Art in Toronto, and her MFA from Rhode Island School of Design in Providence, RI. BEST IN SHOW: We found Elliot from Blown Away on Instagram; Nao Yamamoto on Blown Away . It’s not going to be very satisfying if you just tell them, “No, that’s not going to work.” They need to see it themselves. Learn more, Follow the writers, publications, and topics that matter to you, and you’ll see them on your homepage and in your inbox. I had no idea that a brand known for casserole dishes was elevating glass as an artform. Heller Gallery. Katherine Gray, Cause and Effect II (detail), 2017. Katherine doesn’t make pretty objects, she gives us a lens to view the world through the magical lens of glass. But I wouldn’t say it’s hard and fast. So there is some overlap there, but glass is a bit more complicated because it is pretty traditionally a craft material, but one that’s been traditionally male-dominated. Glassblower and artist Katherine Gray is behind this beautiful installation called Forest Glass that consists of three trees made from 2,000 found drinking glasses. And that’s not really what the community is about. The theory is that one time they were doing that and the clay wasn’t sufficiently dry. New York. Businesses would benefit from studying the arts. Did glassblowing start in Italy during the Renaissance?There’s apocryphal stories about how glassblowing actually was discovered. Katherine Gray serves as the resident evaluator on Blown Away. Was part of your aim to elevate junky pop culture?Yeah, I was definitely trying to elevate something that seems lowbrow. It’s attributed to the Romans trying to cover clay with a hot glass, making what’s called a core formed vessel — casing spongy clay core with glass and digging the clay out afterwards. Heller Gallery. In that experimentation is where some amazing things happen. You’ve said before, “I see many more analogies within glass, it’s incarnations, its histories, its properties, that have relevance to larger issues in the world.” Can you expand on that?On a more basic level, it’s the idea of transparency. Katherine Gray: As Clear as the Experience, installation view, 2018. Drawing the trial, Mort Drucker (1929–2020): One of the All-Time Cartooning Greats. Where did it go?”. Her works are held in the permanent collections of public institutions including the Toledo Museum of Art, Toledo, OH; Corning Museum of Glass, Corning, NY; Museum of American Glass, Wheaton, NJ; the Museum of Glass, Tacoma, WA, New Mexico Museum of Art, Santa Fe, NM, and Toyama City Institute of Glass Art, Toyama, Japan. Katherine received her undergraduate degree from Ontario College of Art in Toronto, and her MFA from Rhode Island School of Design in Providence, RI. Is this recent?That’s been their mission for a long time. Photo: Netflix “Glass as … Katherine Gray, CSUSB art professor, serves as the resident judge on the glassblowing competition show “Blown Away” on Netflix. I’ve read that the formulas for glass making used to be kept a secret, and the penalty was death. Stacked on Plexiglas shelves, the glasses are arranged by color to form the simplified version of trees – … That’s a nice tension.Yeah. About us. Then it started to occur to me that I could use scent and sounds and some other sensations to create the feeling of being in a hot shop for people who would never have that experience. About Jobs Press Contact. Eunoia is the shortest word in the English language that…. With her work, Gray asks her viewers to consider the notion of disappearance as glass can be so ubiquitous that it is often not even noticed. Before that, glass was made to look like other materials, like different kinds of rock. Celebrate and remember the lives we have lost in Virginia. So a big part of their company is the industrial application of glass. Open Source Blog The Art Genome Project Education.