FLO PERKINS

B I O G R A P H Y


 
BORN:
1951, BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS, USA
Currently Resides in Santa Fe, New Mexico

 

EDUCATIONAL EXPERIENCE
1981 M.F.A. University of California, Los Angeles, CA.
1974 B.F.A. Philadelphia College of Art, Philadelphia, PA.
MUSEUM/PUBLIC COLLECTIONS
The Albuquerque Museum, NM
Aladdin Resort and Casino, NV
The Boston Athenaeum Library, Boston, MA
The Corning Museum of Glass, Corning, NY
Huntington Museum, Huntington, WV
Los Angeles County Museum of Art, CA
Microsoft Corporation, WA
Mobile Museum of Art, Mobile, AL
Museo Municipal de Arte en Vidrio de Alcorcon, Madrid, Spain
The Norton Museum, Palm Beach, FL
Office of Cultural Affairs, the State of New Mexico
Prescott Collection, Pacific First Centre, Seattle, WA
Racine Art Museum, Racine, WI
Rockwell Museum, Corning NY
The Sheraton Hotel Collection, Seattle, WA
Teleflora Corporation, LA
Private collections upon request.
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2005    Pilchuck Glass School in the 7"s, Bellevue Art Museum, Bellevue,W
"Alcove Show", Addison Arts, Santa Fe, NM
"30 Years in the Hole" Hawk Galleries, Columbus, OH
"New Work" Friesen Gallery, Seattle,WA
SOFA Chicago, with Hawk Galleries, Columbus,OH
2004  SOFA Chicago, Hawk Galleries, Chicago IL
"Birds in Art", Leigh Yawkey Woodson Art Museum, Wausau WI
"Introducing..., " Addison Parks Gallery, Santa Fe NM
"International Glass"- The Haverty Collection, Mobile Museum of Art,
Mobile, AL
2003  SOFA Chicago, Hawk Galleries, Chicago IL
"Northern Lights", Running Ridge Gallery, Santa Fe, NM
"Artists and the Cultivated Landscape", Racine Art Museum, WI
"CraftHouston 2003" : National",
Houston Center for Contemporary Craft, TX
"Originals 2003-Traces of the Journey", Albuquerque Museum, NM
"Objects", Lewallen Contemporary, Santa Fe, NM
"Contemporary Art 2003", Fuller Art Lodge, Los Alamos, NM
2002 "Mutevoli Transparenze", Padova, Italy
"North American Glass 2002", Guilford Handcraft Center, CT
"Reticello 2002", Glasmusseet Ebeltoft and Rosenburg Castle, Denmark
2001 "Primary Colors" Elliott Brown Gallery, Seattle, WA
2000 "Glass," LewAllen Contemporary Art, Santa Fe, NM
1999 "Vetro al Femminile," Galleria Marina Barovier, Venice, ITALY
"Glass," Ledbetter Lusk Gallery, Memphis, TN
"Women Artists in the Land of Enchantment," New Mexico Committee,
National Museum of Women in the Arts, Santa Fe, NM
"Master’s Exhibition," Gumps, San Francisco, CA
"Enduring Form," LewAllen Contemporary Art, Santa Fe, NM
1998 "Glass from the High Desert: New Mexico Glassworkers,
" The
Governor’s Gallery", Santa Fe, NM
1997 SOFA Chicago, Represented by Habatat Galleries, Pontiac, MI
"25th Annual Invitational," Habatat Galleries, Pontiac, MI
"New Mexico Glass," Obsidian Gallery, Tucson, AZ
1997 "Gallery Artists," Cline-Lewallen Gallery, Santa Fe, NM
SOFA Miami. Represented by Elliott-Brown Gallery
Seattle Art Exposition, Seattle, WA. Represented by Elliott-Brown Gallery
1O1 Cups Invitational, Karan Ruhlen, Santa Fe, NM
1996 "The Fine Art of Craft and Sculpture," Cline-Lewallen Gallery,
Santa
Fe, NM
"Gallery Artists," Imago, Palm Desert, CA
SOFA Miami, Miami, FL. Represented by Elliott-Brown Gallery
1995 "Desert Heart," Philabaum Gallery, Tucson, AZ
"American Art Glass," Halls Gallery, Kansas City, MO.
Helen Heninger, Curator
"The Glass Eye," Katie Gingrass Gallery, Milwaukee, WI
SOFA Miami, Miami FL. Represented by Elliott-Brown Gallery
1994 Seattle Art Exposition, Seattle, WA.
Represented by Elliott-Brown Gallery
Pilchuck Invitational, William Traver Gallery, Seattle, WA
1993 New Art Forms Exposition, Navy Pier, Chicago, IL.
Represented by Elliott- Brown Gallery
"Progressive Art Forms of the '90's III," Garland Gallery
1992 "Exposition Internationale De Verre Contemporain,"
Civic Centre, Rouen, France
"Glass '92," Imago, Palm Springs, CA
"A Room With Two Views," Grohe Glass Gallery, Boston, MA
"New Glass," Joanne Rapp Gallery, Scottsdale, AZ
"Progressive Art Forms of the '90's II," Garland Gallery, Santa Fe, NM
1991 Helander Gallery, Palm Beach, FL
"A Sense of Place," Peyton-Wright Gallery, Santa Fe, NM
"Progressive Art Forms of the '90's," Garland Gallery,
Santa Fe, NM
1990 "CACTUS!" Old Pueblo Museum, Tucson, AZ
Holsten Galleries, Palm Beach, FL
Naples Art Gallery, Naples, FL
Vesperman Gallery, Atlanta, GA

 

SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2004 "New Works", Addison Parks Gallery, Santa Fe NM
2000 "Industrial Evolution," Elliott-Brown Gallery, Seattle, WA
1998 "Other Arrangements," Elliott-Brown Gallery, Seattle, WA
"Flo Perkins," LewAllen Contemporary, Santa Fe, NM
1997 "Tenacious Plant Forms," Habatat Galleries, Pontiac, MI
1996 "A Fall Show," Elliott-Brown Gallery, Seattle, WA
1994 "Convolvulacous," Elliott-Brown Gallery, Seattle, WA
1993 "Flo Perkins: Glass," Albuquerque Museum, Albuquerque, NM
1992 "Opera Nova," Garland Gallery, Santa Fe, NM
1990 "In Situ," Garland Gallery, Santa Fe, NM
1989 "Hybrids," Grohe Glass Gallery, Boston, MA
1987 "Introductions," Adelle M. Gallery, Dallas, TX
"Bright Ideas," Traver-Sutton Gallery, Seattle, WA
1986 "New Species," Traver-Sutton Gallery, Seattle, Wa

GRANTS/AWARDS
2003 Merit Award,"Originals 2003-Traces of the Journey",
Albuquerque Museum,NM
2003 "Contemporary Art 2003" Third Place, Fuller Lodge Art Center,
Los Alamos, NM
1991 Steuben Design Competition Winner, Corning, NY
1981 National Endowment for the Arts, Washington, DC;
Apprenticeship Grant.
 
BIBLIOGRAPHY

American Studio Glass  1960 - 1990, Martha Drexler LynnHudson Hills Press, Manchester,VT

Taking Risks:The Art of Flo Perkins,Santa Fean Magazine,v. 33,no. 1

Blown Glass:Art or Craft?.,Wildlife Art,V.XXIV No.3

New Mexico Millenium Collection, Nancy Stem, Kathryne Fowler,
New Mexico
Millenium Collection, 2001
Reticello.02, Dagmar Brendstrup, Glassmuseet Ebeltoft, 2002
The Corning Museum of Glass Annual Report , 2001
The Glass Art Society 2001 Journal, 2001
Contemporary Glass - Color, Light & Form, Ray Leier, Jan Peters, Kevin
Wallace, Guild Publishing, 2001
Arte, (Italian art magazine), August 1999
GLASS: The UrbanGlass Art Quarterly, Marsha Miro,
Number 68, Fall, 1997.
American Style, Kathie Jackson Anderson, Spring. 1997.
Pilchuck: A Glass School, Tina Oldknow,
University of Washington Press, 1996.
Santa Fe and Taos; Under a Coyote Moon, Lisel Dennis,
Chronicle Books, 1996.
New Glass Review, 16, 1994.
THE Magazine, April, 1993.
New Mexico Magazine, May 1992.
Glass Magazine, No 42, Winter, 1990.
Glass: A Contemporary Art, Dan Klein, Rizzoli International, 1989.
Contemporary Glass: A World Survey from the Corning Museum of Glass,
Suzanne K. Frantz, Abrams, Inc., 1989.
Southwest Art, Nov., 1986.
Art in America, March, 1985.
Glass Art Society Journal, 1983-84.
American Glass Art Quarterly, Fall, 1983.
Artspace, Summer, 1983.
Glass Studio, No. 29, 1982.
New Glass/New Glass, 1981.
New Glass Review I & II, Corning Museum of Glass, 1979 - 80.
Contemporary Glass Microfiche, Corning Museum of Glass,
Corning, NY, 1977-78.

TEACHING EXPERIENCE/LECTURES

2005 Penland School, Penland, NC; Hot Glass Studio Workshop.

2003 Glass Art Society Conference, Seattle WA, Panel Moderator
"The Outer Rim: Life Beyond Seattle"
2002 San Jose State University, San Jose, CA;
Guest Lecturer and Instructor.
2001 Corning Glass Conference, Corning, NY; Panel Speaker,
"Blowpipe for Hire"
1997 Glass Art Society Conference, Tucson, AZ;
Artist Presentation,"Translating Tenacity."
1996 Loyola-Marymount College, Santa Monica, CA;
Senior Seminar Speaker
Cornish College of Art, Seattle, WA; Freshman Seminar Speaker.
1995 Penland School, Penland, NC; Hot Glass Studio Workshop.
1994 Pilchuck School, Seattle, WA; Hot Glass Studio Workshop.
San Jose State University, San Jose, CA; Hot Glass Workshop.
1993 Penland School, Penland, NC; Hot Glass Studio Workshop.
1991 California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo, CA;
Artist
Presentation and Demonstration to the California Glass Exchange.
1986 University of California, San Diego, CA;
History of American Folk Art
"The Oxymoron of Glass Folk Art."
1982 Glass Art Society Conference, Tucson, AZ;
"Technical Aspects of
Silicone."
Pilchuck School, Seattle,WA; Teaching Assistant: Dan Dailey.
1981 Pilchuck School, Seattle,WA; Teaching Assistant:
Flora Mace & Joey Kirkpatrick
 
 

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