Still Life with Pear

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Still Life with Pear

Artist Flora Mace (American, born 1949)

Artist Joey Kirkpatrick (American, born 1952)

Place of OriginSeattle, Washington

Date1992-1994

DimensionsAcorn squash: 14 1/4 x 11 1/4 in. (36.2 x 28.6 cm);
Pear: 22 1/4 x 14 7/8 in. (56.5 x 37.8 cm);
Eggplant: 26 5/8 x 11 1/8 in. (67.6 x 28.3 cm);
Black wooden bowl: 4 1/4 x 37 1/4 in. (10.8 x 94.6 cm)

MediumBlown glass, painted alderwood

ClassificationGlass

Credit LineGift of Dale and Doug Anderson in honor of Dorothy and George Saxe

Object number

1996.28A-D

Not on View

Label TextThe oversize fruit “still lifes” of Flora Mace and Joey Kirkpatrick are intended to, in their words, “confront the viewer and awaken our appreciation of the visual world around us.” Their unique method of coloring their glass “evolved out of our experience using the two dimensional painting tradition. As in painting, we have learned to build layers of color by sifting colored crushed glass powders onto hot glass during the blowing process. It was exciting to find a method of ‘painting’ onto three dimensional blown glass, creating forms with a painterly surface of realistic color and textures.”Published ReferencesLynn, Martha Drexler, Sculpture, Glass, and American Museums, Philadelphia, University of Pennsylvania Press, 2005, p. 203, 210, repr. (col.).Exhibition HistoryHabatat Galleries, MichiganComparative ReferencesSee also Seattle Art Museum, Documents Northwest: The Poncho Series, 1989, brochure (unpaged). Cf. Miller, Bonnie, "Double Vision," AMERICAN CRAFT, vol. 49, no. 5, October - November, 1989, pp. 40-45. Cf. Biskeborn, Susan, Artists at Work: Twenty-five Northwest Glassmakers, Ceramists, and Jewelers, Seattle and Anchorage, 1990, pp. 10-15. Cf. La Conner, Washington, Valley Museum of Northwest Art, Joey Kirkpatrick/Flora C. Mace, 1991, brochure (unpaged.). Cf. Ames, Iowa, Brunnier Gallery and Museum, Iowa State University, Kirkpatrick/Mace, 1993, brochure (unpaged).