Paul Marioni
Paul Marioni is one of the earliest members of the Studio Glass movement, with a professional dossier that includes numerous awards, commissions and inclusion into the some of the most prominent art collections around the world.
Paul Marioni is an artist, who has pushed the techniques of working with glass to the limit. He explores themes centred on human nature – what we do and why we do it; human identity; heroes and historical moments; multi-cultural issues and spiritualism without religion. His most recent work delves into the realm of the material itself and its physical possibilities. Glass is a material commonly associated with fragility, but Paul Marioni's kinetic pieces are meant to be touched, rocking back and forth, allowing light to be captured and transmitted in various ways.
"I work with glass for its distinct ability to capture and manipulate light, to create an illusion of motion or three dimensionality in the two dimensional plane, and to create moving light in kinetic glass sculptures. While my techniques are often inventive, they are only in service of the image."
Honors
Lifetime Achievement Award, Glass Art Society, 2004
Fellow of the American Crafts Council
Board Member APAC, Pilchuck Glass School, WA
Honorary Life Member, BC Glass Arts Association, Canada
Board of Directors, Glass Art Society, 1984-86
Awards
National Endowment for the Arts, Fellowship Grant 1976
National Endowment for the Arts, Building Arts Fellowship 1982
National Endowment for the Arts, Fellowship Grant 1989
“Kristallnacht Project”, Silver Award 1992
Pacific Northwest Annual, Bellevue Art Museum, WA, First Prize 1993
National Terrazzo Association, IL, Recognition Award 1997
Select exhibitions
“THE PREMONITION”, The Bellevue Art Museum, Bellevue, Wa.,2007-08, one man show
“12 PAINTINGS / 12 SCULPTURES, William Traver Gallery, Seattle, Wa. 2006
“SPACE/TIME, Imago Gallery, Palm Springs, Ca. 2005
“American Studio Glass: A Survey of the Movement”, Fairfield Art Museum+7 Museums National Tour, 2003-05
“A New Millennium, A New Light:A Survey of Architectural Glass Art”, Louisville Visual Art Ass., KY 2003
“Northwest Masters,” City Space, Seattle, WA 2002
“Twenti-fifth Anniversary Exhibition,” Traver Gallery, Seattle, WA 2002
“Agnosia“,William Traver Gallery, Seattle, WA 2001
“Trashformations: Recycled Materials”, 12 Museums National Tour, 1997-2000
“Enigmas”, William Traver Gallery, Seattle, WA 1998
“The Fluid Canvas”, Chappell Gallery at SOFA, Chicago, IL 1998
“You and Me”, Bush Barn Art Center, Salem, OR 1998
“Marioni/Marioni”, Fresno Art Museum, Fresno, CA 1998
“Telling Compelling Tales”, Holter Museum of Art, Helena, MT 1998
“Calido!: Contemporary Warm Glass”, 10 Museums National Tour, 1997-99
“Pilchuck Pioneers”, William Traver Gallery, Seattle, WA 1995
“Light Interpretations: Menorah Invitational”, Jewish Museum, San Francisco, CA 1995
“V. Internationales”, Glasmuseum Frauenau, Germany 1995
“Form and Light”, American Craft Museum, New York, NY 1994-95
“Clearly Art”, 12 Museums National Tour, 1992-95
“The Beauty of Painted Glass”, Bellevue Art Museum, Bellevue, WA 1994
“100 Years- California Crafts”, Oakland Art Museum, Oakland, CA 1993
“3rd International Symposium”, Stolzle-Oberglas Barnbach, Austria 1993
“Intern. Conferences on Environmental Glass”, Corning Museum of Glass, Corning, NY 1993
“Craft Today USA”, 15 Museums, European Tour, 1989-93
“200 Objects”, Corning Museum of Glass, Russia Tour, 1990-91
“Craft Today: Poetry of the Physical”, American Craft Museum, New York, NY 1986-88
“New Glass: A Worldwide Survey”, Corning Museum of Glass, World Tour, 1978-82
“Das Bild In Glas”, Hessisches Landesmuseum, Darmstadt, Germany 1979
“Americans in Glass”, Leigh Yawkey Woodson Art Museum, National Tour, 1978-80
Museum of Contemporary Crafts, New York, NY 1978
Renwick Gallery, Smithsonian Institute, Washington, DC 1975-78 and 1980
Collections
The Museum of Glass, Tacoma, Wa.
WA State Arts Commission Art Collection
King County Public Art Collection, Seattle, WA
Smithsonian, National Museum of American Art, Washington, DC
American Crafts Museum, New York, NY
Corning Glass Museum, Corning, NY
Yamaha Corporation, Tokyo, Japan
Oakland Art Museum, Oakland, CA
Verein Steinsches Glaskunstmuseum, Barnbach, Austria
Glasmuseum Frauenau, Frauenau, Germany
Hessisches Landesmuseum, Darmstadt, Germany
"The Microsoft Collection", Redmond, WA
"The Safeco Corporate Art Collection", Seattle, WA
Select Architectural Commissions
“Consilience, University of Houston, Texas, 2006
”Reflection Fountain”, US Courthouse, USGA, Seattle, WA 2004
“Our Place In Space”, King Co. Intern. Airport, Cultural Development Authority of King Co., Seattle, WA 2003
”Liquid Light“, Safeco Redmond Campus, Seattle, WA 2001
”Hetch Hetchy”, 150 California Street Financial Building, San Francisco, CA 2000
“Sonora”, George and Jane Russell, Tucson, AZ 1999
“River of Glass”, WA State Liquor Board, WA State “% for Art” program, Seattle, WA 1999
“Nest”, King County Court House, King County Arts Commission, Seattle, WA 1999
“Water=Energy”, Seattle City Light South Center, Seattle “% for Art”, Seattle, WA 1999
“Energy=Light”, Seattle City Light Apprentice Training, Seattle “% for Art”, Seattle, WA 1999
“The Journey”, Ron and Carol Margolis, Seattle, WA 1998
“Grasses”, Doug and Dale Anderson, Palm Beach, FL 1997
“Reflection Wall”, Swedish Medical Center Interfaith Chapel, Seattle, WA 1997
“Pillars”, Burbank Police/ Fire Facility, Burbank “% for Art” program, Burbank, CA 1997
“Shelter”, Veterinary Teaching Hospital, WA State “% for Art” program, Pullman, WA 1996
“Cat Man Do”, Lloyd Herman, Bellingham, WA 1993
“The Further I Look, the More I See”, Eye Clinic, University Medical Center, Seattle, WA 1993
“Light Columns”, Pier 69 Headquarters, Port of Authority, Seattle, WA 1993
“Reflections”, Chapel, Salvation Army 's NW Headquarters, Seattle, WA 1993
“Check It Out!”, Bellevue Regional Library, Bellevue, WA 1993
“Hohuq and Kotsuis”, Doug and Dale Anderson, New York, NY 1991
“Elements”, Easthill Fire Station Headquarters, Kent “% for Art” program, Kent, WA 1991
“Jungle Garden”, Stoel Rives Boley Jones and Grey, Seattle, WA 1990
“Seven Figures” and “Portal”, Greenlake Community Center “% for Art” program, Seattle, WA 1989
“Khadi”, Police Precinct North, Seattle “% for Art” program, Seattle, WA 1984
“The Human Spirit”, Timberline Lodge (Federal), Mt. Hood, OR 1983
“Stanford”, Stanford University, Palo Alto, CA 1977
Select Teaching
“What’s The Big Idea? Our Collaboration And More…” Ireland 2003
Pilchuck Glass School, Stanwood, WA 1974-88, 1996 and 2001
Penland School of Crafts, Penland, NC 1978,1988-1990, 1994, 1996 and 2000
San Francisco State University, San Francisco, CA 1974-77
California College of Arts and Crafts, Oakland, CA 1974-77
San Francisco Art Institute, San Francisco, CA 1973-74
