Artist List    David Schwarz    Images  |  Bio |  Oregon Art Beat Episode Born: Vancouver, Washington, 1952 EDUCATION Masters of Science: Glass, Illinois State University Normal, IL 1982 Pilchuck Glass School, Summers, Staff Member 1979-1986 B.A., Central Washington University, Ellensburg, WA 1978-1979 A.A., Arts and Science, / Applied Science, Engineering Technology, Clark College, Vancouver, WA 1974-1977 SOLO EXHIBITIONS Laura Russo Gallery, Portland, OR 2009 “Searching for Balance,” Foster/White Gallery, Seattle, WA 2009 Foster/White Gallery, Seattle, WA 1983, 1984, 1985, 1990, 1993, 1996, 1999, 2005 Marx Saunders Gallery, Chicago, IL 1997, 1998, 2002, 2008 “A Mid-Career Retrospective” Contemporary Crafts Museum and Gallery, Portland, OR 2006 Margo Jacobsen Gallery, Portland, OR 1994, 2002 Edgewood Orchard Gallery, Fish Creek, WI 2001 Kavesh Gallery, Ketchum, ID 1996 Galerie L, Hamburg, Germany 1995 New Art Gallery, Paris, France 1991 Utah Museum of Fine Arts, Salt Lake City, UT 1989 SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS Laura Russo Gallery, Portland, OR 2008, 2009 “International Glass Invitational,” Habatat Galleries, Boca Raton FL 1998-2007 “Exhibition in Glass,” Katzen Museum, American University, Washington DC 2007 “Optic Journey: A Two Decade Exploration of Illusionary Space” Archer Gallery, Clark College, Vancouver, WA 2007 “Capturing The Light: Masterworks of Contemporary Glass, Everhart Museum, Scranton PA 2006 Hodgell Gallery, Sarasota, FL 2005 “Master Craft” Gump’s San Francisco, CA 2001, 2003, 2004 “Three Person,” Marx/Saunders Gallery, Chicago, IL 2004 “Translucent; Altered Reality” Post Picasso, Richmond VA 2003 “Trial By Fire: Contemporary Glass,” Florida State University, Museum of Fine Art, Tallahasse, FL 2003 Margo Jacobsen Gallery, Portland,Oregon 1997, 2000 “ Stockbridge Glass Invitational" Holsten Galleries, Stockbridge,MA 1989, 1994, 1997, 1998, 1999, 2000 "A Study in Light: Contemporary American Glass" Center for the Arts in Vero Beach, FL 1999 "Hot & Cool: Contemporary Glass Works" Touring Exhibition, J Wayne Stark University Center Gallery, College Station, TX; Tyler Museum of Art, Tyler, TX 1999 "The White House Collection of American Crafts" The Colby College Museum Of Art, Waterville, MN and Tampa Museum of Art, Tampa, FL 1997 "Blowing Hot, Cutting Cold, 35th Anniversary of the Studio Glass Movement" Lakeview Museum of Arts and Sciences, Peoria, IL 1997 "Craft At Gumps: The Hellen Heninger Years" San Francisco Craft and Folk Art Museum San Francisco, CA 1996 "The White House Collection of American Crafts" Los Angeles County Museum of Art Los Angeles, CA 1996 "Contemporary American Crafts" Gump's San Francisco, CA 1996 "Artists of the White House Collection", del Mano Gallery, Los Angeles, CA 1996 "Two Person", Galerie la Petrusse, Luxembourg 1995 "The Bavarian Guild of Crafts International Fair", Munich, Germany 1995 "Pilchuck Glass Exhibition", Seattle-Tacoma International Airport, Seattle WA 1995 "Hall's American Glass Show", Hallmark, Kansas City, MO 1995 "Art Fair", Galerie L, Hannover, Germany 1995 "The White House Collection of American Crafts", Renwick Gallery, National Museum of American Art, Smithsonian, Washington DC : American Craft Museum, New York, NY 1995 "Collective Brilliance: Contemporary Glass", Albany Museum of Art, Albany, GA 1994 "Invitational Glass Exhibition", Elliot Smith Contemporary Art Gallery, St Louis, MS 1994 "Inside Information", Kavesh Gallery, Ketchum (Sun Valley), ID 1994 "Invitational Glass Exhibition", Jeanine Cox Gallery, Miami Beach, FL 1994 "International Glass Invitational", Judy Youens Gallery, Houston, TX 1994 "Maximizing the Minimum: Small Glass Sculpture", Museum of American Glass, Wheaton Village, Millville, NJ 1993 "Two Person", Vespermann Gallery, Atlanta, GA 1993 "From Tiffany to Ben Tre: A Century of Glass", Milwaukee, WI 1993 "Three Person", Glass Art Gallery, Toronto, Canada 1993 "Abstraction in Glass 93", Northern Arizona University Art Museum, Flagstaff, AZ 1993 "Glass Alumni Show", Central Washington University, Ellensburg, WA 1992 "Out of the Fire", An Exhibition of Northwest Glass, The Glass Gallery, Bethesda, MD 1992 "11th Annual, In Celebration of Glass Weekend" Featured Artist, Edgewood Orchard Galleries 1992 Judy Youens Gallery, Houston, TX 1988, 1991, 1992 "Invitational Glass Exhibition", Imago Gallery, Palm Springs, CA 1992 "Contemporary Glass", Contemporary Crafts Gallery, Portland, OR 1991 "Habitat's International Invitational Exhibition", Lathrup Village, MI 1981-1988, 1991 "Twelfth Anniversary Exhibition, International", Glass Art Gallery, Toronto, Canada 1991 "The Frozen Moment-Glass in the Northwest", Bellevue Art Museum, Bellevue, WA 1991 "The Nineteenth Annual International Glass Invitational", Habitat Galleries, Farmington Hills, MI 1991 "Wheaton Village/Glass Weekend", Judy Youens Gallery, Millville, NJ 1991 "Glass Weekend", Edgewood Orchard Galleries, Fish Creek, WI 1991 "Glass Invitational", Contemporary Crafts Gallery, Portland, OR 1991 "New Art Forms Exhibition", Judy Youens Gallery, Chicago, IL 1991 "Illinois Glass, U of I and ISU Perspective", Marx Gallery, Chicago, IL 1991 "Two Person", Columbia Arts Center, Vancouver, WA 1991 "Scale/Detail 1991", Habitat Galleries, Farmington Hills, MI 1991 "Northwest Glass Show", Laura Russo Gallery, Portland, OR 1991 "Miami Art Fair", Nan Miller Gallery, Miami, FL 1991 "Out of the Fire", Traver Sutton Gallery, Seattle, WA 1991 "The Ninth Annual", International Habitat Galleries, Boca Raton, FL 1990 "Two Person", Glass Art Gallery, Toronto, Canada 1990 "A Season Of Light", Davenport Museum of Art, Davenport, IA 1990 "Chicago International New Art Forms Exposition", Judy Youens Gallery, Chicago, IL 1990 "Glass Invitational", C Corcoran Gallery, Muskegon, MI 1990 "Bewitch By Crafts", Benefit 1989, American Craft Museum, New York, NY 1989 "1989 Philadelphia Art Show", Nan Miller Gallery, Philadelphia Civic Center, Pennsylvania Hall, Philadelphia, PA 1989 "Contemporary Glass Art Show", Nan Miller Gallery, Rochester, NY 1989 "Second Annual Pilchuck Glass Show", Great American Gallery, Atlanta, GA 1989 "International Invitational Sculpture Show", Judy Youens Gallery, Houston, TX 1989 "Two Person", Holsten Gallery, Palm Beach, FL 1987, 1989 "Contemporary Glass", Contemporary Crafts, Portland, OR 1989 "From Hot Shop To HotLanta", Great American Gallery, Atlanta, GA 1988 "Pilchuck: The Great Glass Experiment", Bellevue Art Museum, Bellevue, WA 1988 "Two Person", Gumps Gallery, San Francisco, CA 1984 -1988 "Glass America", Heller Gallery, New York, NY 1988 "Pilchuck, Glass Artists of the American Northwest", American Embassy, Prague, Czechoslovakia 1988 "Pilchuck: The Great Glass Experiment", Bellevue Art Museum, Bellevue, WA 1988 "Second Annual Invitational Glass Show", Perception Galleries, Houston, TX 1986 "Palm Beach Invitational", Holsten Gallery, Palm Beach, FL 1986 "New Aesthetic" and International Invitational, Habatat Galleries, Bay Harbor Island, FL 1986 "New Glass", BZ Wagman Gallery, St Louis, MI 1985 Habatat Galleries, Bay Harbor Islands, FL 1983, 1985 "West To Northwest", David Bernstein Gallery, Boston, MA 1985 "Three Person Show", Heller Gallery, New York, NY 1985 "Pilchuck Glass", Traver Sutton Gallery, Seattle, WA 1985 "St. Louis Art Museum", St Louis, MI 1984 Habatat Galleries, Bay Harbor Islands, FL 1984 "Etched Glass Show", Perception Galleries, Houston, TX 1983 "Pilchuck Glass", Traver Sutton Gallery, Seattle, WA 1983 "Fifth Annual National Glass Exhibition", Contemporary Artisans Gallery, San Francisco, CA 1983 "The Glass Art Gallery", Toronto, Canada 1983 "Glass: State of the Art, II", Ivor Kruland Glass Art Gallery, Los Angeles, CA 1982 "West Coast Glass", Meyer Breier Weiss, San Francisco, CA 1982 "Capitol Glass Invitational", The Glass Gallery, Bethesda, MD 1982 "Pilchuck: Faculty and Artists in Residence", Glass Art Gallery, Toronto 1982 "Pilchuck Glass", Traver Sutton Gallery, Seattle, WA 1981 "Americans in Glass", Leigh Yawkey Woodson Art Museum, Cooper-Hewitt Museum, Krannert Art Museum, Wausaw, WI 1981 "Illinois State University Student Show Exhibition", Normal ,IL 1980 "Pilchuck: Faculty and Artist in Residence", Glass Art Gallery, Toronto 1980 SELECTED COLLECTIONS The Boeing Company, Seattle, WA Cincinnati Art Museum, Cincinnati, Ohio Corning Museum of Glass, Corning, NY City of Everett Public Art Collection, Everett, WA Fuqua Industries, Atlanta, GA High Museum of Art, Atlanta, GA Hunter Museum of American Art, Chattanooga, TN Mark Twain Bank, St Louis, MO Milwaukee Museum of Art, Milwaukee, WI Museum of Art and Archaeology, University of Missouri-Columbia Muskegon Museum of Art: Muskegon, MI Prescott Collection of Pilchuck Glass at Pacific First Center, Seattle, WA Rainier Bank, Seattle, WA SAFECO, Seattle, WA City of Seattle Portable Works Collection, Seattle, WA Sheraton Hotel, Seattle, WA Seafirst Corporation, Seattle, WA Smithsonian Institution, National Museum of American Art, Washington DC State Compensation Insurance Fund of California, San Francisco, CA Utah Museum of Fine Arts, Salt Lake City, UT Washington State Arts Commission, Olympia, WA The White House, Washington DC BIBLIOGRAPHY Preview, Nov/Dec/Jan, 2009/10, exhibition noted with illustration p. 87 “Oregon Art Beat: 10th Season Premier,” OPB Member Guide, September 2008, Front Cover and Page 4, First air date, Thursday, September 18, 2008 “Shows of Note,” The Oregonian, March 6, 2007 Gallivan, Joseph, “Artist cuts into cold surfaces to fashion hot, dynamic glass” and “Glass: Interior-Exterior dynamic unfold,” Portland Tribune, June 13, 2006 20th Century Glass, Compiled by Judith Miller, The Price Guide Company, Published October 2004 “Contemporary Glass 2004” Twenty-First Annual International Glass Invitational, Habatat Galleries, Boca Raton, FL Catalogue 2004 Illustrated pages 60,61 “Contemporary Glass, 2003” 20th annual international Glass Invitational, Habatat Galleries, Boca Raton, FL Catalogue 2002 Illustrated pages 31, 102 Yood, James, Trial By Fire/ Contemporary Glass, Illustrated pages: 44,58,64,76, Florida State University Museum of Fine Arts, Museum Press Printer: Progressive Printing, Jacksonville, 2003 "Contemporary Glass 2001, 18th Annual international Glass Invitational" Habatat Galleries Boca Raton, FL Catalogue 1999 Illustrated pages 58, 59 Bailey, Mike, "Vancouver Glass Artist Featured On TV Show," The Columbian, Vancouver, Washington, October 16, 2000 "16th Annual International Glass Invitational" Habatat Galleries, Boca Raton, FL, Illustrated Catalogue, 1998, page 63 Hicks, Bob, "Reflecting The Fine Art Of Glass, Illuminating Innovations," The Oregonian, October 14, 1997 "Blowing Hot, Cutting Cold, 35th Anniversary of the Studio Glass Movement" Lake View of Arts and Sciences, Peoria, IL Catalogue 1997, Illustrated page 17 Johnson, Holly, The Columbian, Vancouver, Washington, September 27, 1996 Wentworth, Shirley, The Columbian, Vancouver, Washington, December 3, 1995 Lorge, Marie-Anne, Luxembourger Wort – Luxembourg, June 14, 1995 Jewett, David, The Columbian, Vancouver, Washington, June 29,1995 Monroe, Michael W., Barbaralee Diamonstein, and Elizabeth Broun, The White House Collection of American Crafts, Harry N Abrams, Inc, Publishers, New York, NY 1995 "Maximizing the Minimum: Small Glass Sculpture", Museum of American Glass, Wheatton Village: Millville, NJ Catalogue 1993, Illustrated, page 28 "Tiffany to Ben Tre': A Century of Glass", Milwaukee Art Museum, Publisher: Burton and Meyer, Inc, Milwaukee, WI Catalogue 1993, Illustrated pages 19 and 20 Chambers, Karen, "Out of the Fire," Glass Magazine, Winter 1991-1992 Journal, Illustrated Sisson, Mary, "Artist Uses Optics to Create Movement," The Oregonian, September 14, 1991 Miller, Bonnie, Out of the Fire, Chronicle Books, San Francisco, CA 1991 “Show Case", Glass Art Magazine, September/October 1990 Journal, Illustrated Carmichael, Suzanne,”The Art of Glass in the Northwest,” The New York Times, December 30, 1990 Frantz, Susanne K., Contemporary Glass - A World Survey From the Corning Museum of Glass, Illustrated, Harry Abrams, New York, NY 1989 Klein, Dan, Glass, A Contemporary Art, , Illustrated, Rizzoli International Publications Inc, 597 Fifth Ave, New York, NY 1989 Warren Smith, Virginia, “Studio glass poses novel possibilities, Show an excellent view of the state of the art, “ The Atlanta Journal Constitution, May 28, 1988 Hampson, Ferdinand, Glass: State of the Art 2, Illustrated, Elliot Johnston Publishers: Huntington Woods, MI, 1988 Hampson, Ferdinand and Thomas Boone, 25 Years: Glass As an Art Medium, Illustrated, Apple Printing, Birmingham, MI 1987 Reif, Wendy, “Steel Home Meets Need of Craft,” The Columbian, Vancouver, Washington, October 4, 1987, (Full color article on David Schwarz and his new home and studio.) Gilbert, Holly, “Glass Act Often Blows the Viewer Away,” The Oregonian, April 28, 1986 Grampp, Evelyn, New Work - Winter/Spring 1986 "Work in Glass" by: Ferdinand Hampson, The 14th Annual National Glass, Invitational, Habatat Galleries Apple Printing; Madison Heights, MI Catalogue 1986, Illustrated Hampson, Ferdinand "Insight, A Collector's Guide to Contemporary American Glass," Elliot Johnston Publishers; Huntington Woods, MI 1985 Illustrated Catalogue Tarzan, Delores,” Paint and Crystal Attract the Eye, The Seattle Times, February 10, 1985 Hooister, Paul, “Diversity of Techniques in Glass,” The New York Times, January 3, 1985 Hampson, Ferdinand, Glass, State of the Art 1984, Illustrated, Apple Printing; Birmingham, MI 1984 The Seattle Times, August 19, 1983 New York Magazine, Summer/Fall 1983 Glowen, Ron, “The Art of Transformation,” The Herald- Seattle Washington, August 11, 1983 “New Work,” Glass Happenings, Summer/Fall 1983, Illustrated Journal Robinson, John, "A Glass Menagerie" Pacific Northwest, December 1983, Illustrated Journal "The Fine Art of Contemporary American Glass": The 11th Annual National Invitational, Habatat Galleries The Catalogue Co, Sponsored by the Columbus College of Art and Design 1983 “Americans In Glass” Leigh Yawkey Woodson Art museum, Wausaw, WI 1981, Catalogue,