About | Kari Minnick Art Stu

Artist Statement:

"My art and life are a study of contrasts; order and chaos, thick and thin, questioning and acceptance.

Using rich surfaces and layers of glass,

I contrast fleshy realism with abstraction. Immediacy and restraint, delicacy and directness; I balance bold composition and nuanced line.

A maker of pictures and teller of stories, I'm soothed by familiar fluency,

yet stirred by ecstatic newness.

Fleeting gesture on solid ground,

murky meaning and bruising impact, unrest and eerie calm.

Disparate elements crescendo and resolve into beauty."

Bio:

Kari Minnick owns and operates Kari Minnick Art Studio, where she produces architectural commissions, fine art and introduces artists from other media to kiln-glass. Her glasswork has won several prestigious awards and is held internationally in private, corporate and embassy collections. Minnick began her career as a painter; earning a degree in studio art from the University of California at Davis. An exhibiting artist and dynamic educator, Kari shows her work and teaches her signature classes internationally.

Selected Teaching Venues:

The Studio of the Corning Museum of Glass, Corning, NY

Bullseye Glass Company, Resources Centers: CA, NM, NY, OR

Pittsburgh Glass Center, Pittsburgh, PA

Creative Glass, UK and Switzerland

Blue Dog Glass, Melbourne, AUS

Art Glass Studio, Perth, AUS

Selected Commissions and Collections:

Lani McGregor, Portland, OR

Fortune 500 Healthcare headquarters, Minneapolis, MN

Embassy Suites Hotel, Washington, DC

Hampden Square, Bethesda, MD

Holy Cross Hospital, Silver Spring, MD

Holy Cross Hospital, Germantown, MD

Homewood Suites (Hilton Hotels), Silver Spring, MD

Morgan Stanley, Rockville, MD

Samek McMillan & Metro, Rockville, MD

Sheppard Mullin Richter & Hampton, Washington, DC

Swedish Embassy, Washington, DC

Wendy Day, Atlanta, GA

Dawson and Audrey Heck, Reno, NV

Dr. Mimi Cameron, Silver Spring, MD

Marsha Gold, Washington, DC

Honors and Residencies:

2019 Pilchuck Glass School: Invitational Residency, Stanwood, WA

2015 Glass Art Society Conference: Portfolio Reviewer

2014 Highland Inspiration: Location and Perception,

A NorthLands International Symposium, NorthLands Creative Glass, Lybster, Scotland

2012 Abstraction of Place in the High Desert of New Mexico: A Professional kiln-glass residency, Abiquiu and Santa Fe, NM

2010, 2011 In Place: Kiln Formed Glass in the Built Environment Invitational international residency at NorthLands Creative Glass, Lybster, Scotland

2011 Crossover: A Material Exchange Exploring the interface between kiln glass and other media, Conference presenter at BECon, Portland, OR

2008 Juror's Choice Award: Outstanding craftsmanship and achievement in glass, Bay Area Glass Institute Gala, San Jose, CA

2007 Celebrating Connections: Contemporary Glass Art by Mid-Atlantic Artists at the Museum of American Glass in Millville, NJ

Selected Exhibits:

2022 26TH ANNUAL GALAXY OF GLASS: Guest Artist, Fallbrook arts Center, Fallbrook, CA

2016 SURFACE AND ATMOSPERE: a group exhibition of kiln-glass paintings by Northwest artists, Bullseye Projects, Portland, OR

2014 SYNTHESIS 2: fusing and kilnforming, Morgan Contemporary Glass Gallery,

Pittsburgh, PA

2014 SURFACES: Three Sculptors Explore Surface, A New Leaf Gallery/ Sculpturesite, Sonoma, CA

2013 PAINTING WITH GLASS, Bullseye Resource Center New York, NY

2013 THRESHOLD: A Kiln Formed Glass show from Bullseye Glass, focusing on works that are in dialogue with painting and printmaking. Oregon College of Art and Craft, Portland, OR

2013 SMITHSONIAN CRAFT SHOW, National Building Museum, Washington, DC

2012 FACTURE: Artists at the Forefront of Painterly Glass, Bullseye Gallery, Bay Area Resource Center, Emeryville, CA

2012 FACTURE: Artists at the Forefront of Painterly Glass, Bullseye Gallery, Portland, OR

2011 CROSSOVER: An exhibition of work by artists whose practices aren't defined by a single medium, Bullseye Gallery, Portland, OR

2011 10 x 10 x10: Hodge Gallery, Pittsburgh Glass Center, Pittsburgh, PA

2010 INTERSECT: Glass Meets Art, Invitational, The Dennis and Phillip Ratner Museum, Bethesda, MD

2010 IN THE CLEAR: New Glass by Kari Minnick, solo invitational show, BlackRock Center for the Arts, Germantown, MD

2009 COLOR IN SPACE: Sculpture Invitational, Montgomery College, Rockville, MD

2008 STEPPING STONES: Gene Davis, his students, his influence, VisArts Metropolitan Center for the Visual Arts, Rockville, MD

2008 ART in Embassies Program, ambassador’s residence, Athens, Greece

2008 CIRCULAR LOGIC: Joan Belmar and Kari Minnick, Aaron Gallery, Washington, DC

2008 KARI MINNICK: Kilnformed Glass, Aaron Gallery, Washington, DC

2007 WHICH CAME FIRST? Drawing Conclusions, solo exhibit, Hillyer Art Space, Washington, DC

2007 GLASS WEEKEND ’07 in the Gallery, Morgan Contemporary Glass Gallery,

Pittsburgh, PA

2007 CELEBRATING CONNECTIONS: Contemporary Glass by Mid-Atlantic

Artists, Museum of American Glass, Millville, NJ

2006 ART in Embassies Program, ambassador’s residence, Capetown, South Africa

2006 SYNTHESIS: Fusing + Kilnforming, Morgan Contemporary Glass Gallery, Pittsburgh, PA

2005 CELEBRATE THE SEASON, National Museum of Women in the Arts, Washington, DC.

2004 GLASS.TRON.O.MY - when the artistry of glass and the feel of clay meet the magic of cuisine, RAS Galleries, Yountville, CA

2004 TRANSFORMED BY FIRE: Glass Today, Target Gallery, Torpedo Factory Art Center, Alexandria, VA

2003 BETWEEN THE LINES, The Glass Gallery, Bethesda, MD