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The artist

Artist Statement:

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"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.

 

I'm a maker of pictures and teller of stories; 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:

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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. 

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Selected Teaching Venues:

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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

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Selected Commissions and Collections:

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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:

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2019  Pilchuck Glass School: Invitational Residency, Stanwood, WA

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2015  Glass Art Society Conference: Portfolio Reviewer

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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:​

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

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

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

Pittsburgh, PA

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

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

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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

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

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

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

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

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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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Pittsburgh, PA

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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

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

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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

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

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

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