Glass: 2006

Featured artist Michael Glancy

Michael Glancy, born in Detroit, Michigan in 1950, began working with glass in 1970, studied with Dale Chihuly in the mid 70s at the prestigious Rhode Island School of Design, and presented his first serious solo exhibition a decade later.

Glancy's first New York City one-man show at the Heller Gallery in 1980 was highlighted by the acquisition of his work into the permanent collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City, the Corning Museum of Glass, and the Victoria and Albert Museum in London.

Since that time Michael Glancy has had many major exhibitions both here in the United States as well as in Europe and Asia. A significant Michael Glancy book covering his designs from the earliest works in glass until the present day coincided with the opening of his first European solo exhibition at the Galerie von Bartha in Basel, Switzerland.

Major works were also exhibited at the Palazzo Ducale in Venice as part of the inaugural Venezia Aperto Vetro exhibition. May of 1997 was the occasion for Glancy's first New York City solo exhibition in 5 years, taking place at Barry Friedman Ltd. and featuring over 25 works spanning more than a year of concentrated effort.

The next show with Barry Friedman, Infinite Obsessions, (December 1999 - January 2000) was the realization of a career goal to mount an exhibition correlating rare historical objects from 1912-1934 by the seminal French studio glass artist Maurice Marinot with new works by contemporary artist Michael Glancy. A new publication and exhibition project in Basel, Switzerland for the spring of the year 2001, and a museum exhibition in Grenoble, France scheduled for the fall of 2002 keeps the artist busy today.

Michael Glancy currently lives in Massachusetts and teaches at the Rhode Island School of Design in Providence, Rhode Island.