Richard Marquis, Bullseye Connection Gallery, Portland

Richard Marquis
Bullseye Connection Gallery, Portland
August 4 - September 25, 2004

The Bullseye Connection Gallery presents Richard Marquis, an exhibition of kilnformed and blown glass.

Richard Marquis’s work has a cheeky tone with a teasing, appealing wit. Tina Oldknow, Curator of Modern Glass at The Corning Museum of Glass and author of the definitive Richard Marquis Objects (Seattle, University of Washington Press, 1997), says “[Marquis’s work is] humorous, but the approach is sophisticated and smart rather than slapstick and stupid. Dick’s work is often about subversion, and it can be particularly charming in its subversiveness. But, sometimes the work is about beauty, such as [his] exquisitely composed and colored collection of murrine eggs in their pristine cups, or it is about pathos, the companion of beauty, which is illustrated by [his] vessel-laden murrine elephant.”

Richard Marquis has a long and well-recognized list of national and international artistic accomplishments. He has been awarded four National Endowment for the Arts Grants (1990, 1981, 1978, 1974). He will be this year’s recipient of the Libensky Award and is the featured artist of the Chateau Ste. Michelle Meritage Series for 2004. Richard Marquis was also the recipient of the Outstanding Achievement in Glass award from UrbanGlass in New York, NY for 2002. 

Richard Marquis has had numerous international solo and group exhibitions. His work is included in many public and private collections, including the Australian National Gallery, Canberra; Corning Museum of Glass, Corning, NY; Glasmuseet Ebeltoft, Ebeltoft, Denmark; Museum of Arts & Design, New York, NY (formerly American Craft Museum); National Art Museum, Auckland, New Zealand; National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, Victoria; National Glasmuseum, Leerdam, Holland; National Museum of American Art, Renwick Gallery, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C.; New Orleans Museum of Art, New Orleans, LA; Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, PA; Royal Ontario Museum, Toronto; Seattle Art Museum, Seattle, WA; The Toledo Museum of Art, Toledo, OH; Victoria and Albert Museum, London.

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