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No scratches, dings, cracks, or chips. Dated January 1978 and numbered 887<br><br>Bio<br><br>Randy Strong<br><br>Winner of the juried 2005 and 2008 Niche award for blown glass and finalist for<br>2010 – awarded by Niche magazine for the best of blown glass in the United<br>States – Randy Strong – artist and designer in hot glass for 40 years, has<br>worked continuously throughout his career producing innovative designs in glass<br>that continually influence the ever changing and growing community of studio<br>glass artists.<br><br>Randy is one of a handful of the early pioneering American Glass Artists to help<br>define American Studio Art Glass. Before he was to enter the world of glass<br>however, he began his broad education in the arts by working in and collecting<br>photography. In the late 60’s he was working as an events photographer for the<br>Oakland Tribune, and for a brief period, was privileged to work with and learn<br>from photographer Ansel Adams. His first taste of working in glass came in 1969<br>at the California College of Arts and Crafts in Oakland, Calif. where he began<br>by studying ceramics and was fortunate to have as his mentor, the renowned<br>ceramicist, Peter Voulkos. Upon graduation in 1970 he received one of the first<br>scholarships to the University of Art in Osaka, Japan as one of the first<br>exchange students between the Universities of Calif., Calif. College of Arts and<br>Crafts, and Osaka, Japan. That grounding in ceramics led him into the largely<br>unknown (at that time ) frontier of studio art glass. In 1970, he was with Dale<br>Chihuly when Dale and the Haubergs selected the location for the now renowned<br>Pilchuck Glass School in Seattle, Washington – and the journey into that<br>frontier was well underway.<br><br>Many of today’s successful, working glass artists are either former students, or<br>have worked with or for him at one time. His work, ranging from his<br>distinctive crystal and gold goblets and his ground-breaking work with dichroic<br>glass, to his imposing cast sculptures, and now his seemingly gravity defying,<br>color saturated, multi-piece sculptures, have been acquired by collectors<br>internationally and are a part of collections ranging from The Corning Museum in<br>New York, to the Louvre in Paris.<br><br>Randy’s work through the last 4 decades has been characterized by the use of<br>difficult, defining techniques, materials, colors and forms. His newest<br>sculptural work again breaks new ground by challenging the concept of solid form<br>in glass by further expressing its personality in lightness and movement.<br><br>In 1970, he built and established his own studio and gallery in Northern<br>California, where he continues to create, design and teach. After 45 years of<br>making distinctive work in glass, he is continuing to make a limited number of<br>pieces a year while he compiles his book “The Glassmakers”, spotlighting and<br>detailing<br>the history of the pioneers in glass responsible for creating what now exists as<br>the American Glass Movement.
