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David Scott Patchen is an American glass artist who uses the techniques of
Image:Foglio by David Patchen 5685.jpg, ''Foglio''; Blown glass sculpture by David Patchen
Image:Foglio by David Patchen5674detail.jpg, ''Foglio'' detail by David Patchen
Image:Resistenza - David Patchen 7918.jpg, Resistenza using murrine. Pieces by David Patchen are often over thirty-six inches in height.
Image: Bloom David Patchen 2114.jpg, Bloom; blown glass sculpture by David Patchen
Image:Bloom - David Patchen 9385.jpg, Bloom sculpture
Image:Foglio - David Patchen 9416.jpg, Foglio
Image:David Patchen Foglio4705.jpg, Foglio by David Patchen.
Image:Foglio by David Patchen4708detail.jpg, Detail of Patchen's murrine work composed of tens of thousands of threads.
Image:Murrine Foglio detail - David Patchen.jpg, Foglio detail
Image:Parabola - David Patchen 8677.jpg, Parabola
Image:Blown glass by David Patchen („Parabola detail”) September 27th 2011.jpg, Parabola detail
Image:Foglio - David Patchen 8979.jpg, Foglio
Image:Foglio detail - David Patchen 8990.jpg, Foglio detail
Image:Uranium Foglio - David Patchen 5349e.jpg, Foglio (Uranium glass under fluorescent light)
Image:Foglio - David Patchen 7084.jpg, Foglio
Image:Foglio detail - David Patchen 7106.jpg, Foglio detail
Image:Canework in glass sculpture - David Patchen.jpg, Sphere
Image:Piscine - David Patchen 6069.jpg, Piscine
Image:David Patchen Show - Seto City Museum of Art 683web.jpg, David Patchen's show at the Seto City Museum of Art, Aichi, Japan.
Nashville Arts Magazine: Frozen Fire: Glass Art of David Patchen, October 2012The Bold ItalicAmerican Craft Magazine; One Artist's Evolving StyleEncore! Encore! Gallery at Vienna International Art & Antiques Fair, ViennaMurrine Mystique ShowSandra Ainsley GallerySan Francisco ArtSpanLiberty Museum
{{DEFAULTSORT:Patchen, David 1966 births Artists from New Rochelle, New York Living people American glass artists Artists from California
David Scott Patchen is an American glass artist who uses the techniques of cane
Cane or caning may refer to:
*Walking stick or walking cane, a device used primarily to aid walking
* Assistive cane, a walking stick used as a mobility aid for better balance
*White cane, a mobility or safety device used by many people who are ...
and murrine
Murrine (singular: murrina) are colored patterns or images made in a glass cane that are revealed when the cane is cut into thin cross-sections. Murrine can be made in infinite designs from simple circular or square patterns to complex detailed ...
in an American style. (Cane are colored and patterned glass rods, murrine are patterned cross-sections of glass 'tiles'.) Patchen's work is known primarily for a combination of complexity and scale in densely patterned glass. His work is in many private and public collections internationally, featured in many publications and frequently in juried shows such as SOFA (Sculpture, Objects and Functional Art), Chicago, ART Shanghai and ART Palm Beach. His work is shown in galleries in the U.S., Canada and Europe. Patchen was awarded an artist residency in 2010 in Seto
Seto may refer to:
Places
* Seto, Aichi, production place of Japanese pottery and venue of Expo 2005
* Seto, Ehime, facing the Seto Inland Sea
*Seto, Okayama, adjacent to Okayama, in Okayama Prefecture
*Seto Inland Sea of Japan
* Setomaa (''Seto ...
city, Japan where his visit was covered by the local media and included lectures, demonstrations and a show of his work at the Seto City Art Museum. His work has won awards and is in both private and public collections internationally. Based on Patchen's expertise, his book is part of the permanent collection of Giorgio Cini Foundation's Centro Studi del Vetro (Glass Study Center) library in Venice, Italy and the Rakow Library at the Corning Museum of Glass
The Corning Museum of Glass is a museum in Corning, New York in the United States, dedicated to the art, history, and science of glass. It was founded in 1951 by Corning Glass Works and currently has a collection of more than 50,000 glass obje ...
.
Most significantly, his work was featured in a cover article in ''Glass Art Magazine'' in the Mar/Apr 2016 issue. He has demonstrated publicly including at the Glass Art Society's international conference in 2015 and as Guest Artist at the Corning Museum of Glass in 2017.
Born in New Rochelle
New Rochelle (; older french: La Nouvelle-Rochelle) is a city in Westchester County, New York, United States, in the southeastern portion of the state. In 2020, the city had a population of 79,726, making it the seventh-largest in the state o ...
, New York, Patchen resides in San Francisco
San Francisco (; Spanish for " Saint Francis"), officially the City and County of San Francisco, is the commercial, financial, and cultural center of Northern California. The city proper is the fourth most populous in California and 17th ...
, California. Primarily self-taught since 2001, he works out of Public Glass in San Francisco. Informal education included visits to the studio of Afro Celotto, maestro and former assistant to Lino Tagliapietra
Lino Tagliapietra (born 1934) is an Italian glass artist originally from Venice, who has also worked extensively in the United States. As a teacher and mentor, he has played a key role in the international exchange of glassblowing processes and te ...
in Murano, Italy, and an artistic merit scholarship to the Pilchuck Glass School
Pilchuck Glass School is an international center for glass art education. The school was founded in 1971 by Dale Chihuly, Anne Gould Hauberg (1917-2016), and John H Hauberg (1916-2002). The campus is located on a former tree farm in Stanwood, W ...
. Early in his career, Patchen assisted several artists including Afro Celotto and Marvin Lipofsky
Marvin Bentley Lipofsky (September 1, 1938 – January 15, 2016) was an American glass artist. He was one of the six students that Studio Glass founder Harvey Littleton instructed in a program at the University of Wisconsin-Madison in fall 1962 an ...
in creating their work.
About his work
Patchen's series include forms titled "Resistenza", "Foglio", "Parabola", "Allegro", "Bloom", "Piscine", "Ellipse" and "Spheres" which are created in murrine and/or cane. Patchen is involved in the glass arts community in San Francisco as Chairman Emeritus of the Board of Directors at Public Glass and is a former member of the Board of Directors, Glass Alliance of Northern California.Gallery
See also
* Caneworking * Glass art *Glassblowing
Glassblowing is a glassforming technique that involves inflating molten glass into a bubble (or parison) with the aid of a blowpipe (or blow tube). A person who blows glass is called a ''glassblower'', ''glassmith'', or ''gaffer''. A '' lampworke ...
*Murrine
Murrine (singular: murrina) are colored patterns or images made in a glass cane that are revealed when the cane is cut into thin cross-sections. Murrine can be made in infinite designs from simple circular or square patterns to complex detailed ...
References
External links
Nashville Arts Magazine: Frozen Fire: Glass Art of David Patchen, October 2012
{{DEFAULTSORT:Patchen, David 1966 births Artists from New Rochelle, New York Living people American glass artists Artists from California