Objekte von: Ginny Ruffner

1984‒1990 Lehrerin, Pilchuck Glass School, Stanwood WA; 1989 Entwürfe für die Glashütte Vistosi, Murano. Vgl. Ausst.Kat. Ginny Ruffner, Venice Works, 1989, Meyerson & Nowinski Art Associates Hrsg., Seattle 1997.

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GINNY RUFFNER

Born

1952 Atlanta, Georgia

Education

1975 M.F.A., University of Georgia, Atlanta, Georgia

1974 B.F.A., University of Georgia, Atlanta, Georgia

Selected Public Collections

American Craft Museum, New York, New York

Bergstrom Mahler Museum, Neenah, Wisconsin

Racine Art Museum, Racine, Wisconsin

Cincinnati Art Museum, Cincinnati, Ohio

Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum, Smithsonian Institution, New York, New York

Corning Museum of Glass, Corning, New York

The Detroit Institute of Arts, Detroit, Michigan

Fort Wayne Museum of Art, Fort Wayne, Indiana

High Art Museum, Atlanta, Georgia

Hokkaido Museum of Modern Art, Hokkaido, Japan

Hunter Museum of Art, Chattanooga, Tennessee

Huntington Museum, Huntington, West Virginia

Indianapolis Museum of Art, Indianapolis, Indiana

Koganezaki Glass Museum, Kamomura, Japan

Kunstmuseum, Dusseldorf, Germany

Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, California

The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, New York

The Mint Museum of Art, Charlotte, North Carolina

Musée de Design et d'Arts Appliques, Lausanne, Switzerland

Norton Museum of Contemporary Art, Palm Beach, Florida

Queensland Art Gallery, South Brisbane, Australia

Renwick Gallery of the Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington, D.C.

Seattle Art Museum, Seattle, Washington

Tacoma Art Museum, Tacoma, Washington

The Toledo Museum of Art, Toledo, Ohio

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Ginny Ruffner has long since been recognized worldwide as one of the major artists of the modern glass movement. This exhibition introduces her monumental large-scaled metal & glass sculptures. Ruffner's menagerie of glass sculptures are imbued with a combination of technical mastery and startling whimsical shapes and figures. Possessing extraordinary fine art skills, her uniquely narrative and sculptural pieces combine elements of painting, sculpture and art history. While many artists shy away from beauty and decoration, Ruffner embraces it, 'I feel like my purpose in life is to make beautiful things.'

Ruffner received both her M.F.A and B.F.A. in drawing and painting from the University of Georgia. A recipient of an N.E.A. Fellowship, Ruffner's earlier work uniquely merged the mediums of glassblowing and painting, culminating in her intricate, sculptural constructions. In 1995, the book Why Not: The Art of Ginny Ruffner, with an introduction by Arthur Danto, was published by the Tacoma Art Museum in association with the University of Washington Press. Creativity-the Flowering Tornado, a pop-up book, was published in conjunction with her 2003 solo exhibition at the Montgomery Museum of Fine Arts, Montgomery, AL. Her current sculptural work combines bronze and glass. Public collections include the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY; Renwick Gallery of the Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC and Musee des Arts Decoratifs, Lausanne, Switzerland.

Lloyd E. Herman, Smithonian Institution Traveling Exebition Service, American Glass - Masters of the Art, Washington, vor 2005