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Individual Exhibitions

                 

2007

Habatat Galleries, Chicago, IL

 

Kunstmuseum, Kitzbühel, Austria

 

 

2006

Sculpture Site Gallery, San Francisco, CA

 

 

2005

Houston Center for Contemporary Craft, Houston, TX

 

 

2004

Gerald Peters Gallery, Santa Fe, NM

 

Hawk Gallery, Columbus, Ohio

 

 

2003

Sandra Ainsley Gallery, Toronto, Canada

 

Habatat Galleries, Royal Oak, MI

 

 

2002

Marx Saunders Gallery, Chicago, IL

 

 

2001

Chappell Gallery, Boston, MA

 

Habatat Gallery, Pontiac, MI

 

 

2000

Marx Saunders Gallery, Chicago, IL

 

1999

Heller Gallery, New York, NY

 

Habatat Galleries, Pontiac, MI

 

1998

Heller Gallery, New York, NY

 

Marx Saunders Gallery, Chicago, IL

 

William Traver Gallery, Seattle, WA

 

1997

Habatat Galleries, Pontiac, MI

 

Sanske Gallery, Zurich, Switzerland

 

Kouros Gallery, New York, NY

 

The Gerald Peters Gallery, Santa Fe, NM

 

 

1996

Heller Gallery, New York City, NY

 

Marx Saunders Gallery, Chicago, IL

 

 

1995

Troyer, Fitzpatrick, Lassman Gallery, Washington, DC

 

 

1994

Habatat Galleries, Boca Raton, FL

 

Habatat Galleries, Aspen, CO

 

 

1993

Troyer, Fitzpatrick,  Lassman Gallery, Washington, DC

 

 

1992

Habatat Galleries, Farmington Hills, MI

 

Habatat Galleries, Boca Raton, FL

 

 

1991

Rochelle Monique Gallery, San Diego, CA

 

 

1990

Habatat Galleries, Farmington Hills, MI

 

 

1988

O.K. Harris Gallery, New York, NY

 

Ann O'Brien Gallery, Washington, DC

 

 

1986

Ann O'Brien Gallery, Washington, DC

 

 

1982

Museum Bellerive, Zurich, Switzerland

 

 

1982

O.K. Harris Gallery, New York, NY

 

Gallery von Finkelstein, Hanover, West Germany

 

Gallery SM, Frankfurt A/M, West Germany

 

 

1981

80 Washington Square East Galleries, New York University, New York, NY

 

 

1980

Douglas Heller Gallery, New York, NY

 

Mandel Gallery, Los Angeles, CA

 

 

1979

O.K. Harris Gallery, New York, NY

 

Hadler Rodriques Gallery, Houston, TX

 

Just The Two Of Us, Fine Arts Gallery, University of Rhode Island, Kingston, RI

 

Hang Out, Herter Gallery, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA

 

 

1978

Glass Works, Contemporary Glass Art Gallery, New York, NY

 

 

1977

O.K. Harris Gallery, New York, NY

 

In Memory Of, Fine Arts Gallery, Murray State University, Murray, KY

 

Spilled Milk, Anyart Gallery, Providence, RI

 

 

1976

Garbage for Your Eye, Fine Art Gallery, Greenfield Community College, Greenfield, MA

 

Keep Off Sidewalk, University of Rhode Island, Kingston, RI

 

 

1975-3

O.K. Harris Gallery, New York, NY

 

Warren Benedek Gallery, New York, NY

 

Gallery G.A.P., Rome, Italy

 

 

 

 

Group Exhibitions
 

2006

Two Mediums/ Two Expressions, Springfield Art Museum, Springfield, OH

 

 

2005

Sculpting In Glass, Mary and Leigh Block Museum of Art, Evanston, IL

 

 

2004

Blown, Hook-Epstein Galleries, Houston, TX

 

Commitment 10 over 10, Marx Saunders Gallery, Chicago IL

 

Art Fair, Florida,  Habatat Galleries, Birmingham, MI

 

 

2002

Transcending Translucence, ARTS Manhattan, Long Beach, CA

 

Red as a Color for Exploration and Expression, Gerald Peters Gallery, Santa Fe NM

 

Sculpture In Glass, Walton Arts Center, Fayetteville, Arkansas

 

 

2001

Breaking the Mold: Conceptual Glass, Cleveland Center for Contemporary Arts

 

 

2001

Glass:Artist, Influence and Evolution, Habatat Galleries, Pontiac, MI

 

Arts Arts Midland:Galleries and School of theMidland Center for the Arts

 

Celebrations in Glass: Contemporary Studio Glass, Northern Indiana Arts Association, William J. Bachman Gallery, IN

 

Hot and Cool: Contemporary Glass Works J Wayne Stark University Ctr Gallery, College Station, TX, & Tyler Museum, Tyler TX, Visual Arts Center, Sioux Falls, SD, Zanesville Art Center, Zanesville Ohio, Arts & Science Center for SE Arkansas, Pine Bluff, AK, Portsmouth Museums, Portsmouth VA, Midland Center for the Arts, Midland, MI, Southern Ohio Museum, Portsmouth, Ohio, Metropolitan State College, Denver, CO

 

 

2000

Denneos Museum, Traverse City, MI

 

SOFA New York - Heller Gallery, New York, NY

 

SOFA Chicago, Marx Saunders Gallery, Chicago, IL

 

Glass: Artist, Influence & Evolution, Kreft Gallery, Ann Arbor MI

 

29th Annual International Exhibition, Habatat Galleries, Pontiac, MI

 

Buy/By Women, Morgan Contemporary Glass Gallery, Shadyside, PA

 

Millennium Glass, Kentucky Art & Craft Foundation, Louisville, KY

 

 

1999

Hot and Cool: Contemporary Glass Works, Exhibits USA 1999-2001

 

SOFA Chicago- Habatat Galleries, MI

 

28th International Exhibition, Habatat Galleries, MI ('79-'82, '87-99)

 

SOFA New York- Heller Gallery, New York, NY

 

Clearly Sculpture, Birmingham Bloomfield Art Center, MI

 

The Art of Glass: Marx Saunders Gallery, Chicago, IL

 

Women Artists from the Land of Enchantment, LewAllen Contemporary, curated by Lucy Lippard

 

Essence of Water, Fujiya HR Center, Kyoto, Japan; Aster Plaza, Hiroshima, Japan

 

 

1998

Duo, La Verrerie de Biot, Biot, France

 

SOFA New York- Marx Saunders Gallery

 

SOFA Chicago- Habatat Galleries ('89-'98)

 

Glass: A Group Exhibition, Grounds for Sculpture, Hamilton, NJ

 

Gerald Peters Gallery, Santa Fe, NM

 

 

1997

Glass Today by American Studio Artists, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA

 

Masters of Contemporary Glass: Selections from the Glick Collection, Indianapolis Museum of Art, Indianapolis, IN

 

Calido, Tucson Museum of Art, Tucson, AZ

 

SOFA, Navy Pier, Heller Gallery, NY & Habatat Galleries, MI, Chicago, IL

 

 

1967

Glass Today: Recent American Studio Glass from Cleveland Collections, The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH

 

Molten Marriage, Pilabaum Gallery, Tucson, AZ

 

Blowing Hot Cutting Cold, Lakeview Museum of Arts & Science, Peoria, IL

 

Union of Ideas, Milwaukee Art Museum, Milwaukee, WI

 

 

1996

Four Decades of Discovery, American Craft Museum, New York, NY

 

New Look-Contemporary Women Sculptors, Washington Square, DC

 

3 Views: Brock, Shaffer, Zynsky, Reilly Hawk Gallery, Columbus, OH

 

Studio Glass, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY

 

People in Glass Houses, Robert Lehman Gallery, Brooklyn, NY

 

12 x 12, Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, RI

 

35 Years of American Glass, The Philharmonic Center for the Arts, Naples, FL

 

Venezia Aperto Vetro, Museo Correr, Venice, Italy

 

Four Decades of Discovery, American Craft Museum, New York, NY

 

Sculpture: Crossing Boundaries, International Sculpture Conference, Providence, RI

 

Convergence IX, International Arts Festival, Providence Park Department, Providence, RI

 

 

1995

A Regional Survey from Maryland to Louisiana, Asheville Art Museum, Asheville, NC

 

Spring/Summer 1995, Grounds for Sculpture, Hamilton, NJ

 

Hsinchu Cultural Center, Taiwan

 

Glass America, Heller Gallery, New York, NY

 

Shidoni Gallery, Santa Fe, NM

 

Kouros Gallery, New York, NY

 

24th International Exhibition, Habatat Galleries, MI ('79-'82; '87-'95)

 

Troyer, Fitzpatrick, Lassman Gallery, Washington, DC

                   Constantine Grimaldis Gallery, Baltimore, MD

 

Spiral Gallery, Asheville, NC

 

Holsten Gallery, Stockbridge, MA (through 1993)

 

 

 

 

 

1994

 

Across Borders/Sans Frontieras, Art Museum of the Americas, Washington, DC

 

Transparanscene, Palm Beach Community College of Art, Fort Worth, FL

 

On Site: Sculpture from the Berman Atelier, Phillip and Muriel Berman Museum of Art,

 

Collegeville, PA

 

Three, Lenore Gray Gallery, Providence, RI

 

Constantine Grimaldis Gallery, Baltimore, MD

 

 

1993

Glass Installations, American Craft Museum, New York, NY

 

From Hand to Hand: The Saxe Collection, The Toledo Museum of Art, Toledo, OH

 

Our Public Image, The Hans and Walter Bechtler Gallery, Charlotte, NC

 

New Art Forms, Navy Pier, with Habatat '90 through '93, Chicago, IL

 

The 14th Annual International Invitational, Habatat Galleries, Boca Raton, FL, through 1991

 

Marx Gallery, Chicago, IL

 

Constantine Grimaldis Gallery, Baltimore, MD

 

Holsten Galleries, Stockbridge, MA

 

 

1992

Clearly Art: Pilchuck's Glass Legacy, The Whatcom Museum of History and Art, Bellingham, WA Travels through 1995

 

Cristalomancia, The Rufino Tamayo Museum, Mexico City, Mexico

 

A Personal Perspective, Nave Museum, Victoria, TX

 

Glass From Craft to Contemporary Art 1962-1992, The Morris Museum, Morristown, NJ

 

Materials and Mass, Academy of the Arts, Easton, MD

 

Collectors Eye, Rockville Arts Place, Rockville, MD

 

8th Glass Invitational, Judy Youens Gallery, Houston, TX, 1989 through 1992

 

Glass Now '92, Yamaha Corporation, Japan

 

Scale Detail, Habatat Galleries, Farmington Hills, MI, 1988 through 1992

 

 

1991

Henry Moore International Sculpture Competition, Hakone Open-Air Museum, Tokyo, Japan

 

Sight Through Touch, National Museum of Fine Arts, Rio, Brazil

 

Masters in Glass, Naples Museum, Naples, FL

 

Le Verre, Duchamp-Villon Art Space, Rouen, France

 

 

1988-90

World Glass Now, Hokkaido Museum of Modern Art, Sapporo, Japan

 

The Eloquent Object, Philbrook Art Center, Tulsa, OK (National tour includes Oakland Museum, Oakland, CA; Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA; The Orlando Museum of Art, Orlando, FL; The Virginia Museum of Art)

 

 

1989

Sculpture '89, Washington Square Partner, Washington, DC

 

Glass America, Heller Gallery, New York, NY

 

Kunsthaus am Museum, Koln, Germany

 

 

1988

New Aesthetics, Habatat Galleries, Boca Raton, FL, and 1987

 

 

1987

Annual Juried Exhibition and Invitational Show, Columbia Museum of Art and The South

 

Carolina Arts Commission, Columbia, SC

 

Sculpture Today, Old State House, Hartford, CT

 

Glass as Sculpture, Contemporary Craft Association, Portland, OR

 

 

1986

New American Glass: Focus 2, Huntington Museum, Huntington, WV

 

 

1984-86

Americans in Glass, Yawkey Woodson Art Museum, Wasau, WI

 

(International tour by LYWAM & Kunstmuseum Dusseldorf.  Includes: Museum Bellerive, Zurich, Switzerland;  Hallands Lansmuseer, Sweden; Kestner Museum, Hanover,

 

West Germany; Kunstindustriemueet, Copenhagen, Denmark; Gemeentemuseum, Amhem,

 

The Netherlands; City Art Gallery, Manchester, England; Museum for Kunsthandwerk

 

Frankfurt, West Germany; Stedelijik Museum, Amsterdam, The Netherlands.)

 

 

1985

Mary Shaffer, Chung Don-Hong, Korean Culture Center, New York, NY

 

 

1983

Sculptured Glass, Tucson Museum of Art, Tucson, AZ

 

 

1981-83

Americans in Glass, Leigh Yawky Woodson Art Museum, Wassau, WI.  (Co-sponsored with

 

Cooper-Hewitt Museum, New York, NY and The Krannert Art Museum, Champaign, IL;

 tour by AMA includes: Honolulu Academy of Arts, Honolulu, HI; Walters Art

Gallery, Baltimore, MD; Masur Museum of Art, Monroe, LA; Lowe Art  Museum,

University of Miami, Coral Gables, FL; University of Minnesota Art Gallery, Minneapolis,

MN; Anchorage Historical and Fine Art Museum, Anchorage, AK; Colorado Springs

 

Fine Arts Center, Colorado Springs, CO; Art Center Inc., South Bend, IN.)

 

 

1982

Stadt Museum, Fraunau, West Germany

 

4 Artists, 4 Views, Jesse Besser Museum, Alpena, MI

 

Premier Symposium du Verre, Musee du Verre, Sars-Poteries, France

 

Museum of Modern Art, Milan, Italy

 

Gallery Passman, Frieburg, West Germany

 

Art Gallery of Hamilton, Hamilton, Canada