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Dorothy Hafner

Mozambique

Sonia

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Statement
Dorothy Hafner, glass artist, ceramist and industrial designer, combines her contemporary artistic sensibility with an exuberant palette and idiosyncratic approach to pattern and shape. Straddling the line between design and fine art, she has become an innovative talent working in glass after years as a leading edge voice in ceramics.

Hafner's graphic and vibrant glass panels and vessels evoke a buoyancy and lyricism which are exaggerated through the smoothness, translucency and inherent color saturation of the glass. The panels, consisting of multiple fused layers, convey vast dimension, both technically and conceptually due to the painstaking complexity of the process.

Hafner's works are in many major collections, including the Corning Museum of Glass, Corning NY, the Cooper Hewitt Museum, NYC, the Brooklyn Museum, NYC, the Musee des Arts Decoratifs, Montreal, the Museum voor Hedendaagse Kunst, Hertogenbosch, the Netherlands, the American Crafts Museum, NY, and the Norton Museum in Palm Beach.

Profile

Museum Collections
Corning Museum of Glass, Corning, NY
Mint Museum of Art, Charlotte, NC
Cooper Hewitt Museum, New York
Brooklyn Museum, New York
Los Angeles County Museum
Victoria & Albert Museum, London
Museum fur Kunst und Gewerbe, Berlin
Museum voor Hedendaagse Kunst, Hertogenbosch, the Netherlands
American Craft Museum, New York
Norton Museum of Art, Palm Beach
Everson Museum of Art, Syracuse
Musee des Arts Deocratifs, Montreal
J. Patrick Lannan Foundation, Palm Beach, FL
Gracie Mansion, NY
Newark Museum, New Jersey
 
Selected Museum Exhibitions
2001 "US DESIGN, 1975-2000", Denver Art Museum, Denver, CO
2000 "Women Designers in the USA, 1900-2000: Diversity and Difference," Bard Graduate Center for the Decorative Arts, New York, NY
"Alan Chasanoff Ceramic Collection", Mint Museum of Craft & Design, Charlotte, NC
"Tabletop to TV Tray: China & Glass in America 1880-1980", Dallas Museum of Art, TX, and Newark Museum, NJ.
1999 "Clearly Inspired; Contemporary Glass and Its Origins", Tampa Museum of Art, FL (traveled)
1996 "New Glass Review, 1996", Corning Museum of Glass, Corning, NY
1995 "Wit and Delight," Musee de Arts Decoratifs, Montreal (traveled)
1992-4 "More Than One: Comtemporary Studio Production," American Craft Museum, New York (traveled)
1990-3 "Art that Works: Decorative Arts of the '80s, Crafted in America," traveling exhibition org. by Art Services Intl. Alexandria, VA
1989-91 "Design USA" traveling exhibition org. by U.S. Information Agency
1987-89 "American Ceramics Now," Everson Museum of Art, Syracuse (traveled)
 
Selected Honors & Awards
Fellissimo Design Award, NY Foundation for the Arts, 1997
First Prize, First International Tabletop Award, Natl Tabletop Assn., Dallas, 1988
Design Excellence, Struttgart Design Center Award, Stuttgart, 1988
Design Excellence Stuttgart Design Center Award, Stuttgart, 1987
Fellowship, New York Foundation for the Arts, 1986
 
Selected Books and Exhibition Catalogs:
American Craft Museum, MORE THAN ONE, (exhib. cat.), 1992
Amie Ahn, Park So-young, Shin soo-hye, NOUVEL OBJECT VI, Design House Inc., Korea, 2001
Clark, Garth, AMERICAN CERAMICS, 1876 TO THE PRESENT, Abbeville, 1987
Levin, Elaine, HISTORY OF AMERICAN CERAMICS (cover), Watson-Guptill, 1984
Kirkham, Pat, WOMAN DESIGNERS IN THE USA, 1900-2000: DIVERSITY AND DIFFERENCE, Bard Graduate Center, Yale University Press, New Haven and London, 2000
Roberson Center for the Arts & Sciences, ANCIENT INSPIRATIONS/CONTEMPORARY INTERPRETATIONS, Syracuse, NY (exhib. cat.), 1982
Yelle, Richard, GLASS ART FROM URBAN GLASS, Schifflin Art Books, 2000
Whitehouse, David, THE CORNING MUSEUM OF GLASS, A DECADE OF COLLECTION, (cover) 1990-1999, Abrams Publishers, 2000
Wolk, Michael, DESIGNING FOR THE TABLE, DECORATIVE & FUNCTIONAL PRODUCTS (cover), PBC Intl, 1992

 

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