Sonja Blomdahl
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Sonja Blomdahl | |
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| Born | 1952 Waltham, Massachusetts |
| Nationality | American |
| Education | BFA, Massachusetts College of Art (Boston) |
| Known for | glass vessels, incalmo technique |
| Website | https://www.sonjablomdahl.com |
Sonja Blomdahl (born 1952 in Waltham, Massachusetts) is an American blown glass artist.
Education
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Blomdahl began glassmaking as an undergraduate student during the 1970s. She earned a Bachelor of Fine Arts in ceramics from Massachusetts College of Art (Boston) in 1974.[1][2][3] There she studied with glass sculptor Dan Dailey.[1] In 1976 she spent six months studying at the Orrefors glassworks in Sweden, and her work is sometimes associated with Scandinavian design.[2][4] Venetian glass master Checco Ongaro taught Blomdahl the method of double-bubble blowing (or incalmo), for which her work is well known.[4][5]
Career
[edit]In 1978, Blomdahl served as a teaching assistant at the Pilchuck Glass School (Stanwood, Washington) for Dan Dailey, where she first watched Checco Ongaro demonstrate the incalmo technique.[3] She has held teaching positions at the Pratt Fine Arts Center in Seattle; Haystack Mountain School of Crafts in Deer Isle, Maine; and the Appalachian Center in Smithville, Tennessee.[2] Blumdahl's first solo exhibition was at the Traver Sutton Gallery in Seattle in 1981.[3] She opened her own studio in Seattle in 1983,[3] which remained open until 2009.[4] Since the late 2000s, she has moved beyond the symmetrical glass vessels she is known for and worked increasingly with architectural forms.[4][6]
Collections
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- American Crafts Museum, New York[7][8]
- Boise Art Museum, Boise, Idaho
- Clinton Presidential Library and Museum, Little Rock, AR[9]
- Corning Museum of Glass, Corning, NY[10]
- Montgomery Museum of Fine Arts[11]
- Museum of Contemporary Art & Design, New York[12]
- Museum of Decorative Arts, Prague[7]
- Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA[8][13]
- Racine Art Museum, Racine, WI[14]
- Renwick Gallery, Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington DC[8][15]
Awards
[edit]2001 U.S. State Dept. Gift, presented by President Bush to the Prime Minister of Sweden
1987 Artists' Trust Fellowship Grant, Washington State
1986 NEA Visual Arts Fellowship Grant
See also
[edit]References
[edit]- ^ a b "Sonja Blomdahl". Montgomery Museum of Fine Arts. Retrieved 7 May 2015.
- ^ a b c "Sonja Blomdahl | Smithsonian American Art Museum". Retrieved 3 March 2017.
- ^ a b c d Waggoner, Shawn (March–April 2000). "Sonja Blomdahl: "Queen of Symmetry"". Glass Art: 4–6.
- ^ a b c d O'Donnell, Paul (Spring 2010). "Glass Ceiling Broken". Modern Magazine: 116–121.
- ^ "Sonja Blomdahl (1952-)". Invaluable. Invaluable, LLC. Retrieved 7 May 2015.
- ^ Balach, Sonja (2007). "Maintaining the Fire: The Art of Sonja Blomdahl". World Art Glass Quarterly. 3: 6–13.
- ^ a b Morowitz, Kane (April–May 1990). "Fire It Round". Glass Collector's Digest: 18–26.
- ^ a b c Fantoni, Georgina. GlassArt 2002. p. 61.
- ^ "The White House Collection of American Crafts". Mint Museum of Craft + Design. Traditional Fine Arts Organization, Inc. Retrieved 1 February 2016.
- ^ "Collections Browser: Sonja Blomdahl". Corning Museum of Glass. Retrieved 1 February 2016.
- ^ "Sonja Blomdahl". Montgomery Museum of Fine Arts. The Montgomery Museum of Fine Arts. Retrieved 18 June 2015.
- ^ "Sonja Blomdahl". Museum of Arts and Design. Retrieved 1 February 2016.
- ^ "Pink/Clear/Blue". Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. Retrieved 1 February 2016.
- ^ "Spectrum: Contemporary Artists in Color". Racine Art Museum. Retrieved 1 February 2016.
- ^ "Sonja Blomdahl". Smithsonian American Art Museum and the Renwick Gallery. Smithsonian Institution. Retrieved 1 February 2016.
External links
[edit]- Sonja Blomdahl - official website
- Sonja Blomdahl at Island Press, Kemper Museum at Washington University in St. Louis
Further reading
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- Biskeborn, Susan. Artists at Work: Twenty-Five Northwest Glassmakers, Ceramists, and Jewelers. Anchorage: Alaska Northwest Books, 1990.
- Bullock, Margaret E., and Rock Hushka. Best of the Northwest: Selected Works from Tacoma Art Museum. Tacoma: Tacoma Art Museum, 2012.
- Della, James. Glass, the James Della Collection. [San Francisco]: James Della, 2012.
- Koplos, Janet. "Matters of Mood: The Glass of Sonja Blomdahl." Glass, no. 59 (Spring 1995): 34-41.
- Miller, Bonnie J. "A Meditation of Bowls: Sonja Blomdahl and Her Art." Neues Glas, no 4 (1986): 266-267.
- Nichols, Sarah C., and Davira Spiro Taragin. Contemporary Directions: Glass from the Maxine and William Block Collection. Pittsburgh, Penn: Carnegie Museum of Art, 2002.
- Yelle, Richard Winfred. Glass Art from UrbanGlass. Atglen, PA: Schiffer, 2000.
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