Joey Kirkpatrick

American glass artist

Joey Kirkpatrick
Born	1952 (age 71–72) Des Moines, Iowa, U.S.
Education	University of Iowa, Iowa State University
Occupation(s)	Glass artist, sculptor, wire artist, educator
Partner	Flora Mace
Website	www.kirkpatrick-mace.com

Joey Kirkpatrick (born 1952)^[1] is an American glass artist, sculptor, wire artist, and educator.^[2]^[3] She has taught glassblowing at Pilchuck Glass School. Since the 1970s, her artistic partner has been Flora Mace and their work is co-signed.^[4]^[5]^[6] Kirkpatrick has won numerous awards including honorary fellow by the American Craft Council (2005).^[6]

Kirkpatrick and Mace have shared a home and art studio in Seattle, Washington and a farm in the Olympic Peninsula.^[7]

Early life and education

Joey Kirkpatrick was born in 1952 in Des Moines, Iowa.^[1] She attended the University of lowa (BFA degree, 1975); and Iowa State University (course work 1978 to 1979).^[8]

Kirkpatrick taught drawing at the Art Center in Des Moines, and used a series of dolls for the still life studies, and the same dolls became inspiration for her later work.^[7] She worked as a wire sculptor early in her creations, which is something that has also informed her later work.^[9] In 1979, Kirkpatrick met Mace through Dale Chihuly at Pilchuk Glass School in Stanwood, Washington.^[10]^[3]

Career

Kirkpatrick and Mace are known for their oversized glass fruit and their work highlighting technical glass skills.^[11]^[12] Their body of artwork has been made from diverse materials including blown glass, glass vessels, and sculptures fabricated with wood, glass, and mixed media.^[13]

Kirkpatrick and Mace have art in many public museum collections including the Portland Art Museum,^[1] Corning Museum of Glass;^[14] the Detroit Institute of Arts;^[15] the Museum of Fine Art, Boston; Seattle Art Museum;^[14] the Metropolitan Museum of Art,^[14] Krannert Art Museum,^[13] Hokkaido Museum of Modern Art, the Smithsonian American Art Museum,^[3] and Musee des Arts Decoratifs, Lausanne.^[13]

References

^ ^a ^b ^c "Joey Kirkpatrick". Portland Art Museum. Retrieved 2022-04-25.
^ Hollister, Paul (January 1984). "Gefühle—personifiziert: Arbeiten von Flora Mace und Joey Kirkpatrick / Personification of Feelings: The Mace/Kirkpatrick Collaboration". Neues Glas. pp. 14–19.
^ ^a ^b ^c "Joey Kirkpatrick". Smithsonian American Art Museum. Retrieved 2022-04-25.
^ Klein, Dan (1989). Glass: A Contemporary Art. Random House Incorporated. p. 48. ISBN 978-0-8478-1081-9.
^ "Flora Mace (aka Flora C. Mace)". Montgomery Museum of Fine Arts (MMFA). Retrieved 2022-04-25.
^ ^a ^b "Flora Mace and Joey Kirkpatrick". American Craft Council. Retrieved 2022-04-25.
^ ^a ^b "Joey Kirkpatrick". Voices in Studio Glass History, Bard Graduate Center. Retrieved 2022-04-25.
^ American Craft. Vol. 65, Issues 4-5. American Craft Council. 2005. p. 49.
^ Katz, Ruth J. (1981-05-03). "'American Glass '81' Displays 400 Works". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2022-04-25.
^ Greenberg, Jan; Jordan, Sandra (2020-05-12). World of Glass: The Art of Dale Chihuly. Abrams. p. 53. ISBN 978-1-68335-625-7.
^ Ward, Gerald W. R.; Boston, Museum of Fine Arts; Muñiz, Julie M.; Kangas, Matthew (2007). Shy Boy, She Devil, and Isis: The Art of Conceptual Craft: Selections from the Wornick Collection. MFA Publications. p. 48. ISBN 978-0-87846-720-4.
^ Fox, Howard N. (2006). Glass: Material Matters. Los Angeles County Museum of Art. p. 55. ISBN 978-0-87587-195-0.
^ ^a ^b ^c "Joey Kirkpatrick and Flora Mace". Krannert Art Museum. Retrieved 2022-04-25.
^ ^a ^b ^c "Flora Mace & Joey Kirkpatrick". Craft in America. Retrieved 2022-04-25.
^ "Fruit Still Life". Detroit Institute of Arts (DIA). Retrieved 2022-04-25.

External links

Joey Kirkpatrick at IMDb
Oral history interview with Flora Mace and Joey Kirkpatrick, 2005 August 17-18, from Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution
Video: State of the Art Studio Visits: Joey Kirkpatrick and Flora Mace by Crystal Bridges Museum

American Craft Council College of Fellows

Honorary Fellows are listed in italics.

1975