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EDUCATION:
University of Wisconsin, Madison, Bachelor of Science, 1978
Illinois State University, 1975-1976
Art Institute of Chicago, 1971-1973
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AWARDS:
2001 Pollock-Krasner
Foundation, Artist Grant
1999/2000 New York Foundation for the Arts, Artists' Fellowship
Award
1998/1999 Fulbright Fellowship, Australia
1998 NYC Department of Cultural Affairs, Percent for Arts Program
Open Doors Senior
Center
1996 Visiting Artist, Osaka Art University, Osaka, Japan
1996 Artist-in-Residence, Canberra School of Art, Canberra Australia
1993 Emerging Artist Fellowship, Empire State Craft Alliance
1991 Prix Verre Grave, "Biennale Internationale De Verre D'Art
Contemporain,"Biot France
1990 Fellowship, Creative Glass Center of America, Millville, NJ
1985 Artist-in-Residence, New York Experimental Glass Workshop,
New York, NY
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SOLO
EXHIBITIONS:
2003 Yamaki Art Gallery,
Tokyo & Osaka
2002 John Elder Gallery, New York, NY
2000 Narrative Overlay, Drill Hall Gallery, Canberra, Australia
1996 Yamaki Art Gallery, Osaka, Japan
1995 Leo Kaplan Modern, New York, NY
1994 Leo Kaplan Modern, New York, NY
1992 Leo Kaplan Modern, New York, NY
1991 Gallery Latona, Stockholm, Sweden
1989 Leo Kaplan Ltd., New York, NY
1987 New York Experimental Glass Workshop Gallery, New York, NY
Schreiber-Cutler Gallery, New York, NY
1986 Schreiber-Cutler Gallery, New York, NY
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GROUP
EXHIBITIONS:
- 2005 Viewed
Through Glass,
Heller Gallery,
New York, NY
- City Art, Center
for Architecture, New York, NY
- New Directions
in Australian Glass, Australian Embassy, Washington, DC
- 2004 Glass:
A View Within, The Arts Center, Tampa, FL
- 2003 Words,
Text, Stories, The Society of Arts and Crafts, Boston, MA
- Morgan Contemporary
Glass, Pittsburgh, PA
- The Glass Vessel,
Kentucky Museum of Arts + Design, Louisville, KY
- Glass from the collection
of Mr. & Mrs. William Block, Toledo Museum of Art, Toledo,
OH
- 2002 Group
Show, Galleri Glas Ett, Hässelby Sweden
- Glass America 2002:
red white blue, Heller Gallery, New York, NY
- Glass from the collection
of Mr. & Mrs. William Block, Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh,
PA
- 2000 Defining
Craft I, American Craft Museum, New York, NY
- Artists from the
Percent for Art Program, New York, NY
- 1999 Clearly
Inspired, Fort Wayne Museum of Art, Fort Wayne, IN
- Chihuly/Brekke:Two
Man Show, Yamaki Art Gallery, Fukuoka, Japan
- Clearly Inspired,
Tampa Art Museum, Tampa, FL
- The Erotic Series,
Nordstamp International, Delray Beach, FL
- 1998 Leopard
and Tiger Return to Mountain, Art in General, New York, NY
- 1997 Glass
Today, The Cleveland Art Museum, Cleveland, OH
- Commitments,
Brooklyn Brewery, Brooklyn, NY
- 1994 Contemporary
Glass, Craft Alliance, St. Louis, MO
- 1993/1994 Tell
Me a Story, New Delhi Triennial, New Delhi, India
- Tell me a Story,
Taft Museum, Cincinnati, OH
- 1993 Godzilla,
A New World Order III: The Curio Shop, Artists Space, New
York, NY
- Artists + Language,
the Society for Contemporary Crafts, Pittsburgh, PA
- Untitled, Yamaki Art
Galley, Osaka, Japan
- 1992 Untitled,
Carpe Diem Gallery, Paris, France
- Inaugural Glass Exhibition,
Hokin Kaufman Gallery, Chicago, IL
- 1991 Friends
of Birdyland, Carpe Diem Gallery, Paris, France
- Leo Kaplan Modern,
New York, NY
- New York Experimental
Glass Workshop, Grohe Glass Gallery, Boston, MA
- De Sable et D'Esprit,
Carpe Diem Gallery, Paris, France
- 1990 Leo Kaplan
Modern, New York, NY
- 1989 Contemporary
Glass 1989, Contemporary Crafts Gallery, Portland, OR
- The Vessel: Study
in Form and Media, Craft and Folk Art Museum, Los Angeles,
CA
- Form Over Function,
Rye Art Center, Rye, NY
- 1988 Americans
in Glass, Heller Gallery, New York, NY
- 1987 Seeing
Glass: Newhouse Gallery, Snug Harbor Cultural Center, Staten
Island, NY
- 1986 New York
Experimental Glass Workshop Gallery, New York, NY
- Schreiber-Cutler Gallery,
New York, NY
- 1985 Area X
Gallery, New York, NY
- 1982 Charles
Cowles Gallery, New York, NY
- 1980 Lakeview
Museum of Arts and Sciences, Peoria, IL
- Corning Museum of
Glass, Corning, NY
- 1978 Madison
Art Center, Madison, WI
- Elvejhem Art Museum,
Madison, WI
- Milwaukee Art Center,
Milwaukee, WI
- 1977 Columbus
Museum of Art, Columbus, OH
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SELECTED
COLLECTIONS:
Museum of Art and Design,
New York, NY
Australian National University, Canberra, Australia
Carnegie Museum, Pittsburgh, PA
Charles A. Wustum Museum of Fine Art, Racine, WI
Corning Museum of Glass, Corning, NY
Daichi Museum, Nagoya, Japan
"Kristallwelten," an Andre Heller project, Wattens, Austria
Lintas Worldwide Inc., New York, NY
Milwaukee Art Center, Milwaukee, WI
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TEACHING
EXPERIENCE:
- 2000 Canberra School
of Art, Australia National University, Canberra, Australia
Part time faculty in Hot Glass
- 1997 Bard Graduate
Center for Studies in the Decorative Arts, New York, NY
Guest lecturer in glassblowing.
- 1997 University of
Connecticut at Hartford, Hartford, Connecticut,
Guest lecturer in glassblowing.
- 1997 Urban Glass,
Brooklyn, NY
Instructor, advanced glassblowing.
- 1996 Corning Museum
of Glass -The Studio Summer Program, Corning, New York
Two week workshop in advanced glassblowing technique.
- 1996 Canberra School
of Art, Australia National University, Canberra, Australia
Workshop in Swedish "Graal" technique.
- 1990 Tyler University,
Philadelphia, PA
Guest Lecture in glassblowing.
- 1985- 1992 New York
Experimental Glass Workshop, New York, NY
Glassblowing instructor in all levels of experience
WORK
EXPERIENCE:
- 1990 - Present, Independent
Artist, working in glass, New York City, NY.
- 1983 - Present Artist
Assistant, various artists, New York City, NY
Head gaffer and glass blower for various artist in New York City.
- 1986-1997 Committee
Member and Volunteer, Urban Glass, New York, NY
Assisted with design and building of equipment (furnaces, annealers,
and glory holes),
at the New York Experimental Glass Workshop and Urban Glass. Worked
on call at
various times to trouble shoot furnace problems. Provided technical
advise to students
and visiting artists.
- 1992 Studio Builder,
St. Petersburg, FL
Designed and built hot glass studio in St. Petersburg.
- 1990 Glassblower,
Milton Glazer, New York, NY
Fabricated designer lamp shades for New York City restaurant.
- 1982-1990 Art trucker,
Waters Fine Arts Service, New York, NY
Drove truck and moved art from artist studios to galleries and
museums in the New
York City metropolitan area.
- 1983-1985 Artist Assistant
to Paul Seide, New York, NY
Glassblowing assistant to artist.
- 1980-1982 Artist Assistant
to Dennis Ashbaugh, New York, NY
Prepared and set up canvases for artist. Including stretching,
frame assembly, paint
inventory.
- 1977-1978 Studio Assistant
to Jean Vallieres, Quebec, Canada
Assisted in the building and setting up a new glass studio in
Quebec City. Helped in
the design and installation of furnaces, glory holes and annealers.
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BIBLIOGRAPHY/PUBLICATIONS
(selected):
- 2004 Detroit
Free Press Glass Show is on the Crystal Edge January 18, 2004.
- 2003 Yelle,
Richard, International Glass Art, Penn., USA Schiffer Publishing,
Ltd, 2003.
- 2002 Nichols,
Sarah and Davira Taragin, "Contemporary Glass from the Collection
of Mr. and Mrs.
William Block," Pittsburgh, PA, 2002.
- 2001 ·
Hinchliffe, Meredith, "Narrative Overlay," Vetro, no.10,
March 2001, pp. 31-33, ill.
- 2000 Brekke,
Dan, "Narrative Overlay: John Brekke," Canberra, Australia,
- .Hinchliffe, Meredith,
"A Visual Diary." The Canberra Times, June 27, 2000.
· Object, no 2:00, 2000, p. 99, ill.
- Yelle, Richard, GLASS
ART, Penn., USA: Schiffer Publishing, Ltd., 2000, pp. 27-28.
· New Glass Review 21, The Corning Museum of Glass, 2000,
p. tba, ill.
- 1999 Chambers,
Karen S. and Tina Oldknow, Clearly Inspired: Contemporary Glass
and
Its Origins, San Francisco, California: Pomegranate Communications,
1999, pp.
40, 51, 126.
- Chambers, Karen. "Clearly
Inspired: Contemporary Glass and its Origins." Neues
Glas/New Glass, no. 2, vol. 1999, pp. 36-41, ill. p. 38, in German
and English.
- 1998 Perreault,
John. "Reviews: Leopard and Tiger Return to the Mountain."
Glass (Urban Glass), no. 71, Summer 1998, p. 51, ill.
- Cotter, Holland, "Art
in Review, Empire Within," New York Times, February 20, 1998.
- Milne, Victoria, "Private
Space," John Brekke & Arlan Huang - Leopard and Tiger
Return to the Mountain, New York: Art in General, 1998.
- 1997 Glass
Today: American Studio Glass from Cleveland Collections,
Cleveland, Ohio: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1997, p. 72.
- 1995 Stone,
Grahm. "Exhibitions in Melbourne." Ausglass, Spring
1995, pp. 11-13, ill.
- "In Context:
John Brekke." Glass (Urban Glass), no. 61, Winter 1995, pp.
41-49 ill. and Cover.
- "Acquisition:
John Brekke." American Craft, vol. 55, no.1, Feb/March 1995,
p. 18, ill. vessel in American Craft Museum.
- 1994 "Reviews:
John Brekke." Glass Magazine (New York Experimental Glass
Workshop), no. 56, Summer 1994, p. 51, ill. New York exhibit.
- 1993 "ESCA
Announces 1993 Grant Recipients." Inform (Empire State Crafts
Alliance),
vol. 13, no. 4, Oct/Nov/Dec. 1993, p. 1 ill.
- New Glass Review 14,
The Corning Museum of Glass, 1993, p. 13, ill.
- 1992 "Reviews
of Exhibitions: Gyorgy Buczko, John Brekke." Glass (New York
Experimental Glass Workshop), no. 48, Summer 1992, pp. 48-49,
ill.
- "Portfolio -John
Brekke." American Craft, vol. 52, no. 3, Jun/July 1992, p.
50, ill., Graal vessels by Brekke.
- 1990 Kangas,
Matthew, "Exhibitions John Brekke." Glass (New York
Experimental Glass
Workshop) no. 41, Fall 1990, p 50, ill., New York Exhibition.
- 1988 Dodds,
Jane, "Portfolio: A Conversation with John Brekke."
New Work, no. 32,
Winter 1988, pp. 30-31, ill.
- Waggoner, Shawn, "Overlay
Engraving Cuts Beautiful Art." Glass Art Magazine,
vol. 2, no. 5, July/Aug., 1988, pp. 10-15, ill.
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