Artist: John Glick
John Glick, MICHIGAN
1962-2017
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I work extensively with the potter's wheel, where many functional pieces are begun and then altered, using wooden tools (ribs) I've created. Additionally, I often hand build asymmetrical forms, some of which use dyes of my own design or an extrusion process. In the present phases of my work beginning in 2010 I am increasingly employing significant amounts of embossed textures under the slips and glazes to add yet another aspect of depth to the final appearance of many of my pots.
To accomplish this embossing process I have made several hundred tools that are used to engrave, imprint, burn and otherwise alter the surfaces of wooden panels and other implements of forming on which the clay may be rolled, pressed and enhanced.
In the final stages of making, glazing becomes my focus. With over 50 (no-lead) glazes to choose from, I overlay up to four of them sequentially, often using a wax resist technique. For me, this phase of work is a wonderful chance to touch the pieces one last time before firing the work. The pieces are then fired in one of the three kilns (reduction fire, stoneware or soda fire - each designed and built by me) and fired to 2400 degrees.
My work in the studio is enhanced and balanced by accepting a limited number of invitations to lead ceramics workshops in the U.S.A. and other countries. Additionally, I make an effort to share ideas with others through writing, lectures, and tours of my studio.
I also offer year-long artist-in-residence training periodically as a way to help young potters learn about techniques, philosophies and goals in a full-time studio pottery.
Born: Detroit, Michigan, July 1, 1938
Wayne State University B.F.A. - 1960
Cranbrook Academy M.F.A. - 1962
United States Army - 1962 - 1964
Started Plum Tree Pottery in 1964 continuing to present time
SELECTED EXHIBITIONS
2007
Craft in America: Expanding Traditions Touring portion
2006
Birmingham Bloomfield Art Center, Birmingham, MI
John Glick Looking Back/Making Now 43 Years in Clay
2005
Taipei County Yingge Ceramics Museum, Taipei, Taiwan NCECA sponsored invitational Exhibition of ceramics
2003
"Wall Works": National Juried exhibition. M. Sherrill, Juror Baltimore Clayworks, Baltimore, MD
2002
"Great Pots: Contemporary Ceramics from Function to Fantasy" Newark Museum of Art, Newark, New Jersey
2001-2002
"Poetics of Clay" Philadelphia Art Alliance. Museum of Art and Design Helsinki, Finland
2001
"Objects for Use/Handmade by Design" Invitational American Craft Museum N.Y., N.Y.
"American Shino" Invitational Babcock Galleries NY, NY and tour
"Surface Tensions" Shino Invitational, Northern Clay Center Minn, MN
COLLECTIONS: PARTIAL LISTING
Renwick Gallery, National Museum of American Art, Smithsonian
Institution, Washington, D.C., Gift of Mr. S. Hada, a Plate, 1978,
accepted in 1985. A Sculptural Vessel, 1961, Gift of Hilbert De Later,
accepted 1996
Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, California, a Bowl,
1987, a Lidded Box, 1997
GRANTS, RECOGNITIONS
1961
Louis Comfort Tiffany Grant in Ceramics
1972-1973
Louis Comfort Tiffany Grant in Apprentice Assistance Program with Rostislav Eismont
1974
National Endowment Grant for the Arts for aid in writing book on
studio potting
1977
Farmington Community Arts Council Artist in Residence Title and
Grant
Michigan Foundation for the Arts Governor’s Award
National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship Grant
1988
National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship Grant
1990
Michigan Council for the Arts, Individual Artist’s Grant
2001
American Craft Council Fellow Elected
Governors’ Michigan Artist Award Art Serve Michigan
LIST OF PUBLICATIONS by John Glick
Publications Written by John Glick
"Mentorship” “An Approach to Mentoring in Fulltime Studio Pottery
Practice” Studio Potter Magazine Vol 31, No. 2, 2003
“Down the Spinal Canal: From Herniation to Rupture” Studio Potter
Magazine Vol 29, No. 2, 2001
“Studio Management Revisited: Reflections on Working in My Studio During the Last Twenty Years,” Studio Potter Magazine, June 1992, Vol,
20, #2.
“Checking the Compass,” Part 1,2. Ceramics Monthly, Portfolio,
September/October, 1990.
“Undefeated After All These Years,” Studio Potter Magazine, June 1990,
Vol. 18, #2.
“John Glick, Surface Decoration and Direction” Ceramic Review May -
June 1988 #111.
“To Sciatica and Back. “Studio Potter Magazine, Vol. 15, No. 2, 1987.
“Reflections on New Zealand Potters. “Parts 1,2, Ceramics Monthly Magazine, April, May 1985.
“Teapot as Teapot.” Studio Potter Magazine, Vol. 13, No. 2, 1985.
“Renewal.” Studio Potter Magazine, winter, Vol. 12, No. 1, 1983.
“Studio Dinnerware.” Portfolio in The Ceramics Issue No. 13, Japanese
Publication Magazine, August 1981.
Towards Humanism in Apprenticeship” Daniel Clark Foundation Studio
Potter Magazine 1981
“Studio Dinnerware: Ceramics Monthly Portfolio, December, 1979.
“The Extruder as a Design Tool, An Expanded Usage.” Studio Potter
Magazine, summer, 1978.
“Some Proposals Concerning the Use of Waste Heat.” Studio Potter
Magazine, summer, 1975.
“Studio Management.” Studio Potter Magazine, summer, 1973, Winter,
1973 - 1974.