Esoteric Survey

MARVIN LIPOFSKY & GARRY KNOX BENNETT:  CALIFORNIA LOOPS AND ELECTROPRINTS FROM BERKELEY AND OAKLAND, 1967-1970 The Landing at Reform
In the 1970 book Objects:USA, Lipofsky is referred to as the Peter Voulkos of glass. 
California Loop, blown glass with flocking, 1970 
Sandblasted blown glass, copper plating, 1969

The show includes a great display of ephemera 



Gerard O'Brien with Marvin Lipofsky, at Marvin's Berkeley studio. Garry Knox Bennett “Boxed Lightning – Red” Electroprint, 1974
Garry Knox Bennett Self Portrait Electroprint, 1974 The Bennett pieces were really hard to take pictures of.  It's better to see them in person anyway. They are on display through Sept. 14th.

MARVIN LIPOFSKY & GARRY KNOX BENNETT:  CALIFORNIA LOOPS AND ELECTROPRINTS FROM BERKELEY AND OAKLAND, 1967-1970
The Landing at Reform
Opening reception: Thursday, Aug. 1st, 7-9:30 PM On display: Aug. 1st - Sept. 14th
Gary Knox Bennett

Sheridan Piece Robert Strini: Fluidity in Wood On view at The Landing at Reform



Sheridan Piece in Craft Horizons
Robert Strini: Fluidity in Wood is at the Landing until June 29th
Andrew Bergloff pots at Reform
James Wayne on Design Line. 
Paul Tuttle

Robert Strini: Fluidity in Wood Opening Reception: Thursday, April 11th, 6 - 9 pm  On Display: April 11th - July 13th The Landing at Reform

Robert Strini's work is in the permanent collections at the Smithsonian, the Oakland Museum of Art and  the University of Virginia Art Museum, among many others.
Along with The Landing opening, The Window, Object, Galerie Half and the other furniture, art and design galleries located near Highland and Melrose will be open as part of Open Door Thursday. This is the first event put on by the Highrose Art and Design district.

The new Myrton Purkiss show atThe Landing in Reform is up. If you don't know Purkiss there's a little background on him here.
This has got to be the largest showing of work by Purkiss since the 1950s.   Gerard has been squirreling this stuff away for a very long time. 
Myrton didn't just do plates.


This is the one from the 1952 exhibition, 6000 Years Art in Clay. 




There's some great ephemera on view as well. 
Peter Loughreyfrom LAMA came by to check out the Purkiss exhibition too. After a conversation about Myrton's career change from ceramics to landscape architecture, Peter pointed out how  the plate below looks exactly like a landscape plan.  

Myrton Purkiss: Paintings on Clay, 1930 - 1960 The Landing at Reform On Display: February 7th - March 28th

Myrton Purkiss: Paintings on Clay, 1930 - 1960 The Landing at Reform Opening Reception: Thursday, February 7th, 6 - 9 pm On Display: February 7th - March 28th

For the second show at The Landing, Gerard O'Brien is reaching into his private stash of ceramics by Myrton Purkiss. Originally from Canada, Purkiss ended up calling Fullerton, California home. He studied under Glen Lukens at Fullerton High School and at USC.  He was drafted into the allied forces in WWII and served as a cartographer in Europe where he extended his interest in ceramics by visiting potters in England and France. As a 29 year-old veteran, Purkiss returned to Fullerton and opened a small ceramics shop in his backyard.  Mryton's form of choice was the hand-painted plate.  That form was transformed into a clay painting with an addition of a looped wire on the back after a woman commented that his plates were too nice to use. Soon after, Purkiss was being included in major ceramics exhibition, including the Scripps…