Lino Tagliapietra, Mandara, 2005, glass, Smithsonian American Art Museum, Museum purchase made possible by the American Art Forum, 2011.6, © 2005, Lino Tagliapietra, Inc.
SAAM Staff
Blog Editor
October 2, 2008
Lino Tagliapietra in Retrospect: A Modern Renaissance in Glass opens tomorrow at the Smithsonian American Art Museum's Renwick Gallery. This is the first exhibition to thoroughly examine the art of Lino Tagliapietra, widely revered as a master of glass blowing and credited with changing the course of contemporary studio glass through his teaching.
The exhibition, which features 140 works from the artist's 40-year career including objects that have never been exhibited, explores the evolution of Tagliapietra's work and we have created a slide show highlighting some of these pieces.
The artist will be speaking at the Renwick tomorrow, October 3 at noon.
