Lot 823: Michael Taylor Studio Art Glass Vase

Michael Taylor (American/Tennessee, b. 1944 ) art glass sculpture vase featuring a bulbous blue-green body entwined with iridescent purple organic forms below a wide spreading lip. Incised signature to underside. 4 1/2"H x 5"W. Biography: Michael Taylor received a B.S. in art education at Tennessee State University (now Middle Tennessee State University) in Murfreesboro. He then moved to Johnson City to earn both an M.A. in sculpture and ceramics in 1968 and an M.F.A. in sculpture in 1977 at East Tennessee State University. After graduation, Taylor instructed glass making at Tusculum College in Greeneville then taught in the Visual Arts Department at Vanderbilt University, Peabody College for nine years. He then moved to New York to head the Glass Department at the Rochester Institute of Technology 's College of Imaging Arts and Sciences for twenty years. Most recently he served as a Professor at the Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Faculdade de Ciencias e Tecnologia in Portugal. His work can be found in Tennessee collections such as the Hunter Museum of American Art in Chattanooga, and the Vanderbilt University, Peabody College, and the Tennessee State Museum in Nashville. Nationally, his work is in the collections of the Museum of Arts and Design in New York, NY; National Collection of American Art, Renwick Gallery, Smithsonian Institute in Washington, D.C.; Chrysler Museum of Art in Norfolk, VA; Racine Art Museum in Racine, WI; Luce Center for American Art in Washington, D.C.; Ogden Museum of Southern Art in New Orleans, LA; Speed Art Museum in Louisville, KY; Toledo Museum of Art, OH; Mint Museum in Charlotte, NC; and the Corning Museum of Glass in Corning, NY. (Source: the Tennessee Arts Commission).

PROVENANCE: A private Nashville, Tennessee collection of contemporary craft.

CONDITION: Excellent condition.