Description
This gorgeous 96 page book pairs Peiser’s glass with his brief writings of resonance. All images are varnished in high gloss and placed on 120# faux parchment paper stock accompanied by text reproduced from original hand-typed pages. Each book is individually bound by hand using a special layflat binding in a hard cover. Designed and printed in North Carolina.
“Since I began with glass fifty years ago, I’ve received countless questions asking, basically, what’s it about? In that discussion I’ve tried to answer honestly and completely but I’ve always felt to have fallen short – short of the words and short of the voice that would say them. When I started to assemble this book, I began feeling much more truthful and satisfying answers to that question. I hope you will too. That these selections sorted out into something of an abridged life story was a bit of a surprise to me. It shouldn’t have been. All along I’ve said my work has been about my feelings and experiences and, over many years, what else is a life?” – Mark Peiser
Artist Info
MARK PEISER
Penland, NC
GLASS | Sculpture
Penland Affiliation | Penland Resident Artist 1967-70, Penland Instructor 1968, 1969, 1971, 1073, 1974, 1979, 1993, 2017, Penland Outstanding Artist Educator 2022
Artist Bio | Mark Peiser, an internationally known glass artist, was born in Chicago in 1938. After studying electrical engineering at Purdue University (Indiana 1955-1957), he received a Bachelor of Science in Design from the Illinois Institute of Technology (Illinois 1961). Peiser studied piano and music composition at DePaul University School of Music (Illinois 1965-1967) before attending Penland School of Craft (NC) in 1967. After just five weeks of glass classes, he became the first resident artist in glass at the school. Peiser is a founder of the Glass Art Society, of which he is now an honorary member and a leading presence in the Studio Glass Movement.
Peiser has exhibited worldwide and is in many public and private collections, including the Asheville Art Museum, the Chrysler Museum of Art, The Corning Museum of Glass, the Glasmuseet Ebeltoft, the Lucerne Museum of Art, the Milwaukee Art Museum, The Museum of Art and Design, the Peggy Guggenheim Collection, the Toledo Museum of Art, the Smithsonian American Art Museum and the Tokyo Museum of Modern Art among others.
Peiser was inducted into the College of Fellows of the American Craft Council (1988) and received the Lifetime Achievement Award from the Art Alliance for Contemporary Glass (2004), the North Carolina Governor’s Award (2009), the Lifetime Achievement Award from the Glass Art Society (2010) and the North Carolina Living Treasure Award (2011) among others.
