Joey Kirkpatrick
{{Short description|American glass artist}}
{{Infobox person
| name = Joey Kirkpatrick
| birth_date = {{birth year and age|1952}}
| birth_place = Des Moines, Iowa, U.S.
| education = University of Iowa,
Iowa State University
| occupation = Glass artist, sculptor, wire artist, educator
| partner = Flora Mace
| website = {{url|http://www.kirkpatrick-mace.com/}}
}}
Joey Kirkpatrick (born 1952){{Cite web |title=Joey Kirkpatrick |url=http://www.portlandartmuseum.us/mwebcgi/mweb.exe?request=record;id=7740;type=701 |access-date=2022-04-25 |website=Portland Art Museum}} is an American glass artist, sculptor, wire artist, and educator.{{Cite news |last=Hollister |first=Paul |date=January 1984 |title=Gefühle—personifiziert: Arbeiten von Flora Mace und Joey Kirkpatrick / Personification of Feelings: The Mace/Kirkpatrick Collaboration |pages=14–19 |work=Neues Glas}}{{Cite web |title=Joey Kirkpatrick |url=https://americanart.si.edu/artist/joey-kirkpatrick-6298 |access-date=2022-04-25 |website=Smithsonian American Art Museum |language=en-US}} She has taught glassblowing at Pilchuck Glass School. Since the 1970s, her artistic partner has been Flora Mace and their work is co-signed.{{Cite book |last=Klein |first=Dan |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=_lpQAAAAMAAJ |title=Glass: A Contemporary Art |date=1989 |publisher=Random House Incorporated |isbn=978-0-8478-1081-9 |pages=48 |language=en}}{{Cite web |title=Flora Mace (aka Flora C. Mace) |url=https://collection.mmfa.org/artist-maker/info/616 |access-date=2022-04-25 |website=Montgomery Museum of Fine Arts (MMFA)}}{{Cite web |title=Flora Mace and Joey Kirkpatrick |url=https://www.craftcouncil.org/recognition/flora-mace-and-joey-kirkpatrick |access-date=2022-04-25 |website=American Craft Council |language=en}} Kirkpatrick has won numerous awards including honorary fellow by the American Craft Council (2005).
Kirkpatrick and Mace have shared a home and art studio in Seattle, Washington and a farm in the Olympic Peninsula.{{Cite web |title=Joey Kirkpatrick |url=https://exhibitions.bgc.bard.edu/studioglasshistory/artists/joey-kirkpatrick/ |access-date=2022-04-25 |website=Voices in Studio Glass History, Bard Graduate Center |language=en}}
Early life and education
Joey Kirkpatrick was born in 1952 in Des Moines, Iowa. She attended the University of lowa (BFA degree, 1975); and Iowa State University (course work 1978 to 1979).{{Cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=XxU4AQAAIAAJ |title=American Craft |date=2005 |publisher=American Craft Council |volume=65, Issues 4-5 |pages=49 |language=en}}
Kirkpatrick taught drawing at the Art Center in Des Moines, and used a series of dolls for the still life studies, and the same dolls became inspiration for her later work. She worked as a wire sculptor early in her creations, which is something that has also informed her later work.{{Cite news |last=Katz |first=Ruth J. |date=1981-05-03 |title='American Glass '81' Displays 400 Works |language=en-US |work=The New York Times |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1981/05/03/archives/american-glass-81-displays-400-works.html |access-date=2022-04-25 |issn=0362-4331}} In 1979, Kirkpatrick met Mace through Dale Chihuly at Pilchuk Glass School in Stanwood, Washington.{{Cite book |last=Greenberg |first=Jan |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=gD2pDwAAQBAJ |title=World of Glass: The Art of Dale Chihuly |last2=Jordan |first2=Sandra |date=2020-05-12 |publisher=Abrams |isbn=978-1-68335-625-7 |pages=53 |language=en}}
Career
Kirkpatrick and Mace are known for their oversized glass fruit and their work highlighting technical glass skills.{{Cite book |last=Ward |first=Gerald W. R. |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=1MHpAAAAMAAJ |title=Shy Boy, She Devil, and Isis: The Art of Conceptual Craft: Selections from the Wornick Collection |last2=Boston |first2=Museum of Fine Arts |last3=Muñiz |first3=Julie M. |last4=Kangas |first4=Matthew |date=2007 |publisher=MFA Publications |isbn=978-0-87846-720-4 |pages=48 |language=en}}{{Cite book |last=Fox |first=Howard N. |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=igo4AQAAIAAJ |title=Glass: Material Matters |date=2006 |publisher=Los Angeles County Museum of Art |isbn=978-0-87587-195-0 |pages=55 |language=en}} Their body of artwork has been made from diverse materials including blown glass, glass vessels, and sculptures fabricated with wood, glass, and mixed media.{{Cite web |title=Joey Kirkpatrick and Flora Mace |url=https://kam.illinois.edu/artist/joey-kirkpatrick-and-flora-mace |access-date=2022-04-25 |website=Krannert Art Museum}}
Kirkpatrick and Mace have art in many public museum collections including the Portland Art Museum, Corning Museum of Glass;{{Cite web |title=Flora Mace & Joey Kirkpatrick |url=https://www.craftinamerica.org/artist/flora-mace-joey-kirkpatrick-2 |access-date=2022-04-25 |website=Craft in America}} the Detroit Institute of Arts;{{Cite web |title=Fruit Still Life |url=https://www.dia.org/art/collection/object/fruit-still-life-94615 |access-date=2022-04-25 |website=Detroit Institute of Arts (DIA) |language=en}} the Museum of Fine Art, Boston; Seattle Art Museum; the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Krannert Art Museum, Hokkaido Museum of Modern Art, the Smithsonian American Art Museum, and Musee des Arts Decoratifs, Lausanne.
References
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External links
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- [https://www.aaa.si.edu/collections/interviews/oral-history-interview-flora-mace-and-joey-kirkpatrick-11940 Oral history interview with Flora Mace and Joey Kirkpatrick, 2005 August 17-18], from Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution
- Video: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0lf-xABBvZ8 State of the Art Studio Visits: Joey Kirkpatrick and Flora Mace] by Crystal Bridges Museum
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Category:Artists from Des Moines, Iowa
Category:University of Iowa alumni
Category:Iowa State University alumni
Category:American glass artists
Category:American women glass artists