Ann Hollingsworth

Ann Hollingsworth Description

Hollingsworth has a deep, intuitive understanding of her material, glass. Kiln cast glass sculpture is the result of a complicated process beginning with a mold of the intended form. Hollingsworth pours wax into that mold creating a duplicate version of the form. The mold is then removed and a shell is made around the wax so that the wax can be steamed or burned away. The wax-less mold is then placed in a kiln. Glass is painstakingly added. This process can take days to accomplish. Once cool, the mold material is cleaned off and the kiln cast glass form is realized.

Ann Hollingsworth’s spiky, luminous glass nests are metaphors. Their forms, invoking the intricate, twiggy constructions assembled by hawks or eagles, are perched on greenish, icy-looking slabs of glass or rough wooden blocks, stone boulders or plinths, all of which suggest a resting place between worlds—as if these complicated masses of translucent ‘twigs’ are portals, glowing from within as the glass captures light.

From the catalog essay by Maria Porges

Ann Hollingsworth Resumé

Exhibitions

FORM AND PLACE: JANE ROSEN AND ANN HOLLIGSWORTH, SEAGER GRAY GALLERY, MILL VALLEY, CA, OCTOBER-NOVEMBER, 2013

SUMMER SALON, MATERIALS , GROUP EXHIBITION, SEAGER-GRAY GALLERY, MILL VALLEY, CA JULY 2012

CONFERENCE OF THE BIRDS, A CYNTHIA-REEVES PROJECT GROUP EXHIBITION

MANA CONTEMPORARY GALLERY, NEW JERSEY JUNE 2012- JULY2012

JOURNEY, GROUP EXHIBITION, HALF MOON BAY CA OCTOBER 2011

5TH ANNUAL DOCTORS WITHOUT BORDERS EXHIBITION

BAY GROUP GLASS INSTITUTE, ANNUAL AUCTION, PALO ALTO CA 2011

PUBLIC GLASS SOLO EXHIBITION SAN FRANCISCO CA SEPTEMBER 2010 Vestiges : Water

MUSEUM OF GLASS, TACOMA WA SEPTEMBER 2010
International Juried selection for annual auction

ART OF COMPASSION, GROUP SHOW HALF MOON BAY CA. BENEFIT FOR DOCTOR’S WITHOUT BORDERS APRIL 2010
Group juried exhibition Juried by Judy Shintani

TEXAS NATIONAL 2010 INVITATIONAL APRIL THROUGH MAY 2010
Group juried national exhibition Juried by Judy Pfaff

BUCKEYE NURSERY; ART + LANDSCAPE, PETALUMA, CA - MAY 2006
Glass and earthen mound installation, Scattered Seed Head

I.P.W. GALLERY, CALIFORNIA COLLEGE OF THE ARTS, OAKLAND, CA - JAN, 2005
Group Exhibition, The Curiosity of Cast Glass

BARNES AND NOBLE BOOKS, JACK LONDON SQUARE, OAKLAND - DEC 2005
Group Sculpture Exhibit, lost stitches

A21 GALLERY, CALIFORNIA COLLEGE OF THE ARTS, OAKLAND CA - FEB, 2005
Solo Installation, Taking a Longer View

NORTH SOUTH GALLERY, COLLEGE AVE., OAKLAND, CA - APRIL, 2005
B.F.A. Exhibit California College of Arts and Crafts

Working Drawings, sketches and gestures PUBLIC GLASS, SAN FRANCISCO, CA - SPRING, 2004
Juried group exhibition, New Art, New Artists

CCA GALLERY A21, OAKLAND, CA - SPRING, 2004
Open House Group Sculpture Show, Installation “rounding a corner”

NEXUS GALLERY, BERKELEY, CA
Laying Bare/Seeking Shelter

Solo show of sculpture, drawings and installation

Collections

101 ALMA STREET CONDOMINIUM ASSOCIATION, PALO ALTO CA
MRS MARIANNE FRIEDMAN, OAKLAND CA
MRS JEAN SUMMERVILLE, CLAYTON MO.
MR JAY SUMMERVILLE, CLAYTON MO.
MARTHA SELLERS AND LUIGI SEMENZATO, OAKLAND CA
BETH AND ROBERT TRIPP, CASTRO VALLEY CA
ROBERT AND BEVERLY SERADA, OAKLAND CA
MARGARET MINOR, NEW ORLEANS, LA
MARY AND DEL NEWQUIST, ROCHESTER NY
REBECCA AND JOHN BARLOW, MISSOULA MT
FRAN MILLER AND DANIEL MCLAUGHLIN, SAN FRANCISCO, CA
MARGOT GIBNEY, OAKLAND CA

Teaching Experience

INSTRUCTOR, PUBLIC GLASS, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 2005-2007
Teaching Introduction to Kiln Cast Glass

Education

Nominated FOR EMERGING ARTIST LECTURE, 2010 GLASS ART SOCIETY

CALIFORNIA COLLEGE OF THE ARTS, OAKLAND CA 2001 – 2005
Bachelor in Fine Arts, Major: Sculpture
Emphasis on Glass Casting, Upper level work in Glass Department

PILCHUCK GLASS SCHOOL, STANWOOD, WA 2002, 2003, 2008
Kiln casting with Susan Holland
Ladle Casting with John Lewis
Hot Casting with Nancy Blair
Nominated for Corning Award 2009

CORNING MUSEUM OF GLASS, CORNING, N.Y. SUMMER, 2004
Painting the Void with Denise Stillwagon-Leone

KALA ART INSTITUTE, BERKELEY, CA SUMMER, 2003
Printmaking with Kozuko Watanabe

AMERICAN INDIAN ART INSTITUTE, SANTA FE, NM SPRING, 1998
Drawing with Ada Medina

CALIFORNIA COLLEGE OF ARTS AND CRAFTS, OAKLAND, CA FALL, 1997
Printmaking with Nance O’Bannion

FEMINIST ART COLLECTIVE, ITHACA, NY 1974
- 1975 Member

CARLTON COLLEGE, NORTHFIELD, MN 1972 - 1974
Studies towards BA, concentration in Sculpture
Organized first women’s art conference

WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF FINE ARTS, ST. LOUIS, MO1971 - 1972
Studies towards BFA