Lipofsky CALIFORNIA LOOP SERIES Poster '69 Glass

Marvin Lipofsky Exhibition Poster
Dated 1969 at the Utah Museum of Fine Arts

Condition/Details:Super scarce funky art poster to promote an exhibition of Marvin Lipofsky’s “California Loop Series” at the University of Utah from 11/9/69 to 12/7/69. This psychedelic poster shows Lipofsky’s name across the top, then within the image are two messages: “End all War!” and “Blow Glass!”. There are two credits in the upper right corner which read: “Design: E. Marc Treib” and “Drawing: Russell T. Gordon”.

In the 1970s, Lipofsky began working with subjects from popular culture, evidenced in the humorous "Great American Food Series," where pickles and hamburgers were fashioned of glass. In the "California Loop Series," Lipofsky created sensuous forms with flocking and plated glass surfaces. After graduation in 1964, Lipofsky joined the faculty of UC Berkeley, where he established the second studio glass program in the country. In 1967 he founded the glass program at the California College of Arts and Crafts in Oakland. The work of Lipofsky and his students during the 1960s and '70s made the San Francisco Bay Area one of the centers of the early studio glass movement. "Cutting-edge talent," said Oakland Mayor Jerry Brown recently, "that was Lipofsky's gift to the world." In 1970, Lipofsky began a global odyssey that would take him abroad on more than 50 journeys -- from Italy, Sweden and Poland to Taiwan and China. He was one of the first glass artists to travel to Czechoslovakia, a famed glass center to which he has returned a number of times during his career. He has worked with local artisans and materials in factory settings around the world to produce blown glass for his artworks. As a teacher, Lipofsky has trained a generation of artists who currently staff studio glass programs and operate glass studios throughout the country. He was a founder of the Glass Art Society, and has been editor of its journal. He has had more than 40 solo exhibitions and has been included in hundreds of group shows. He twice received NEA Fellowships and has been selected as an American Crafts Council Fellow and as a Living Treasure of California by the Crocker Art Museum. His work appears in more than 80 museum and corporate collections and in numerous private collections. Museums that own works by Lipofsky include, in addition to the Oakland Museum of California, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York; Museum Boymans-Van Beuningen, Rotterdam, Holland; Corning Museum of Glass, Corning, New York; Philadelphia Museum of Art, Pennsylvania; Hokkaido Museum of Modern Art, Sapporo, Japan; Los Angeles County Museum of Art, California; and the Renwick Gallery of the National Museum of American Art, Smithsonian Institution.
This poster measures approximately 14.75” by 22.75” and is original, it is not a reproduction. It shows some wear in the form of edge chips and light scattered soiling. The colors are bright and vivid, this was folded into quarters , there are no pin-holes. There are two small pieces of scotch tape along the top edge, some scuffing in the central area and a dime-sized area of loss near the right edge.

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