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Marvin Lipofsky Was an American glass artist who helped reinvent the challenging material of glass through experiments in scale, color, and technique. Lipofsky studied ceramics at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign before turning to glass in graduate school at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. He was one of the six students that Studio Glass founder Harvey Littleton instructed in a program at the University of Wisconsin-Madison in the fall of 1962 and spring of 1963. He was a central figure in the dissemination of the American Studio Glass Movement, introducing it to California through his tenure as an instructor at the University of California, Berkeley, and the California College of Arts and Crafts.
SF/Arts Curator Insight
Berkeley's Marvin Lipofsky (1938-2016) is remembered in both a small solo show of flower forms at SF's jewel box House of Seiko gallery and a full-blown retrospective at Sacramento's Crocker Art Museum (March 9 - August 17, 2025). Stretching the boundaries of glass making, Lipofsky incorporated copper, mirroring, and paint to produce artworks addressing cultural and political issues. Some of his anti-Vietnam pieces resemble tombstones or unexploded ordinance. I find the "California Loop" series most intriguing. Made throughout the seventies, these sculptures entwine brightly colored, sometimes sandblasted glass, with metal, paint, and rayon flocking to form shapes that join the organic and the industrial. They look like spare parts extracted from an imaginary machine that manufactures the natural world.
Mark Taylor
SF/Arts Curator
House of Seiko
Founded by Cole Solinger and Nicolas Torres in 2022 House of Seiko is in the heart of the Mission; directly next to Torres' acclaimed bar, Buddy.
Founded by Cole Solinger and Nicolas Torres in 2022 House of Seiko is in the heart of the Mission; directly next to Torres' acclaimed bar, Buddy.