WELCOME TO THE GLASS ALLIANCE OF NORTHERN CALIFORNIA
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May 2025
Crocker Art Museum Marvin Lipofsky Exhibit & de la Torre Brothers Retrospective California-based glass artist Marvin Lipofsky (1938–2016) helped reinvent the challenging material of glass through experiments in scale, color, and technique. Presenting approximately 40 artworks, Marvin Lipofsky Blows Glass includes the Crocker Art Museum’s collection of Lipofsky’s works, featuring 1960s sculptures from his California Loop Series and groupings of his signature open forms from later in the century and beyond that recall curves, shapes, and colors found in nature. Throughout his six-decade career, Lipofsky traveled to workshops worldwide, engaging in research and crafting new pieces with glass-blowing experts. His artworks serve as a testament to his journey towards deeper personal aesthetic expression and self-discovery. This exhibition will additionally feature his political sculptures and ephemera created in 1968 during the antiwar movement at the University of California, Berkeley.
--- The exhibition is a thematic retrospective on the artistic and exploratory trajectory of Einar and Jamex de la Torre, the two siblings that comprise this artistic duo known as The de la Torre Brothers. Einar and Jamex were born in Guadalajara, Mexico, in 1963 and 1960, respectively, but they have navigated life on both sides of the border since they were very young. For over three decades, the de la Torre Brothers have developed their signature style, creating colorful, mixed-media work through blown-glass sculpture, installation, and, most recently, lenticular imagery. In an over-the-top aesthetic frequently described as baroque, the pieces are at once humorous and critically earnest, manifesting influences ranging from religious iconography and German Expressionism to the sculpture of the ancient Americas and Mexican folk art. The more than 40 works presented here are a kaleidoscopic collision of imagery and meaning drawn from the Brothers’ bi-national and bi-cultural experiences.
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