| Robert Quarrick is a lifelong resident of the San Francisco Bay Area and currently makes his home in Benicia, California. He attended school in Contra Costa and San Francisco. Graduating from Diablo Valley College, where he majored in painting and ceramics, he was awarded the prestigious Norsman Award for Fine Arts. His Bachelor of Fine Arts degree is from S.F. State University where he also earned a Secondary level teaching credential. He has continued his education with graduate school classes. Although he has attended many glass workshops and seminars from well known Northern California artists and craftsmen, most of his skills in glass work are self taught. As a High School teacher, Bob developed and taught an all ceramics program for many years. In the early 1980's he became excited about the re-emergence of fusion and the fusible line of compatible glass now available. He introduced and continues to teach an all glass program to his High School students. Always an experimenter and manipulator of color and light, he enjoys playing colors against one another and uses iridescent and currently, dichroic glass, as accent points in his work. Bob established "Private Parts Studio" in 1986 where he continues to fuse and slump plates, platters, and bowls that are each one of a kind by color and/or style. His collection of plates make beautiful showcase pieces as well as exceptional serving ware. Robert Quarrick has exhibited and sold his work at galleries, museums, and shows throughout the Bay Area and the nation. |
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Being a full time Glass Instructor, I only design and produce around twenty Gallery-quality pieces per year. Ongoing visuals and statements of my work are in the permanent archives of the Corning Museum of glass in Corning, NY. I participated in the 4th, 5th, 7th, 8th, and 9th annual "A Gathering of Glass" featuring the work of over 70 national and international glass artists in Wimberley, Texas. And "West Side Story" Glasswork by artists on the West Coast in Galveston, Texas. My work was selected and featured at the 10th annual San Francisco State Alumni show. I was invited to and participate in "Astral Bodies"...an exhibition of contemporary glass, outside Denver, Colorado. I was also invited to participate in "Glass Now 2002 and 2003", a worldwide glass auction to benefit The National Liberty Museum, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. I am a member of the International Guild of Glass Artists Inc., the Glass Art Society, and Arts Benicia. |
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