Michael Glancy

'Melding Impetus', glass, copper and gold sculpture by Michael Glancy, 1994, Metropolitan Museum of Art

Michael M. Glancy was born in Detroit, Michigan in 1950, and began working with glass in 1970. He received a BFA from the University of Denver in 1973 and a second BFA in sculpture from the Rhode Island School of Design in 1977. He earned an MFA in glass from the Rhode Island School of Design in 1980, where he studied with Dale Chihuly.

Glancy is a member of the adjunct faculty in the Jewelry & Metalsmithing Dept. at the Rhode Island School of Design. He has also been an invited faculty member at the Pilchuck Glass School in Stanwood, WA.

In 2003 Glancy was included in the exhibition"Fire and Form," curated by William Warmus for the Norton Museum of Art in West Palm Beach. In the book accompanying the show, Warmus wrote: "Michael Glancy magnifies nature in order to reveal its underlying structure...the flat glass panels that form sculptural bases for his artworks...unfold into and inspire the vessels that sit astride them."

His work was recently acquired for the exhibit One of a Kind: The Studio Craft Movement at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City, on display December 22, 2006-September 3, 2007. Glancy's glass and metal sculpture can be found in museum, public and private collections, worldwide.

Glancy has worked for close to 20 years with Providence Based glass artist Myles Baer. Baer has assisted with cold working techniques including engraving and sandblasting of both the glass vessels and their base plates. In addition to working with glass, Baer is also a musician and songwriter.

Glancy also collaborates with Adrianne Evans, who assists with wax mold making for casting glass and metal objects. Evans is is member of the Rhode Island School of Design faculty.

In January of 2014, Michael Glancy launched an official website, featuring his work: MichaelGlancyGlassworks.com

Glancy lives in Massachusetts with his wife and has two adult sons, is an avid gardner, sailor, and races a wooden Beetle Cat sailboat out of the Edgewood Yacht Club in Edgewood, RI.

References

• Warmus, William, "Fire and Form: The Art of Contemporary Glass", West Palm Beach: Norton Museum of Art, 2003. Distributed by the University of Washington Press.
• Glancy, Michael, Michael Glancy, Switzerland, Galerie Von Bartha, 2001.
• Glancy, Michael, Beyond Vessels: Recent Glass Work by Michael Glancy, New York, Barry Friedman, 1997.
• Glancy, Michael, Constellations an Alternative Galaxy Glass By Michael Glancy, Basel, Switzerland, Von Bartha, 1995.