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Hank Murta Adams (1956, USA)
Hank Murta Adams (1956, USA)
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Hank Murta Adams (1956, USA) 

Ned
1991
Glass; ht.25 in.

Adams was a student of Dale Chihuly at the Rhode Island School of Design graduating with a BFA in painting in 1978. He continued his education at Penland School of Crafts in North Carolina, and later, the Pilchuck Glass School in Washington. Adams has been awarded three Fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts; his work has been featured in numerous one-man exhibitions both in the US and abroad. The writer and critic, William Warmus, describes the castings of Hank Murta Adams as "beat up, injured, cobbled together, melted, blasted, cast, casted, fused, cracked, cooled, chilled out, frozen, freezing, dug out, melted out, ground down, nailed, suspended, punctured, pierced, pieced, metered, handled, groomed and tuned into a cast with real faces: ironic, sexy, distressed, cynical, deathly, hearty, funny, deathly funny, lost, limping. Limpid."

Exhibited: Glass New Concepts, Robert Kidd Gallery, Birmingham, MI, 1992.

References: Oatman, Michael. "Hank Murta Adams, Chaos and Control." Glass Magazine, Summer 2005, pp. 52- 61.

Warmus, William. "Castings: Hank Murta Adams." Glass Magazine, Spring 1997, Volume 66, pp. 34-39.
Condition
Excellent original condition.
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Hank Murta Adams (1956, USA)

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