Kevin
O'Grady
Kevin
O’Grady began lampworking glass in 1989 while living in Santa
Fe, New Mexico. His prior experience as a silversmith and lapidary
artist helped him to quickly develop his lampworking skills. Working
glass in a flame is Kevin’s favorite artistic medium.
Primarily
known for his glass bracelets, Kevin is also accomplished in making
beads, marbles, paperweights, small platters and vessels. He is also
very well known for his detailed mastering of borosilicate murrine.
He was one of the first to pioneer this technique in his medium of
borosilicate glass and has murrine canes in the Corning Museum of
Glass in New York. Every Piece is signed and dated with a murrine
cane as well.
Aside
from the many hours he spends working glass, Kevin also teaches his
lampworking and color mixing techniques at Glasscraft in Golden, Colorado.
Kevin attends a select number of wholesale and retail art shows and
festivals. He has won awards consistently at the Scottsdale Festival
of the Arts, one of the best and most scrupulously juried art shows
in he country.
Kevin’s
work has been published in both print and video mediums and has been
featured in magazines including, “Ornament”, “Bead
and Button”, and Lapidary Journal”. His marbles are featured
in Mark Block’s most recent book on contemporary marbles. Galleries
and shops throughout the United States and Japan carry Kevin’s
work.
