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Dubhe Carreno Gallery
118 N. Peoria St. 2nd Floor
Chicago, IL 60607
312-666-3150 Tel.
info@dubhecarrenogallery.com
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September 11-November 7, 2009
Grand Opening Exhibition
(Gallery’s new location in Chicago’s West Loop)
Lunate, 2009, 15" x 10" diameter, cast porcelain
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Sunday, Nov. 8 at 11:00 am
Closing reception and brunch at the gallery during
SOFA Chicago
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service” from the Craft Orga-
nization Development Asso-
ciation. CER F also got a
$75,000 grant from the Nathan
Cummings Foundation for
spearheading the Coalition for
Artists’ Preparedness and
Emergency Response, (craft
emergencv.org'). ■■ Heath Ce-
ramics, the California pottery
begun by Edith Heath in 1948
and lately reinvigorated by
new owners Robin Petravic
and Catherine Bailey, was a
finalist for one of the Cooper-
Hewitt National Design Mu-
seum’s 2009 National Design
Awards, in the Corporate and
Institutional Achievement
category (the prize ultimately
went to the Walker Art Cen-
ter). In July First Lady Mi-
chelle Obama hosted a White
House luncheon for the final-
ists and winners, who will be
feted in New York City dur-
ing National Design Week
October 18-24. (www.nation
aldesignawards.org).
.. The
modernist metalsmith Flor-
ence Resnikoff has been made
an honorary lifetime member
of the Northern California
Enamel Guild, one of just four
in the group’s history. A pro-
fessor emerita at California
College of the Arts and a
state-designated Living Trea-
sure of California, Resnikoff
recently had three of her piec-
es—a pin and pendant from
the 1980s and a bowl made in
2004—acquired for the perma-
nent collection of the Smith-
sonian’s Renwick Gallery.
Passings
Otto Heino, an iconic Califor-
nia designer-craftsman known
for his earthy pottery and leg-
endary collaboration with liis
wife, Vivika, died July 16. The
son of Finnish immigrants,
Heino enrolled on the G .I. Bill
in a pottery class taught by
Vivika Timeriasieff at the
League of New Hampshire
Arts and Crafts. Married in
1950, the couple produced and
taught ceramics on the East
and W est coasts before set-
tling in 1973 in Ojai, CA. Mar-
tha Drexler Lynn wrote in her
American Craft review of a
1996 exhibition of their work
at the Frank Lloyd Gallery,
“In their adherence to the ide-
al that ‘what you give away
you keep forever,’ they exem-
plified an openness and acces-
sibility in both their produc-
tion and way of life that was
at the heart of the midcentury
studio craft movement.” The
Heinos were made Fellows of
the American Craft Council
in 1990. After Vivika’s death
in 1995, Otto famously suc-
ceeded in perfecting a rare
yellow glaze, said to have been
lost from ancient China, that
the two had labored for years
to reformulate. He once said,
“I wanted a person to see a pot
and know it was a good potter
that made it, [that] he knew
his glazes and he knew how
to fire, so it’s a complete, hon-
est pot.”
Dorothy Weiss, a dealer
who showcased some of the
best sculptural ceramics and
glass by contemporary artists
for over 25 years in San Fran-
cisco, died May 30 at her home
in Piedmont, CA, at the age
of 89. She was a partner in the
gallery Meyer Breier Weiss
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T rujillo photo/Joseph Ferraro.
