About the Gallery
Amy Roberts Sculpture is an art gallery located upstairs in Winslow Mall on Bainbridge Island that showcases Amy Roberts' glass and mixed media artworks. Roberts work ranges in size from small tabletop pieces to large scale wall-mounted sculptures which incorporate glass, burned wood, Plexiglas, copper and natural materials. The studio and gallery combination allows for an integrated experience for collectors who wish to view the artists creative process along with finished sculptures in a gallery context. New ideas are often on view, while more considered approaches are available in more public venues.
Please note: As of September 15, 2022 the gallery has closed. A window exhibition will be on view until November 1st.
About The Artist
Amy Roberts is a mixed media artist who works with light and glass. She has a long history in the glass field, having taught at Pilchuck Glass School and worked in studios throughout the US spanning a decades-long career. Roberts' recent work pares disparate components together to reveal a relationship and hidden resonance between visual elements.
The artist lives and works on Bainbridge Island, Washington. Her sculptural work has been exhibited in galleries and museums internationally, and is included in the collections of Huntington Museum of Art, Museum of American Glass, Microsoft Corporation, and the City of Seattle, among others.
BORN
1956, United States
EDUCATION
The Cleveland Institute of Art, Cleveland, Ohio. 1974-1976
Pilchuck Glass School, with Lino Tagliapietra and Benjamin Moore
FELLOWSHIPS, GRANTS, AND AWARDS
1986 National Endowment for the Arts, Visual Artist Fellowship Grant
1983-1984 Creative Glass Center of America, Artists Fellowship. Millville, New Jersey
1981 Saxe Emerging Artist Award, Pilchuck Glass School
SELECTED EXHIBITIONS
“Revering Nature”
Bainbridge Island Museum of Art, Bainbridge Island, WA (2017)
Koch Gallery, Vashon Center for the Arts, Vashon Island, WA. (2016)
“Bellwether — Bellevue Sculpture Biennial”
Bellevue Sculpture Park and City Hall, Bellevue, WA (multiple exhibitions (2006-2014)
“Small Sculpture, Big Ideas”
The Gallery, Bainbridge Island, WA (2011)
Amy Roberts, Sharon Strauss and Karen Schminke
Bainbridge Arts and Crafts, Bainbridge Island, WA (2006)
“20/20 Vision”
Museum of American Glass at Wheaton Village, Millville, New Jersey
“Northwest Annual"
Whatcom Museum of Art, Bellingham, Washington
“Northwest Women in Glass”
Sponsored by the International Glass Museum, Tacoma, Washington
“Artists of the Creative Glass Center of America”
Gallery of American Craft, Millville, New Jersey
"Twenty Years in the Arts: Selected Works by Pratt Alumni"
Center on Contemporary Art, Seattle, Washington
"A Powerful Presence: Pilchuck Glass School's 25 Years"
Seattle Center, Seattle, Washington
"Glass Invitational"
Jeanine Cox Fine Art, Miami Beach, Florida
"Maximizing the Minimum: Small Glass Sculpture"
Museum of American Glass, Millville, New Jersey
"Pilchuck Exhibition"
William Traver Gallery, Seattle, Washington
"Progressive Art Forms of the 90's II"
Garland Gallery, Santa Fe, New Mexico
"Out of the Fire; An Exhibition of Northwest Glass"
The Glass Gallery, Bethesda, Maryland
"Seven Glass Artists: New Works"
Joanne Rapp Gallery, Scottsdale, Arizona
"The Frozen Moment: Contemporary Northwest Images in Glass"
Bellevue Art Museum, Bellevue, Washington
"Glass Invitational"
Robert Kidd Gallery, Birmingham, Michigan
"Pilchuck Glass Artists of the American Northwest"
American Embassy, Prague, Czechoslovakia
"Taking Shape: Sculptural Glass Now"
Southern Alleghenies Museum of Art, Loretto, Pennsylvania
"Poetry of the Physical"
American Craft Museum, New York, New York
"World Glass Now '88"
Hokkaido Museum of Modern Art, Sapporo, Japan
"National Invitational"
Habitat Gallery, Lathrup Village, Michigan
"Glass America"
Heller Gallery, New York, New York
"Glass from USA and Japan"
Museum Fur Gestaltung, Basil, Switzerland
"Pilchuck: The Creative Fire"
Washington State Capital Museum, Olympia, Washington
"New American Glass"
Kulterhuset, Stockholm, Sweden
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
Amy Robert Sculpture
Bainbridge Island, WA. Monthly exhibitions (2014 – present)
“Light and Line”
The Art Project, Bainbridge Island, WA. (2019)
"New Sculpture"
Joan Robey Gallery, Denver, Colorado. 1990.
"Glass Inventions, Silica Dreams: Three Northwest Artists"
San Francisco Craft and Folk Art Museum, San Francisco, CA. 1989.
"New Sculpture"
Chicago New Art Forms Exposition, Betsey Rosenfield Gallery, Chicago, Illinois. 1987.
"New Sculpture: Amy Roberts"
Traver Sutton Gallery, Seattle, Washington. 1983 & 1985.
PUBLIC COLLECTIONS
Huntington Museum of Art, Huntington, WV
Museum of American Glass, Millville, NJ
Microsoft Corporation, Woodinville, WA
City of Seattle, City Light Collection and Portable Works Collection
Seattle First National Bank, Seattle, WA
Key Bank, Portland, OR
Saks Fifth Avenue, Denver, CO
University of Arizona Art Museum, Tucson, AZ
Sheraton Hotel, Seattle, WA
State of Washington, Arts in Public Places Program
Norm Dicks Governmental Center, Bremerton, WA
PUBLICATIONS
Out of the Fire: Contemporary Glass Artists and Their Work
Bonnie Miller. Chronicle Books, San Francisco, California
Art in Context
Hobbs. Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, Inc., San Diego, California
Contemporary American Craft Art, A Collectors Guide
Barbara Mayer. Gibbs M. Smith, Inc. Salt Lake City, Utah
Monthly Craft
Seoul, Korea. December 1990
Neues Glas - Feature Article
Dusseldorf, Germany. March 1987
New Work Magazine - Cover
New York, New York. Spring 1986
New Glass Review - Number(s) 2, 7, and 11
The Corning Museum of Glass, New York
American Craft Magazine
New York, New York. October 1984
Esquire
New York, New York. November 1984
New York Times
New York, New York. February 1984
PUBLIC ART PROJECTS
Bainbridge Island Public Library, Bainbridge Island, Washington
Main entry door and windows, privately commissioned
Eagle Harbor Congregational Church, Bainbridge Island, WA
Sanctuary remodel with a glass cross and large window