DANIEL CLAYMAN
“I am in contact with my work everyday. Most days I come to the studio as the "working artist." Other days I come as an observer, to see what the "artist" is doing. The work is a continual, always evolving exploration of simple forms.
Using a vocabulary of extremely simple forms whose scale ranges from three to nine feet; these objects describe volumes in space. Some of the pieces are easily identifiable as vessels and may allude to holding volumes of water. Others are pure abstraction holding only quantities of air and space. By taking away any real solid mass, I am left with just the skins of glass, bronze or graphite that define a measure of capacity. Other objects are identifiable as a ramp ("PLANE") that divides space with a simple line or as a wheel ("CIRCULAR OBJECT ONE") that makes the center volume of air as important as the white structure itself.”
Born 1957, Lynn, Massachusetts, USA
Education 1986 B.F.A. Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, RI; University of Massachusetts, Amherst and Connecticut College, New London, CT
Daniel has been involved in the visual and performing arts since the mid 1970’s. His first formal training was as a theater and modern dance lighting designer. He began “sculpting with light” as a lighting design student and then as a visiting Lighting Designer for the Dance Department at Connecticut College in 1977. The year 1983 proved pivotal in his artistic career. After six years of working with numerous touring theater and dance companies, he enrolled in the Glass Program at the Rhode Island School of Design. Graduating with a BFA in Glass in June of 1986, Daniel made his home in the Providence, RI area where he has maintained a studio.
In 2018 Dan Clayman became the first endowed chair of glass at University of the Arts in the history of the Philadelphia institution that has one of the oldest glass programs in the U.S.
Awards
2017 Exhibition Grant, Grounds for Sculpture, Hamilton, NJ
2016 Artist in Residence, Massachusetts College of Art and Design
Project Funding, Granoff Center for the Creative Arts, Brown University, Providence
2013 Laurie Wagman Artist in Residence Research Funding, Tyler School of Art, Philadelphia
2001 Urban Glass Award; “Innovative Use of Glass in Sculpture,” Brooklyn, NY
1997 Artist's Grant, Rhode Island State Council on the Arts.
1995 Artist’s Fellowship, New England Foundation for the Arts
Artist’s Grant, Rhode Island State Council on the Arts
1989 Artist’s Grant, Rhode Island State Council on the Arts
1987 Artist in Residence, ARTPARK, Lewistown, NY
1985 St. Louis Cristalleries, France
Selected Public Collections
The Corning Museum of Glass, Corning, NY
Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
The de Young Museum, San Francisco, CA
Milwaukee Art Museum, Milwaukee, WI
The Hunter Museum of American Art, Chattanooga, TN
Museum of Arts and Design (formerly the American Craft Museum), New York, NY
Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
The Muskegon Museum of Art, Muskegon, MI
The Corning Museum of Glass, Corning, NY
Fidelity Investments, Boston, MA
First National Bank of Siam, Chicago, IL
Harvard Medical School, Cambridge, MA
The Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN
Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, New York, NY
Museum of American Glass, Wheaton Village, NJ
Museum of Art, Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, RI
The Fuller Craft Museum, Brockton, MA
The Museums of Fine Arts, San Francisco, CA
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA
The Museum of Art, Fukui, Japan
Lowe Art Museum, University of Miami, Coral Gables FL
Le Musée-Atelier du Verre de Sars-Poterie, France
National Geographic Society, Washington, DC
The Pilchuck Glass School, Stanwood, WA
Portland Museum of Art, Portland, ME
Racine Art Museum, Racine, WI
Renwick Gallery of the National Museum of American Art, Smithsonian Institution
Rockford Art Museum, Rockford, IL
St Andrew's Episcopal Church, Little Compton, RI
Tampa Museum of Art, Tampa, FL
Toledo Museum of Art, Toledo, OH
The Whitehead Institute, Cambridge, MA
Solo Exhibitions
2017 Grounds For Sculpture, Hamilton NJ
2017 Rainfield, Massachusetts College of Art and Design, Boston, MA
2008 White Light: Glass Compositions by Daniel Clayman, Museum of Glass, Tacoma, WA
2007 White Light: Glass Compositions by Daniel Clayman, Mint Museum of Craft and Design
2006 Line, Form, Shadow, Fuller Craft Museum, Brockton, MA
Selected Group Exhibitions
2016 Glass for the New Millennium, Masterworks from the Kaplan-Ostergaard Collection, Crocker Art Museum, Sacramento, CA
2015 New Space, New Light, Corning Museum of Glass, Corning, NY
Art Today: 2000-Present, New Britain Museum of American Art, New Britain, CT
Works From the Permanent Collection, Fuller Craft Museum, Brockton, MA
Summer Group Exhibition, Schantz Gallery, Stockbridge, MA
2014 Facets of Modern and Contemporary Glass, Knoxville Museum of Art, Knoxville, TN
Glass Today: 21st Century Innovations, New Britain Museum of American Art, CT
Dayton Celebrates Glass, Dayton Art Institute, Dayton, OH
2013 Through the Ages: 100 Years of RAM, Rockford Art Museum, Rockford, IL
Contemporary Glass Sculpture, Orlando Museum of Art, Orlando, FL
2012 Rodin to Now: Modern Sculpture, Palm Springs Art Museum in Palm Desert, CA
New Art For The New Century, Muskegon Museum of Art, Muskegon, MI
Evolution/Revolution, Naples Museum of Art, Naples, FL
Spark and Flame; 50 Years of Art Glass and the University of Wisconsin-Madison
2012 New Art For The New Century, Muskegon Museum of Art, Muskegon, MI
Evolution/Revolution, Naples Museum of Art, Naples, FL
Spark and Flame; 50 Years of Art Glass and the University of Wisconsin-Madison, WI
2010 Networks RI, Newport Art Museum, Newport, RI (catalogue)
2009 Trends in Contemporary Glass, Litvak Gallery, Tel Aviv, Israel
Blown Away, Flint Institute of Arts, Flint, Michigan
2004 Selections from the Esterling/Wake Collection, Marx Hausen Gallery, Concordia University, Seward, NE
2003 The Inspired Vessel, Los Angeles Municipal Art Gallery, Barnsdall Art Park, CA
Material in the Service of Form, School of Art, Kent State University, Kent, OH
2000 Salon International de la Sculpture, Delle, France
1999 Contemporary Works from the Saxe Collection, MH de Young Memorial Museum, CA
Holding Light: Contemporary Glass Sculpture, Austin Museum of Art, Austin, TX
Glass; Daniel Clayman, Flo Perkins, Laura de Santillana, Ledbetter Lusk Gallery, TN
R.I.S.D. Works: Alumni from the Glass Department at Rhode Island School of Design, RI
Providence Art Club, Providence, RI
La Galerie International du Verre, Biot, France
1997 Glass Today: American Studio Glass from Cleveland Collections, Cleveland Museum of Art
1996 Strasbourg Art Fair with La Galerie du Verrie d’Biot, Strasbourg, France
Triptychs by Gallery Artists, La Galerie International du Verre, Biot, France
1995 New Acquisitions, Museum of Art, RISD, Providence, RI
1994 Contemporary Art in Rhode Island, RISD Museum of Art, Providence, RI
1993 Thirteen Artists, Newport Art Museum, Newport, RI
New England Glass Artists, Brockton Art Museum, Brockton, MA
Group Exhibit, La Galerie International du Verre, Biot, France
1992 Glass Now ‘92, Yamaha Corporation, Japan (catalog)
Contemporary Kilnformed Glass, Contemporary Crafts Center, Portland, OR (catalog)
1991 Glass Now ‘91, Yamaha Corporation, Japan (catalog)
La Galerie International du Verre, Biot, France
Selected Commissions
2017 Rainfield, The Design and Media Center, Massachusetts College of Art and Design, Boston
2012 KL Gates, LLP, Doha, Qatar
2011 Blue Cross Blue Shield of Tennessee, Chattanooga, TN
2010 KL Gates, LLP, Dubai, UAE
2009 Swan Point Cemetery, Providence, RI
2004 Temple Beth El, Providence, RI
2002 Whitehead Institute, Cambridge, MA
2000 Starwood Wasserman, Providence, RI
1999 Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, New York, NY
1998 St. Andrew’s Episcopal Church, Little Compton, RI
1996 McAndrews, Held and Malloy, Attorneys at Law, Chicago, IL
1989 Laurence S. Rockefeller, New York, NY
1988 Harvard Medical School, Cambridge, MA
1988 Cambridge Laboratories, Cambridge, MA