Résumé – Michele R Gutlove, Design Studio GH, LLC www.studiogh.com
Background:
For the last 19 years, glass has been my primary artistic medium. While an undergraduate architecture student, I studied watercolor as well as structural engineering. When I discovered glass fusing, my watercolors became three-dimensional transparent sculptures, as cut slivers and fragments of glass replaced brushstrokes. Molten glass, fluidly dynamic then solidly permanent, allows deliberate and intricate layering of textures with a full spectrum palette, as opaque as obsidian, as transparent as air, or as reflective as a lake.
I work with my partner, Jeff Hoover. We are both architects, experienced in working with community groups, public agencies and the public review process, collaborating with engineers, and with the management of a large range of budgets—gallery work, art installations, and architectural commissions. He specializes in the programming and design of municipal buildings, with a concentrated focus on libraries. He has taught a course at Harvard’s Graduate School of Design, in Library Design, for the past two decades. While he is responsible for all aspects of Studio GH installation, I design, shape and fire each piece of glass.
All of my art glass projects have been delivered and installed in accordance with my clients’ schedule requirements including integration into on-going construction timelines. Any and all of my clients can be contacted as reference.
Public and Institutional Glass Art Installations and Proposals: ($6,000-$430,000)
Commissions Awarded and in Process:
“Helix Nebula” 2015 – Public Library Building Atrium, El Paso, TX
“Between Sea and Sky” 2015 – Civic/Library Building Atrium, University Place, WA
“Kuolimo” 2015 – City School Atrium, Savitaipale, Finland
“Hydrosphere”2016 New William Griffin Community Centre, N Vancouver, BC
“hyperbolic cosine” 2016 – Portland Community College, Portland, OR
Completed
“epiphany” 2015 – Montana State University, Bozeman, MT
“Estuary” 2014 – Wentworth School, Scarborough, ME
“Harbor” 2014 – VA Hospital, Palo Alto, CA
“Teeming” 2014 – Kodiak Near Island Research Facility, Kodiak, AK
“Verve” 2014 – Florida Gulf Coast University, Ft Myers, FL
“Heliozephyr” 2013 – Mt. Blue Regional High School, Farmington, ME
“Intertwined” 2013 – OSU College of Public Health, Columbus, OH
“Connected Thoughts” 2013 – Community College of Denver, Denver, CO
“Bright Day” 2013 – Western Oregon University, Monmouth, OR
“Aqua-Luminance” 2012 – Baystate Medical Center, Springfield, MA
“Random Thoughts” 2012 – Algiers Regional Library New Orleans, LA
“inklings, musings & notions” 2011 – Microbiology Ctr, UofU Salt Lake City, UT
“Emergence” 2011 – Juvenile Justice Center, Cedar Rapids, IA
“Elemental Energy” 2011 – Gainesville Regional Utilities, Gainesville, FL
“Bromeliad Sunshower” 2011 – Lauderhill City Hall, Main Lobby, Lauderhill, FL
“Suislaw Sunshower” 2010 – Corvallis-Benton County Public Library, Corvallis, OR
“Clowder Umbrage” 2008 – The Cats’ Hospital, Wellesley MA
“Menorah and Letters” 2007 – Sanctuary Art, Temple Beth Elohim, Acton, MA
“Wall of Reflection” 2005 – Lobby Art, Chabad Center, Natick, MA
“Water, Fire and Steam” 2004 – National Institute of Flamenco, Albuquerque, NM
Finalist:
“Catenary” 2014 – University of North Texas, Denton, TX
“Southern Light” 2013 – Southern Oregon University, Ashland, OR
“River and Sky” 2013 – Central Wyoming College, Riverton, WY
“Oasis” 2013 – New Mexico School for the Deaf, Santa Fe, NM
“Sun & Wind” 2011 – Denver Botanical Gardens, Denver CO
“Critters” 2010 – Musical Sculptures for NMSBVI, Albuquerque, NM
“Shattered Dreams” 2009 – Orange County ME Building, Orlando, FL
Museum and Gallery Representation and Shows:
A list of Group and Individual Gallery and Museum Exhibits
is available on request. 1997-Present
Education and Architectural Background
(Registered Architect, Massachusetts 1989)
My architectural employment and work history is available on request.
BArch – University of Oregon 1983 (summa cum laude)
Dual Major – Architecture & Structural Engineering, ASU
Résumé – Michele R Gutlove, Design Studio GH, LLC www.studiogh.com
