About this artwork
To make California Loop Series #25, Marvin Lipofsky manipulated molten glass into surprising forms and added color by coating it in vibrant flocking (dense microfibers applied using adhesive). It is one of Lipofsky’s breakout abstract glass sculptures, made early in his career. The international studio glass movement, in which artists made unique glassworks in small studios, was relatively new in the 1960s, and Lipofsky wanted to take the medium in novel directions.
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Status
- On View, Gallery 264
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Department
- Arts of the Americas
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Artist
- Marvin Lipofsky
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Title
- California Loop Series #25
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Places
- Berkeley (Object made in), United States (Artist's nationality:)
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Date
- 1969
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Medium
- Blown glass, enamel, and rayon flock
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Inscriptions
- Signed bottom, middle, etched: "M Lipofsky".
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Dimensions
- 25.4 × 43.5 × 23.4 cm (10 × 17 1/8 × 9 3/16 in.)
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Credit Line
- Gift of Marvin Lipofsky Studio, Inc.
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Reference Number
- 2023.3045
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Copyright
- © 1969 Marvin Lipofsky Studio, Inc.