Two World-Renowned Glass Artists

To Exhibit at the Duncan McClellan Gallery

Two distinctly different master glass artists will be February’s featured exhibitors at the Duncan McClellan Gallery in St. Petersburg’s Warehouse Arts District.  The grand opening of the dual exhibit will be held the weekend of February 9-11. Tim Rawlinson of London, England, and Kazuki Takizawa, a Japanese artist who grew up in Thailand and Hong Kong, will exhibit selected works during the event.

The two master artists will appear at the Duncan McClellan Gallery during their dual Exhibition Openings on Saturday, Feb. 10, from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m., followed by demonstrations in the Gallery’s hot shop between 5 and 9 p.m. as part of the McClellan Gallery’s participation in the St. Petersburg Second Saturday ArtWalk. This month’s featured exhibitors will return to the Duncan McClellan Gallery on Sunday, Feb. 11, from 12 to 4 p.m. with lectures and additional demonstrations.

The Spotlight is on Tim Rawlinson:

Tim Rawlinson was born in Bristol, England in 1985 and studied ceramics and glass at Buck’s New University, graduating in 2011. He exhibited his degree work that year at New Designers in London, where he met Peter Layton. Layton invited him to do work experience at London Glassblowing, where he ultimately became a member of the team.

His work has been prominent there since 2012, including his solo show, “Kumano Kudo,” in 2018. Tim Rawlinson’s fascination with the way light passes through glass informs his work. He exploits glass’s transparency as its primary quality through manipulating and distorting both color and form to challenge his viewers’ perception. After casting blown glass components, Rawlinson aims to capture the quality that happens when ink falls into water as the color spreads and flows onto the super-hot liquid, creating fascinating layers of light and refraction.

The Spotlight is on Kazuki Takizawa:

Kazuki Takizawa currently lives in Los Angeles, Calif. He graduated with High Honors from the University of Hawaii at Manoa in 2010. He has since worked and taught at various glass educational facilities, including Pitchuck Glass School and Public Glass, He currently owns and runs KT Glassworks LLC in the historic West Adams neighborhood of Los Angeles.

In recent years, Takizawa has been making his work in glass an opportunity to speak about his personal experiences with mental illness. His recent glass installation project, “In Between Light and Shadow,” was installed at STARworks Glass Lab in North Carolina to bring awareness to mental illness and suicide.

One of his best-known recent works, “Breaking the Silence,” was a metaphor for a person’s breaking point and the juxtaposition between balancing inner struggles with oppressive external forces around you. It features an auditory role. A video on this installation is found on Takizawa’s website (http//www.kazukitakizawa.com/videos).

Among Takizawa’s recent works are “Catharsis Contained” and “The Minimalist” series, which incorporates experimental techniques and patterning that Takizawa has never used before, and “The Container Series,” in which he explores vessel forms which are representative of people.

More on the Duncan McClellan Gallery:

The Duncan McClellan Gallery is located at 2342 Emerson Ave. S. in St. Petersburg’s Warehouse Arts District. An internationally recognized master glass artist himself, McClellan has converted a former tomato warehouse into a beautiful 10,000 sq. ft. indoor/outdoor gallery and garden. The gallery currently features works in a variety of art mediums by some of the world’s finest artists. See for yourself why the Duncan McClellan Gallery is considered Florida’s premiere glass destination.

The special February exhibitor events at the McClellan Gallery are open to the public throughout the month at no charge. For more information, call 855-436-4527.

Content provided by BMW Marketing Consultants.  All artwork belongs to the artist represented: Tim Rawlinson and Kazuki Takizawa for editorial purposes only–all right reserved. Here is one of the first stories Destination Tampa Bay had done on the Duncan McClellan Gallery here. Feature image above by Tim Rawlinson.

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