BRI'ONI
Birth:
Sometime in the middle of
the 20th century in The Big Apple.
Education:
Fair to middling in excellent
institutions.
Art
glass background:
Bri'oni started blowing glass
in San Francisco in the late sixties and hawking it
on street corners. Just like all of the early glass
artists in this country in the 1960s, he was kinda-sorta
self-taught. He helped build the Sausalito Art Center
before moving to Hawaii in the early seventies. He spent
about 20 years there selling glass to prince and pauper
alike. He then migrated to Santa Barbara California
where he maintained a studio for ever and ever.
Museum
Acquisitions:
The White House - Permanent Collection
The Unknown Museum - Santa Barbara, California
Smithsonian Museum - Washington D.C.
Boston Museum of Fine Art - Boston, Massachusetts
Chicago Museum of Art - Chicago, Illinois
Lyman Museum - Big Island, Hawaii
Bishop Museum - Oahu, Hawaii
Bergstrom Mahler Museum - Wisconsin
Kimimila Glass Memorial Museum - Palm Harbor, Florida
Grants/Fellowships/Awards:
Bri'oni has never applied for
any. He has always found the mountains of paperwork
to be too distracting from what he knows is really important.
It should be noted however, he did receive the University
of Hawaii/Governor's Art award for $12,500.00 in 1977
without applying. Oh ya, there was the National endowment
for the Arts Grant and the Tiffany Foundation Grant
too. Basically he is too busy creating to push a pencil
on paper and apply.
Current
Galleries:
He is in galleries in every major
City in the United States of America. America loves
Bri'oni.
BRI'ONI ART
GLASS
