Danny Perkins has been studying the art of glass blowing for the past twenty years, which includes an apprenticeship with Lino Tagliapietra before becoming a teaching assistant to both Paul Marioni and Dan Dailey at the Pilchuck School. Perkins also participated as an Artist in Residence at Pilchuck. His gorgeous towering glass vessels involve a unique technique that employs blowing glass into a wooden mold, cutting the glass, reassembling the pieces, and then sandblasting the final vessel to a matte finish before airbrushing color onto the surface. The result is both luminous and electric.

"I am a student of the abstract expressionists in the sense that my work is based on emotions rather than representational references. Creating sculpture is the connection between my psyche and body. First it is a physical and group effort to blown and form my large fluid glass forms. Then a solitary and intimate process of breaking them. The colors with the forms I use are emotion, they are love, sex, god, pain and joy. I have developed relationships with the colors over the years, so when I paint the shards the colors have faces that I know intimately..." artist statement

EDUCATION
1985 Pilchuck Glass School, Lino Tagliapietra, Stanwood WA
1982 John Lewis Glass Production
1979 Henry Sums, Glass Production

SELECTED COLLECTIONS
Jack Benaroya, Seattle WA
Bonneville Power Administration, Portland OR
Judy Cornfield, Hollywood FL
Corning Museum of Glass, Corning NY
Anne Gould - Hauberg, Seattle WA
Hyatt Regency Hotel, New York NY
Elton John, Atlanta GA
McAllen International Museum, McAllen TX
MCI, Washington DC
Microsoft Corporation, Seattle WA
National Museum of American Art, Renwick Gallery (Smithsonian), Washington DC
Oakland Museum of Art, Oakland CA
Price Waterhouse, Phoenix AZ
Jerry Rose, Atherton CA
George Saxe, Palo Alto CA
Taco Bell Corporation, Irvine CA
Tampa Museum of Art, Tampa FL
Toledo Museum of Art, Toledo OH

PUBLICATIONS
2005 Glass Magazine, Spring
2004 The Artisan Northwest, Debra Jensen
2004 Contemporary International Glass, Jennifer Hawkins Opie
2003 The Columbus Dispatch, Jacqueline Hill
1996 American Craft, "Danny Perkins," Matthew Kangas, Feb/Mar
1994 Habatat Glass, "State of Art," Habatat Gallery
1992 Out of Glass, Bonnie Miller
1990 The New York Times, December
1989 Contemporary Glass, Susanne K. Franze