CUD – John Drury & Robbie Miller

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The artistic duo  CUD, John Drury & Robbie Miller  were artists in residence at S12 in May 2014.

During their residency, they arranged a community project, creating a mosaic mural, bottle bences and more. In addition they prepared an exhibition for the Gallery.

Originally from Ohio, John Drury currently lives with his wife and children in Brooklyn, NY.  He is a graduate of the MFA program at the Ohio State University and was a founding trustee of the public access facility Glass Axis, in the 1980´s. John was awarded a Louis Comfort Tiffany Foundation Award for the Visual Arts (1997), has taught and lectured throughout the US and Internationally at the Pilchuck Glass School; The Glass Furnace, Istanbul; The Museum of Glass in Tacoma; Urban Glass NYC and Glass Art Society Conferences 36, 40 and 42. Mr Drury is a regular contributor to both Glass and Neues Glas magazines.

In 1988 John Drury and Robbie Miller of Vancouver began an extensive body of conceptually based work that they sign under the joint moniker CUD. Well known for his whimsical Duck series and a name from the short-list of who ́s who from the early days of the Studio Glass Movements held in Seattle, Robbie Miller was a key player during the more-intimate days of early Chihuly blows, the Pilchuck Glass School and the infamous Bubba-Mavis Gallery. Also a longtime employee of Ben Moore Incorporated, Robbie has assisted in the creation of artworks by glass legends Dale Chihuly, Lino Tagliapietra, Dick Marquis, Dan Dailey, Richard Royal and countless others. Robbie ́s blown glass forms based on commercially manufactured shapes are a dose of sly intervention, though historically grounded, metaphorically containing the challenges of each day.

In 2018, Drury and Miller will celebrated 30 years of collaboration.

Alli Hoag assisted CUD in the workshop and worked with them on the community projects together with the artist Maria A. Frantzsen.

Dates:  May 2014
CUD – John Drury & Robbie Miller | S12 Galleri og Verksted