Randy Strong
RANDY STRONG —Artist, designer and master craftsman has created elegant and highly sought after works in glass for over 25 years. By combining his eye for contemporary design with ancient techniques, he designs and creates works of art that are unique including one of a kind sculptures - each one signed.
Born and raised in Oakland, California Strong earned his BFA from the California College of Arts and Crafts in Oakland in 1970 and did his graduate work in Japan on a scholarship at Osaka University of the Arts.
Strong is a modern day master of this ancient craft of hand blown glass. His work is collected and displayed throughout the world in such places as the Louvre, The Osaka Museum of Art, The San Francisco Museum of Art, The John D. Rockefeller Collection and the IBM Collection.
Title: Bonsai Bowls
Medium: Glass
Size: Front 24" tall x 18 x 18
Rear 32"
tall x 19 x 19
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From Our Blog
What Lenny Loves
The Art Shop’s Inc. owner and president, Lenny Dolin, is an avid cyclist, tennis player and art lover, but unlike a lot of people who are either left brain or right brain, Lenny is also adept at debits and credits and anything to do with accounting. What makes many people’s eyes glaze over comes easily to Lenny. “I just know enough to be dangerous,” he says. Modesty aside, thank heavens he’s good at it because a businesses can’t survive without someone in control of its finances. He pays all the bills and the salaries of our incredible staff and keeps The Art Shop on a steady financial keel.
Lenny has had three careers in his life:
