Visual Artist
Doug Glovaski
Each season, Music@Menlo invites a distinguished visual artist to exhibit a selection of paintings at Menlo School throughout the festival, and showcases the artist’s work in Music@Menlo’s publications. This year we are pleased to feature Doug Glovaski.
Doug Glovaski was born in Saginaw, Michigan, in 1951 and moved to Los Gatos, California, in 1958. Although Glovaski studied art throughout high school, he did not commit to being an artist until much later in life. After several years of jobs in Silicon Valley, at the age of thirty-five, he set up a modest studio in his apartment and began to make art.
In the twenty years since, Glovaski’s work has been exhibited extensively throughout northern California, in New York City, and in Zurich, Switzerland. In 1996, he received the highly prestigious Pollock/Krasner Foundation Grant recognizing artistic merit. His work is in numerous public collections, including the Achenbach Collection at the California Palace of the Legion of Honor in San Francisco, the Fogg Museum in Cambridge, and the San Jose Museum of Art in San Jose, as well as corporate and private collections throughout the country and abroad.
Recent solo shows include Mapping Time at the San Jose Institute of Contemporary Art, and New Work at Dolby Chadwick Gallery in San Francisco. Glovaski is represented by Dolby Chadwick Gallery in San Francisco and Sears-Peyton Gallery in New York City. He lives and works in San Francisco.
Doug Glovaski’s work will be displayed on campus throughout the festival. During the Open House on Saturday, July 26, at 12:00 p.m., Cathy Kimball, Executive Director of the San Jose Institute of Contemporary Art, will lead a Café Conversation with the artist, followed by an artist’s reception, both of which are free and open to the public.