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Loy Allen is a South Dakota native who returned to the Black Hills after studying design at Southern Illinois University at Carbondale (B.A., 1975). After learning basic lampworking in South Dakota, Ms. Allen studied advanced glass techniques at the Penland School of Crafts in North Carolina and at The Studio at the Corning Museum of Glass in New York. She has been self-employed as a flameworker since 1979. |
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Shows and Invitations 2007: Mint Museum of Craft and Design Auction November 2007: Glassified; Group Glass Exhibition 2006: Mint Museum of Craft and Design Benefit 2005: National Liberty Museum Auction January 2005: Goblets 2005 Invitational August 2004: Glass on the Wall Invitational August 2003, The Art of Fine Craft June 2002, Glass Flower Event April 2001, James Renwick Alliance Craft Auction February 2000: Flameworked Glass Show January - March 2000: The Artistry of Orchids September 1999: Glass Invitational July 1999: Invitational Goblet Show June 1999: Glass Invitational April 1999: Cool Women, Hot Glass July 1998: Clearly South Dakota; group glass show September, 1997: Juried Exhibition June 1996: Group Show 1995-1999: American Craft Council Shows
Awards Rushmore Honors Award for Excellence in the Arts |
My inspiration comes from the natural world, the hills and plains of Dakota. Stylistically, I am inspired by the art of the Art Nouveau Age. Like the artists of that time, I am interested in a depiction of plant and animal life in a pantheistic spirit. My natural forms are meant to be expressive without being strictly realistic. I hope my work evokes the mystery and power of nature in a feminine, celebratory voice.
Publications in which Loy Allen's work has appeared "The Lampworked Glass of Loy Allen"; Murray Bloom Contemporary Glass: Color, Light And Form; Leier, Peters and Wallace (Guild Publishing), p. 62 Contemporary Lampworking (Third Edition, Vol. 1); Bandhu Dunham, pps. 113, 147, 228 Formed of Fire: Contemporary Selections in Lampworked Glass; Bandhu Dunham Flameworking: Creating Glass Beads, Sculptures and Functional Objects; Elizabeth Ryland Mears (Lark Books)
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