CARY RAPAPORT

Lier, Belgium

SELECTED EXHIBITIONS

Flameworked glass, ceramics and other media

2024

  • Piet Staut 2024 Klein Sculptuur, Cortewalle Castle, Beveren, East Flanders, Belgium

2023

  • Oh Beautiful Glass!, Barnes Gallery at Leverett Crafts & Arts, Leverett MA

  • The Alchemy of Art, Florida CraftArt, St. Petersburg FL

  • Creating with the Fourth State of Matter: Plasma Artists in the Studio, Plasma Art Alliance and the Glass Art Society, Detroit MI

  • Light up the World, Sandwich Museum of Glass, Sandwich MA

2022

  • Oh Beautiful Glass!, Barnes Gallery at Leverett Crafts & Arts, Leverett MA

  • Glass Perspectives, Newburyport Art, Newburyport MA

  • Stories from the Earth, Umbrella Arts Center, Concord MA

2021

  • Oh Beautiful Glass!, Barnes Gallery at Leverett Crafts & Arts, Leverett MA

  • Light on the Horizon, Plasma Art Alliance and the Glass Art Society, Virtual exhibition

2020

  • 2020 Solo Exhibition Planetary Porcelain, Nerikomi Sculpture by Cary Rapaport, Bromfield Gallery, Boston MA

  • Identity, Art Fluent, Virtual exhibition

  • For the Love of Earth, Arts Wayland W Gallery, Wayland MA

  • A Flowering of Hope, Plasma Art Alliance, Virtual exhibition

  • PRISM, Beacon Street Gallery, Brookline MA

2019

  • RAA&M National Juried Show, Rockport Art Association & Museum, Rockport MA

  • Oh Beautiful Glass!, Barnes Gallery at Leverett Crafts & Arts, Leverett MA

  • Repetition, Replication, Variation, Loading Dock Gallery, Lowell MA

  • Through the Surface, 6 Bridges Gallery, Maynard MA

  • Sacred Spaces, Morini Gallery, Mansfield MA

  • The Bowl Show, Worcester Center for Crafts, Worcester MA

  • Motion, The Armory Café, Somerville MA

2018

  • Jamaica Plain Open Studios, Jamaica Plain MA

  • Allston Open Studios, Boston MA

  • Fay Chandler Emerging Art Exhibition, Scollay Square Gallery at Boston City Hall, Boston MA

2016

  • All Fired Up: Contemporary Clay Sculpture, Piano Craft Gallery, Boston Massachusetts

  • Art100, Piano Craft Gallery, Boston Massachusetts

  • Spring Show and Sale, Feet of Clay Studio, Brookline Massachusetts

2015

  • Art100, Piano Craft Gallery, Boston Massachusetts

2014

  • Art100, Piano Craft Gallery, Boston Massachusetts

  • Spring Show and Sale, Feet of Clay Studio, Brookline Massachusetts

  • Winter, NAVE Gallery, Somerville Massachusetts

CURATORIAL PROJECTS

2023 Organizer and video editor of film, Creating with the Fourth State of Matter: Plasma Artists in the Studio, for the Plasma Art Alliance and the Glass Art Society 2023 Conference. The film was presented for the conference at Detroit Film Theatre, Detroit MI.

2021 Organizer and video editor of film, Light on the Horizon, for a virtual exhibition of the Plasma Art Alliance

2016 Co-curator of exhibition, All Fired Up: Contemporary Clay Sculpture, Piano Craft Gallery, Boston MA

GRANTS & AWARDS

2020 SOLO2020 Competition Winner, for a solo exhibition at Bromfield Gallery, Boston MA

2018 Opportunity Fund Grant, Boston Cultural Council, Mayor’s Office of Arts and Culture 

  

EDUCATION

2011 Bachelor of Fine Arts, School of the Museum of Fine Arts at Tufts University, Boston MA

SELECTED PROFESSIONAL POSITIONS, TRAINING AND ACTIVITIES

2018-2023 Studio assistant for Wayne Strattman, Strattman Design, Boston MA

2023 Attended the Science of Glassblowing Class, taught by Sally Prasch, University of Massachusetts Amherst

2019-present Committee Member of the Plasma Art Alliance

2013-2023 Artist member of Feet of Clay, a cooperative ceramic studio, Brookline MA

2020 Taught workshop Creating Patterns with Colored Clay at Feet of Clay ceramic studio, Brookline MA

2016-2017 Assistant administrator and curator, Piano Craft Gallery, Boston MA

2017 Attended Colored Clay (Nerikomi) Workshop, taught by Chris Campbell, Spruill Center for the Arts, Atlanta Georgia

2011-2013 Studio assistant, Katherine Houston Porcelain, Boston MA

PUBLICATIONS

2024 Ceramic and glass sculpture “What She Wields” featured in KleiGalerij section of KLEI Keramiek Magazine September-October issue. (Netherlands).

2023 Glass Art Society Journal article about film presentation for the Plasma Art Alliance.

Creating with the Fourth State of Matter: Plasma Artists in the Studio, The Glass Art Society Journal, 118-119

2022 Co-author of peer-reviewed research paper about the Voynich Manuscript.

Koen Gheuens and Cary Rapaport. Above and Beyond Voynich Canopies: Tents as a Recurring Motif in Beinecke MS 408. Proceedings of the 1st International Conference on the Voynich Manuscript 2022. University of Malta

CONTACT

cary.rapaport@gmail.com