David Patchen

David Scott Patchen is an American glass artist who uses the techniques of cane and murrine in an American style. Patchen's work is internationally known primarily for a combination of intricately patterned and vibrant color combinations in large scale blown glass. His work is in many private and public collections, featured in many publications and frequently in shows such as SOFA (Sculpture, Objects and Functional Art), Chicago, ART Shanghai, COLLECT London and ART Palm Beach. His work is shown in galleries and in museums in the U.S., and Europe. Patchen was awarded an artist residency in 2010 in Seto city, Japan where his visit was covered by the local media and included lectures, demonstrations and a show of his work at the Seto City Art Museum. Based on Patchen's expertise, his book is part of the permanent collection of Giorgio Cini Foundation's Centro Studi del Vetro (Glass Study Center) library in Venice, Italy and the Rakow Library at the Corning Museum of Glass.

Patchen's work was featured in a cover article in the March/April 2016 issue of Glass Art Magazine. He has demonstrated publicly including at the Glass Art Society's international conference in 2015 in San Jose, CA and 2022 at the Tacoma Museum of Glass in Tacoma, WA and as Guest Artist at the Corning Museum of Glass in 2017 and 2022.

Born in New Rochelle, New York, Patchen resides in San Francisco, California. Primarily self-taught since 2001, he works out of Public Glass in San Francisco. Informal education included visits to the studio of Afro Celotto, maestro and former assistant to Lino Tagliapietra in Murano, Italy, and an artistic merit scholarship to the Pilchuck Glass School. Early in his career, Patchen assisted several artists including Afro Celotto and Marvin Lipofsky in creating their work.

About his work
Patchen's series include forms titled "Resistenza", "Foglio", "Parabola", "Allegro", "Bloom", "Piscine", "Ellipse" and "Spheres" which are created in murrine and/or cane. He has collaborated on sculptures with glass artists Mark Leputa in 2017, Rob Stern in 2019 and has an active collaboration with U.K. glass artist James Devereux on two series: Clovis and Quillon.

Patchen is involved in the glass arts community as Chairman Emeritus of the Board of Directors at Public Glass and is a former member of the Board of Directors, Glass Alliance of Northern California.