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  Dale Chihuly - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
In 2000, Dale Chihuly completed a commission from the Victoria and Albert Museum for a 30ft high, blown glass, chandelier dominating the museum's main entrance.
Chihuly lives and works at his 25,000 square foot (2300 m²) studio on Lake Union.
Since losing the vision in one of his eyes in an automobile accident in 1976, Chihuly no longer has the depth perception necessary to handle the molten glass himself.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Dale_Chihuly   (504 words)

  
 Southpinellas: Among Chihuly exhibit fans, Chihuly
Chihuly is the most famous artist in an art form known as studio glass, a movement not much older than the artist.
Chihuly, along with other studio glass artists, took glass blowing out of large foundries of mass production and into small studios where one-of-a-kind works could be wrought.
Chihuly entered the Persian Pergola, one of the most popular installations in which most visitors lie on the floor to get a better look at the hundreds of glass objects perched on the glass ceiling, downlit, casting colored light on the walls.
www.sptimes.com /2004/05/28/Southpinellas/Among_Chihuly_exhibit.shtml   (822 words)

  
 Dale Chihuly > Index Page
Chihuly has created many well-known series of works, among them the Baskets, Persians, and Seaforms, but he is also celebrated for large architectural installations.
In 1999, Chihuly mounted his most ambitious installation to date: "Chihuly in the Light of Jerusalem" where more than one million visitors attended the Tower of David Museum to view his installations.
The exhibit, "Chihuly at Kew Gardens 2005", is receiving enormous attention in the press for its exhuberant botanical forms and brilliant colors.
www.dianefarrisgallery.com /artist/chihuly   (387 words)

  
 Steinway & Sons - Steinway Pianos - The Art Case Collection - Olympia
Chihuly's reputation for avant-garde glass artistry, Olympia - Steinway by Chihuly breaks dramatic new ground in the long history of Steinway art case pianos.
Olympia - Steinway by Chihuly, unveiled at the 2002 Winter Olympics in Salt Lake City, reflects the abstract expression of wintery mountain forests juxtaposed with the bright Promethean colors idealized by the fire of the Olympic spirit.
Chihuly's first design for Steinway and Sons, officially unveiled to the public at the 2002 Winter Olympics in Salt Lake City.
www.steinway.com /steinway/artcase_collection/olympia.shtml   (235 words)

  
 Dale Chihuly: Installations   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
Everything about Dale Chihuly is outsized - his custom built equipment, his support staff of 60, the scale of his installations and the spectacular forms that push the edges of art glass beyond anything made anywhere in the world.
Chihuly enrolled in the first glass blowing program begun in the United States, studying under Harvey Littleton at the University of Wisconsin (Chihuly' s Charlotte exhibition follows a retrospective exhibition of Littleton's work at the Mint Museum of Craft + Design).
Chihuly works with a team of highly skilled glass blowers, but no longer blows glass himself as he lost depth perception in an auto accident in 1976.
www.tfaoi.com /newsm1/n1m222.htm   (1051 words)

  
 Chihuly in the Garden Bio   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
Born in 1941 in Tacoma, Washington, Chihuly was introduced to glass while studying interior design at the University of Washington.
Chihuly has created many well-known series of works, among them forms known as the Baskets, Persians, and Seaforms, but he is widely celebrated for his large architectural installations.
His most notable installations include Chihuly Over Venice (1995-96), a project that suspended chandeliers over the canals and plazas of Venice, and Chihuly in the Light of Jerusalem 2000, an installation at the Tower of David Museum of the History of Jerusalem.
www.atlantabotanicalgarden.org /chihuly/bio.htm   (371 words)

  
 Compare Prices and Read Reviews on Chihuly Projects at Epinions.com
Thankfully, Chihuly had the foresight to have the process of creation and installation documented in both still and video photography, since many of the installations are transitory and cannot be recaptured.
Chihuly bought this building on the shore of Lake Union in 1990 and he says in the catalog, it is always under change.
I've heard Chihuly speak several times and he's most fun when he gets this look on his face as his team is creating something and he says "what if?" Because this book captures the whole process of creating and installing, I feel him saying "what if?" just by looking at the pictures.
www.epinions.com /content_118353006212   (1636 words)

  
 The Chihuly Project - Oklahoma City Museum of Art   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
Chihuly couldn't think of what to call this series of works when he began it in 1981, so he called an artist friend, Italo Scanga, and asked what the Italian word for "spotted" would be.
Chihuly usually lays the background colors with a mop or a broom and draws with large gestures using the squeeze bottle paint.
Chihuly's drawings on Plexiglas are made using acrylic paints with a polyurethane base.
www.okcmoa.com /exhibits_chihulyproject.htm   (1252 words)

  
 Dale Chihuly > Chihuly in the Park: A Garden of Glass
In one of the largest and most stunning conservatories in the nation Chihuly's work is floating on water or nestled amongst picturesque gardens in nearly every room of the facility.
Chihuly's glass works include spectacular sculptures for the Bellagio Resort in Las Vegas and the Victoria & Albert Museum in London.
In 1999, Chihuly mounted his most ambitious exhibit to date: "Chihuly in the Light of Jerusalem 2000" in which he created 15 installations within the stone walls of the Tower of David Museum of the History of Jerusalem.
www.dianefarrisgallery.com /artist/chihuly/garfield/index.html   (630 words)

  
 Dale Chihuly   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
Dale Chihuly’s decades of exploring the relationship of glass and nature reach a zenith in 2002 at Chicago’s historic Garfield Park Conservatory.
Witness Chihuly at work in this 6 part high-energy documentary series, as he collaborates with his team and two of the world’s greatest glass masters on small pieces and monumental installations around the world expanding the boundaries of glass art.
Chihuly created the atmosphere and spark that inspired these brilliant artists to step out of the traditional concept of glasss and push the limits of their creativity.
www.johnmcleanmedia.com /ChiPage.html   (699 words)

  
 Heart of Glass - When folks say "art" in Seattle, they reach for their Chihuly. By Eric Scigliano
Not "Dale Chihuly." Not "glass art by Dale Chihuly." Chihuly is all you need to say, whether you're talking about a particular glass piece ("a Chihuly") or evoking the movement, the institution, the aesthetic, and the regional identity epitomized by the Northwest's (and the glass world's) most famous artist.
Dale Chihuly is the artist/celebrity who gets most of the credit for elevating glass blowing from one more craft to a bona fide--and wildly popular and lucrative--art form.
Chihuly is the natural choice for Tacoma and not just because he's a native son.
www.slate.com /id/30161   (1567 words)

  
 Span named after Chihuly   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
Chihuly, a Tacoma native, had said that naming the span after just himself would not rightfully acknowledge the contributions of the architect on the project, Arthur Andersson, said his publicist Janet Makela
In addition to the $9 million worth of art glass Chihuly donated, his name, and that of Andersson, will be prominently displayed at several sites on the bridge.
Chihuly said on his Web site he envisions the bridge as a gateway welcoming people to Tacoma, "something that has a lot of color, a joyous experience, night or day."
seattlepi.nwsource.com /local/75157_chihuly19.shtml   (606 words)

  
 Art in America: Dale Chihuly at L.A. Louver - Brief Article   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
Chihuly amassed hundreds of simple hand-blown units of various organic shapes into protean configurations of breathtaking beauty, mystery and even majesty.
Chihuly, with his acute sense of color and volume, realizes abstract Color Field practices in these extraordinary light-reflecting assemblages.
Chihuly's achievement in these works is not just generating great visual pleasure but transforming glass into a monumental material capable of withstanding even the physical demands of outdoor exposure and creating tremendous sculptural presence.
www.findarticles.com /cf_dls/m1248/3_87/54099561/p1/article.jhtml   (544 words)

  
 Dale Chihuly b   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
Dale Chihuly has for some years been a household name for our own generation, thanks to his use of glass in monumental works, the accessibility of his sculptural installations to the widest public and to the medium of television, which has brought images of Chihuly at work into millions of American homes.
Chihuly continued to teach full-time at RISD until 1980, when he re-established himself in his home state of Washington.
Chihuly's reputation as a showman in glass is due in large part to his spectacular sculptural installations.
littletoncollection.com /dale_chihuly_b.htm   (948 words)

  
 NET OnLine - Art - Dale Chihuly, Inside and Out
CHIHULY is a retrospective of the brilliance, energy, teamwork and patience that meet in the work of Dale Chihuly.
At Joslyn, Chihuly's dazzling works are on display throughout the Museum: in galleries 9, 11, and 12; the atrium; fountain court; balcony; on the lower level of the Memorial Building; and even outside on the lawn, where Chihuly installed an illuminated ice sculpture near the southeast corner of the Museum.
Chihuly often works in series, exploring the possibilities of a particular form or idea.
net.unl.edu /artsFeat/chihuly.html   (509 words)

  
 Amazon.ca: Books: Chihuly at the V&a   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
Chihuly at the V&A catalogs Seattle-based avant-garde glass sculptor Dale Chihuly's exhibition at London's Victoria and Albert Museum in 2001, his first exhibition in Britain.
Chihuly's glass is distinctive and grandly conceived, and his fame has been achieved through his growth as an artist as well as the overwhelming public response to his work.
Chihuly's oeuvre owes much to the grand tradition of Venetian glass, which the V&A represents with international standing.
www.amazon.ca /exec/obidos/ASIN/1576840174   (332 words)

  
 Chihuly   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
Chihuly's love of stone surfaces, not to mention his ambition to a monumental scale, probably owe something to the impact of this fantastic place whose major monuments are carved from the living rock.
Now I better understand Chihuly's placement of the sculptures in the Tower of David Museum: the fragile and highly colored glass is thrown into high relief against the indestructible stone walls of the fortress, smoothly liquid surfaces juxtaposed against roughly hewn rock for dramatic effect.
The color is unusual for Chihuly: more opaque than most large scale installations, and a close inspection (you'd of course have to be here to do that) reveals that the arms have been engraved with oval cuts.
www.warmus.com /chihuly.htm   (1927 words)

  
 Chihuly
Chihuly's oeuvre is notable for its vibrancy of color, the boldness of its shape and execution, and, in recent years, its studied mimicry of natural forms, from cacti to seaweed and jellyfish.
The dizzying abundance of work created by Chihuly himself and his students-cum-assistants at his Pilchuk Glass School, and the enormously successful marketing of this art (Pilchuk, located near Seattle, is open to visitors), has lead some viewers to an overfamiliarity with the work.
For Chihuly fans who may not be able to afford a Chihuly original of their own, this book is the next best thing.
www.aiap.com /0810963736.htm   (632 words)

  
 Chihuly brochure
Chihuly has crafted other works for a concurrent exhibition at the Orlando Museum of Art that complement and enhance the OMA building and space.
Chihuly often names his glass parts after words he uses with his glassblowers, as they attempt to describe the shapes they've come up through experimentation.
In 2001, Chihuly was able to unite these interests in the exhibit "Chihuly in the Park: A Garden of Glass" at the Garfield Park Conservatory in Chicago.
www.sptimes.com /2004/webspecials04/chihuly/brochure/brochure.html   (2849 words)

  
 Dale Chihuly ( - ) Artwork Images, Exhibitions, Reviews
Chihuly at the V&A will run from the V&As main entrance, in a straight line through the ground floor galleries culminating in a dramatic glass installation in the V&As Pirelli Gardens.
Installations of Chihulys work have been exhibited all over the world, yet each show is unique - a reflection of its environment and the fact that many works are...
When Chihuly first visited us two years ago he was enchanted by the fortress as a unique location for his glass art and resolved to mount an exhibiti...
wwar.com /masters/c/chihuly-dale.html   (873 words)

  
 CHIHULY DRAWING
Chihuly Drawing chronicles four decades of Dale Chihuly’s work on paper, a dynamic collection that is a fascinating study of variety.
The excitement of Chihuly’s work on paper is in its unpredictability, and that in two dimensions Chihuly is free to let his grandest schemes come to fruition.
The Drawing Section on the Chihuly website features some of the best drawings from each series, many of which are featured in the book.
www.portlandpress.net /drawing.html   (263 words)

  
 Dale Chihuly Online
The Seaform glass and the Venetian Wall are by Chihuly; some of the other works are probably not.
Chihuly's work is on display in several rooms of the building
All images and text on this Dale Chihuly page are copyright 1999-2005 by John Malyon/Artcyclopedia, unless otherwise noted.
www.artcyclopedia.com /artists/chihuly_dale.html   (273 words)

  
 Daringly Original: Dale Chihuly - Eiteljorg Museum of American Indians and Western Art - Absolutearts.com
Chihuly began working with glass in the early 1960s in a weaving class, when his teacher assigned the problem of weaving on a loom with a non-fiber material.
Chihuly chose glass, and from that moment on, he was hooked.
Chihuly is better known for his free-flowing, bold glass forms, such as the Seaform series, and installations such as “Chihuly In the Light of Jerusalem 2000” and “100,000 Pounds of Ice and Neon.” At the Eiteljorg Museum, Fire Work: The Art of Dale Chihuly will showcase Persians personally selected by Chihuly for this exhibition.
www.absolutearts.com /artsnews/2003/02/17/30757.html   (905 words)

  
 California Coastal Commission,City Council,Malibu Beaches   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
With his mop of wiry hair, trademark eye patch and paint splattered sneakers, Chihuly was greeted with the kind of awe usually reserved for rock stars.
Chihuly's crew then worked for days, carefully unloading the one-of-a-kind hand blown creations.
Chihuly said he lets his instincts be his guide.
www.malibutimes.com /articles/2004/11/24/news/news1.txt   (610 words)

  
 CHIHULY AT THE V&A
Chihuly at the V&A: A hardbound catalog to the first exhibition in the United Kingdom of Dale Chihuly's work.
Drawing on the museum's historic Renaissance collections and expertise, Chihuly at the V&A also explores the development of the traditional Venetian glass workshop and Chihuly's enormous influence in introducing Venetian glassmakers and his own inimitable variations on Venetian style to contemporary glass.
Chihuly at the V&A invites readers to marvel in the uncommon and uncompromising world of Chihuly glass.
www.portlandpress.net /chihulyatva.html   (218 words)

  
 Chihuly Notecards
Available in three selections, each set showcases a variety of Chihuly’s work, revealing the rich color and beautiful form, making a stunning notecard set.
This beautiful packet of 10 postcards captures the essence of Dale Chihuly's outdoor installations in Finland.
A number of Chihuly's drawings are also included in this set.
www.omart.org /shop/shop_online/chihuly.notecards.html   (126 words)

  
 Chihuly in the Garden Overview   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
Chihuly in the Garden, presented by Target Stores, wove together art and nature, showcasing the majesty of Dale Chihuly's glass with the inspiring plant collections of the Atlanta Botanical Garden.
The exhibition presented Chihuly's hand-blown, glass sculptures in various botanical settings including floating in ponds, suspended in air and interspersed within the Garden’s flourishing plant life.
Chihuly's spectacular creations can be found in more than 200 museums worldwide including the Metropolitan Museum of Art and the Smithsonian American Art Museum.
www.atlantabotanicalgarden.org /chihuly/overview.htm   (177 words)

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