Dale Chihuly

Dale Chihuly (1992)

Dale Patrick Chihuly (born September 20, 1941 in Tacoma , Washington ) is an American glass artist, university professor , entrepreneur and sculptor .

Career

Chihuly Glas at the exhibition "Through the Looking Glass" at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston

Chihuly Glass in Kew Gardens

Dale Chihuly was born in Tacoma, Washington, where he attended Woodrow Wilson High School . In 1959 he enrolled at the University of Puget Sound and after a year switched to the University of Washington , where he graduated in 1965 with a bachelor's degree in interior architecture and design . During his time as a student at the University of Washington Chihuly member was he fraternity Delta Kappa Epsilon .

In 1967 Dale Chihuly graduated from the University of Wisconsin-Madison with a Masters of Science degree in glassblowing . His professor was the glass artist Harvey Littleton (1922–2013), a pioneer of the American studio glass movement . Chihuly graduated from the Rhode Island School of Design with a Masters of Fine Arts degree as a sculptor .

Equipped with a Fulbright scholarship , Chihuly was able to work as a glass blower at the Paolo Venini Manufactory on Murano near Venice in 1968 .

In the 1970s Chihuly worked with his fellow student, the light artist and architect James Carpenter .

Italo Scanga and Lino Tagliapietra were a huge influence on Chihuly. Chihuly worked with Lino Tagliapietra in 1988 on a series of works that was inspired by Venetian glass of art deco .

Dale Chihuly was head of the Glass Program at the Rhode Island School of Design in Providence USA for ten years .

Personal

Dale Chihuly at the 2010 TED conference

At the age of 15 Chihuly lost his older brother George, who died as a US Navy pilot in 1957 during a flight exercise. Nine months later, his father, who was a butcher and union leader , died of a heart attack at the age of 51. Chihuly's mother Viola Magnuson then took a job to support herself and her son. She died in 2006 at the age of 98.

While in England in 1976, Dale Chihuly was in a serious car accident on a rainy night. He was thrown through the windshield and seriously cut his face. He went blind in his left eye. After the accident, his face was stitched with 256 stitches and several plastic surgeries were necessary to restore his appearance. He has been wearing an eye patch ever since. After recovering, he continued his work as a glass blower.

After he dislocated his shoulder while doing bodysurfing in 1979 , he hired glassblowers because he was unable to do anything himself for several months. Chihuly commented on this in an interview in 2006 and explained that he later enjoyed watching it more than producing it himself, because he can take multiple perspectives on the workpiece, recognize and eliminate errors more quickly.

From 1988 to 1991 Chihuly was married to the playwright Sylvia Peto . She ended the marriage at a party the couple were invited to together with the words:

"Pat, you are aware that your wife hates you, aren't you? If not, everyone else in this room knows it. "

- Sylvia Peto

In 2005 he married Leslie Jackson Chihuly , with whom he has a son.

His team

Chihuly glass

Old Jerusalem Aish HaTorah Yeshiva Atrium

In 1991 Chihuly traveled with his team to Niijima , Japan and in 1995 to the Iittala glass factory near Nuutajarvi in Finland . Another trip was to Waterford , Ireland (known for Waterford Crystal) to work in the glass factory and then to install glasswork in and around Lismore Castle . This was followed by a trip to Monterrey , Mexico to the VitroCrisa factory .

The various series result from these work stays and the collaboration with different glass artists from different regions. The most important glass series by Chihuly include: Baskets , Persians , Seaforms , Macchia , Ikebana , Cylinders , Soft Cylinders , Venetians , Putti , Fiori , Niijima Floats and the Black Series .

Chihuly works with a team of up to 12 glass artists. Well-known names are Joey DeCamp , William Morris , Benjamin Moore , Bryan Rubino , James Mongrain , Tish Douzart , Rich Royal , Kiln Loader , Robbie Miller and Martin Blank .

Assemblages and installations made of glass have been produced in great variation and always different combinations, which can be seen at exhibitions around the world, in collections, museums, botanical gardens and foyers .

Chihuly and his team of artists were followed by cameras in the documentary Chihuly Over Venice . They also became the subject of the documentary Chihuly in the Hotshop , which was shown on American television in 2008.

Foundations

In 1971 he was a founding member of the Pilchuck Glass School in Stanwood, Washington with John Hauberg and Anne Gould Hauberg .

The HillTop Artists program in Tacoma, Washington was founded in 1994 with help from Dale Chihuly.

Chihuly Garden and Glass is a museum in Seattle that opened on May 21, 2012. Glass art by Dale Chihuly is presented there

Awards (selection)

With the honorary doctorate to 12 American universities, two grants from the National Endowment for the Arts and many other prizes Chihuly was awarded.

Exhibitions (selection)

• 2012: Exhibition at the Dallas Arboretum and Botanical Garden
• 2011: Exhibition at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
• 2009: 53rd Biennale di Venezia with the installation Mille Fiori
• 2007: creates the set for the performance of the opera Duke Bluebeard's Castle by Béla Bartók in Seattle.
• 2006: Oisterwijk Sculptuur, Oisterwijk, Netherlands

Glass sculpture by Dale Chihuly in the Royal Botanic Gardens (Kew) (2005)

• 2005: Gardens of Glass, Royal Botanic Gardens (Kew) , London .
• 2001: Victoria and Albert Museum , London
• 2000: Jerusalem 2000 24 transparent blocks of ice were piled up to form a temporary sculpture in the form of a wall.
• 1995: Chihuly Over Venice Glass objects were placed over the canals and squares of Venice.
• 1992: Chandelier , Seattle Art Museum , Seattle
• 1991: Niijima Floats , installations in Irving , Texas and Kyoto , Japan
• 1986: Dale Chihuly objets de verre , Musée des Arts décoratifs , Louvre , Paris

Publications (selection)

• 365 Days by Dale Chihuly, 2008 ISBN 978-0-810970-885
• Chihuly Gardens & Glass , Barbara Rose and Lisa C. Roberts Portland Press, 2002
• Fire by Dale Chihuly, 2006 ISBN 978-1-576841-594
• Form from Fire , by Dale Chihuly and Henry Geldzahler , 1993 ISBN 978-0-933053-069
• Chihuly Seaforms , 2010 ISBN 978-1-576841-815
• Chihuly and the Sea , by Dale Chihuly and Sylvia Earle , Portland, 1995 ISBN 978-0-960838-257

Web links

Commons : Dale Chihuly  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• Website Dale Chihuly

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Dale Chihuly Chronology accessed on May 9, 2014 (English)
2. ↑ History link: Dale Chihuly accessed on May 9, 2014 (English)
3. ↑ Diane Farris Gallery accessed May 9, 2014
4. ↑ Chihuly's biography accessed on May 9, 2014 (English)
5. ↑ NNDB, tracking the whole world Dale Chihuly in the Notable Names Database (English)
6. ↑ Jen Graves Glasshouses accessed May 9, 2014
7. ↑ Pat Conroy The death of Santini, Chapter 17, accessed on May 9, 2014
8. ↑ Biography Leslie Jackson Chihuly  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as broken. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. accessed on May 9, 2014 (English)  
9. ↑ Diane Farris Gallery accessed May 9, 2014
10. ↑ Pilchuck.com accessed on May 9, 2014 (English)
11. ↑ Diane Farris Gallery Dale Chihuly accessed on May 9, 2014 (English)
12. ↑ HillTop Artists accessed on May 9, 2014 (English)
13. ↑ Chihuly Garden and Glass accessed on May 9, 2014 (English)
14. ↑ Oisterwijk Sculptuur ( Memento from June 14, 2006 in the Internet Archive ) accessed on May 9, 2014 (Dutch)
15. ↑ Jay Cohen: Cooling a hotbed of unrest in Mideast? accessed on May 9, 2014 (English)
16. ^ Valerie Easton: Seattle Times Written with Feeling