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Chihuly, Dale

Seaforms

1994

Result: 3.600,00 €
Quadripartite. Colourless glass, blown in an optic mold, applied...

(Tacoma, WA 1941; lives in Seattle, WA)

 

Dale's real forte is in sensing the value of an idea and executing it in all its permutations. He has a very good interior sense of things, so that, intuitively, in setting up an idea for a form, he develops an idea for its space as well .... Ultimately, [his work reveals] his understanding and continued respect for the vessel, not as a container, but as an incredible sort of environment.

 

Chihuly: Glass, 1982

The Seaforms seemed to come about by accident, as much of my work does—by chance. We were experimenting with some ribbed molds when I was doing the Basket series. By blowing the pieces into ribbed molds, it gave them more strength. It's sort of like corrugated cardboard—or actually, like sea shells themselves, which are very often ribbed. Then the Baskets started looking like sea forms, so I changed the name of the series to Seaforms, which suited me just fine in that I love to walk along the beach and go to the ocean. And glass itself, of course, is so much like water. If you let it go on its own, it almost ends up looking like something that came from the sea.

Chihuly



Education

 

1960-1965 University of Wisconsin, Seattle, WA (BA in Interior Design)
1965-1967 University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI (MS in Sculpture)

1967-1968 Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, RI (MFA in Ceramics)

1969           Established a glass course at RISD, Teacher for eleven years
1971           Cofounds the Pilchuck Glass School, Stanwood near seattle, WA

 

 


 

Exhibitions (Selection)

 

 

1998

The Magic of Chihuly Glass, Fukuoka Art Museum, Fukuoka, Japan

2000


Form from FireListasafn Reykjavíkur, Reykjavík, Iceland
Naples Museum of Art, Naples, Florida

Chihuly: Masterworks in Glass
JamFactory Contemporary Craft and Design, Adelaide, Australia

2003

Chihuly Seaforms

Mary Brogan Museum of Art and Science, Tallahassee, Florida
Southwest School of Art & Craft, San Antonio, Texas

Chihuly: The George R. Stroemple Collection Lakeview Museum, Peoria, Illinois

2009

Chihuly Reimagined Franklin Park Conservatory, Columbus, Ohio

Making Worlds, Venice Biennale, Venice, Italy

2010Chihuly: Recent Work Naples Museum of Art, Naples, Florida


 

Awards (Selection)

1968Fulbright Fellowship to Murano, Italy

1975, 1979

National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship
1975, 1979

National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship

1986

Honorary Doctorates, University of Puget Sound, Tacoma, Washington, and the Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, Rhode Island

Governor's Art Award, Rhode Island

Named Fellow of the American Craft Council

1993

Alumnus Summa Laude Dignatus, Alumni Association, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington

1995

2000

Honorary Doctorate, Pratt Institute, New York

Honorary Doctorate of Humane Letters, Brandeis University, Waltham, Massachusetts