CHIHULY AT MARLBOROUGH
MARCH 12—APRIL 11, 2015
40 WEST 57TH STREET NEW YORK, NY 10019 212.541.4900 MARLBOROUGHGALLERY.COM
Chihuly, Andrea Strong, and James Mongrain The Boathouse hotshop, Seattle, 2013
As an artist, I have always marveled at the possibility of creating something new, something that no one has ever seen before. Rotolo, which I started working on a few years ago, is a new series of work and the next step in this exploration. This work has given me the opportunity to experiment in a new way with the physicality and weight of hot glass. I am happy to show a few of these works at Marlborough. At the center of the gallery is a piece called Sapphire Neon with Burned Logs and Neodymium Reeds. This piece is the outcome of work I have been doing with and in nature since the 1970s, when I began experimenting with neon as a medium. The Reeds came out of a several-week project during the longest days of the year in Nuutajärvi, Finland, in 1995. The logs are a tribute to my deep roots in the great Northwest, where I grew up. I have also chosen a group of my Jerusalem Cylinders and Soft Cylinders. I began the Jerusalem Cylinders in 1999 to commemorate my exhibition Chihuly in the Light of Jerusalem. I wanted to do something with chunks of glass that would speak to the great stones used to build the Citadel. I had worked on a kibbutz in Israel when I was twenty-one; the memories, landscapes, and stories from that time of my life have influenced me profoundly. The Soft Cylinders are the offspring of two earlier series. They express the same asymmetry and movement of the Baskets while incorporating the pickup drawings of the Cylinders. Initially, the drawings on the forms were very rudimentary. Some of my early inspiration came from my interest in Pendleton blankets. Now the drawings are looser—less literal and more expressive. I like seeing the imagery captured in glass. —Dale Chihuly
Rotolo /
Clear Rotolo 122 / 2015, 29 x 22 x 19" Clear Rotolo 100 / 2015, 36 x 15 x 15" Clear Rotolo 77 / 2015, 27 x 18 x 12"
Jerusalem Cylinders  /
Silvered Jerusalem Cylinder with Quartz Crystal / 2010, 16 x 12 x 8"
Silvered Jerusalem Cylinder with Graphite Crystals / 2012, 28 x 16 x 17"
Clear Jerusalem Cylinder with Charcoal Crystals / 2012, 17 x 24 x 19"
Silvered Jerusalem Cylinder with Gilded Oak Crystals / 2010, 35 x 19 x 17"
Soft Cylinders  /
Black Midnight Blue Soft Cylinder with Golden Lip Wrap / 2013, 18 x 15 x 15"
Black Orange Soft Cylinder with Pine Lip Wrap / 2013, 20 x 17 x 17"
Black Indigo Soft Cylinder with Yellow Lip Wrap / 2013, 20 x 18 x 18"
Silvered Soft Cylinder with Harvest Yellow Lip Wrap / 2010, 20 x 21 x 16"
Neon & Reeds  /
Sapphire Neon with Burned Logs and Neodymium Reeds / 2015, 8 x 21 x 15'
Chandeliers  /
Opaline White Chandelier (detail opposite) / 2015, 80 x 64 x 59"
Clear and Silvered Chandelier / 2015, 48 x 60 x 60"
Obsidian and Silver Chandelier (detail opposite) / 2015, 84 x 64 x 60"
River Blue Icicle Chandelier / 2015, 37 x 70 x 67"
Rotolo Drawing / 2013, 42 x 30"
Rotolo Drawing / 2013, 42 x 30"
Float Quad Drawing / 2014, 84 x 60"
Float Quad Drawing / 2014, 84 x 60"
Seaforms /
Mosaic Blue Seaform Installation / 2015, 19 x 89 x 25"
DALE C H I H U LY / Born in 1941 in Tacoma, Washington, Dale Chihuly was introduced to glass while studying interior design at the University of Washington. After graduating in 1965, Chihuly enrolled in the first glass program in the country, at the University of Wisconsin. He continued his studies at the Rhode Island School of Design (RISD), where he later established the glass program and taught for more than a decade. In 1968, after receiving a Fulbright Fellowship, he went to work at the Venini glass factory in Venice. There he observed the team approach to blowing glass, which is critical to the way he works today. In 1971, Chihuly cofounded Pilchuck Glass School in Washington State. With this international glass center, Chihuly has led the avant-garde in the development of glass as a fine art. His work is included in more than 200 museum collections worldwide. He has been the recipient of many awards, including twelve honorary doctorates and two fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts. Chihuly has created more than a dozen well-known series of works, among them, Cylinders and Baskets in the 1970s; Seaforms, Macchia, Venetians, and Persians in the 1980s; Niijima Floats and Chandeliers in the 1990s; and Fiori in the 2000s. He is also celebrated for large architectural installations. In 1986, he was honored with a solo exhibition, Dale Chihuly Objets de Verre, at the Musée des Arts Décoratifs, Palais du Louvre, in Paris. In 1995, he began Chihuly Over Venice, for which he created sculptures at glass factories in Finland, Ireland, and Mexico, then installed them over the canals and piazzas of Venice. In 1999, Chihuly started an ambitious exhibition, Chihuly in the Light of Jerusalem; more than 1 million visitors attended the Tower of David Museum to view his installations. In 2001, the Victoria and Albert Museum in London curated the exhibition Chihuly at the V&A. Chihuly’s lifelong fascination for glasshouses has grown into a series of exhibitions within botanical settings. His Garden Cycle began in 2001 at the Garfield Park Conservatory in Chicago. Chihuly exhibited at the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, near London, in 2005. Other major exhibition venues include the de Young Museum in San Francisco, in 2008; the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, in 2011; and the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, in 2013. Chihuly Garden and Glass, a long-term exhibition, opened at Seattle Center in 2012.
SEL ECTE D S OLO EX H I B I T I O N S /
1979 Dale Chihuly/VIDRO Museu de Arte de São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil
2006 Glass in the Garden: Chihuly at the Missouri Botanical Garden Missouri Botanical Garden, St. Louis, Missouri Chihuly at the New York Botanical Garden New York Botanical Garden, Bronx, New York
1986 Dale Chihuly Objets de Verre Musée des Arts Décoratifs, Palais du Louvre, Paris, France
2007 Chihuly at the Conservatory: A Garden of Glass Phipps Conservatory, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvannia
1992 Dale Chihuly: Installations Seattle Art Museum, Seattle, Washington
2008 Chihuly at the de Young de Young Museum and The Legion of Honor, San Francisco, California
1978 Baskets and Cylinders: Recent Glass by Dale Chihuly Renwick Gallery, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C.
1994 Dale Chihuly: Pelléas and Mélisande Renwick Gallery, National Museum of American Art, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C.
1996 Chihuly Over Venice Venice, Italy
2009 Chihuly Reimagined Franklin Park Conservatory, Columbus, Ohio
1999 Chihuly in the Light of Jerusalem 2000 Tower of David Museum of the History of Jerusalem, Jerusalem, Israel
2010 Chihuly at the Frederik Meijer Gardens & Sculpture Park: A New Eden Frederik Meijer Gardens & Sculpture Park, Grand Rapids, Michigan
2001
Chihuly at the V&A Victoria and Albert Museum, London, England Chihuly in the Park: A Garden of Glass Garfield Park Conservatory, Chicago, Illinois
2002 Dale Chihuly: An Inaugural Exhibition Oklahoma City Museum of Art, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma 2003 Color and Light: Chihuly at the Frederik Meijer Gardens & Sculpture Park Frederik Meijer Gardens & Sculpture Park, Grand Rapids, Michigan
Chihuly at the Conservatory Franklin Park Conservatory, Columbus, Ohio
Chihuly: The Nature of Glass Desert Botanical Garden, Phoenix, Arizona
Chihuly at Cheekwood Cheekwood Botanical Garden and Museum of Art, Nashville, Tennessee 2011 Chihuly: Through the Looking Glass Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Boston, Massachusetts 2012 Chihuly at the Dallas Arboretum Dallas Arboretum and Botanical Garden, Dallas, Texas
Chihuly at the VMFA Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond, Virginia
2013 Chihuly Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, Montreal, Quebec, Canada
2004 Chihuly in the Garden Atlanta Botanical Garden, Atlanta, Georgia
2014 Chihuly Clinton Presidential Center, Little Rock, Arkansas
2005 Gardens of Glass: Chihuly at Kew Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, Richmond, England
Chihuly Denver Botanic Gardens, Denver, Colorado
Chihuly at Fairchild Fairchild Tropical Botanic Garden, Coral Gables, Florida
Chihuly at Fairchild: A Garden of Glass Fairchild Tropical Botanic Garden, Coral Gables, Florida
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