Dale Chihuly- The Glass Master

A true artist from sculpture to interior design, glass painting and other art media, Dale Chihuly is an inspirational and magnificent artist. He was from Tacoma, Washington, born in 1941 and studied Bachelor of Arts degree in interior design at the University of Washington in 1965. As a true artist, he had his Master of Science in sculpture after graduating college where he was mentored by Harvey Littleton who is a considered as the great American educator and glass artist.

Not contented with these achievements alone, he also studied about glass in Venice through the Fulbright Fellowship and received another Masters degree in fine arts by the year 1968. He lived a full life ahead and became influenced by the glassblowing tradition. Through this, he was influenced to produce pieces of artwork, mostly architectural glass that are considered out of this world

But Dale Chihuly met an accident when he had a head-on car collision car accident in England where he was literally thrown out of the windshield.  More than anything else, his face was severely bruised and cuts where his left eye was also damaged. It then led to left eye blindness.  But after months of recovering, Chihuly still continued to blow glasses for his masterpieces. In 1979 however, he also met another accident when he was body surfing and his left shoulder was dislocated by the said event.

Dale Chihuly works

Since 1975, he made different art pieces that at one of a kind and widely appreciated by people. some of his works include:

• The Navajo Blanket series where he painted the Navajo blankets on glasses
• Northwest Coast Basket series
• Seaform Series
• Macchia Series
• Persian Series
• Venetia Series
• Ikebana series and many more

He used different inspirations using glasses either blowing them or sculpting the glasses and making intricate designs making him one of the sought after glass artists in the United States. Dale Chihuly also made large-scale architectural designs of art installations where he made 3D or 3-dimensional art glasses for chandeliers. Because of this work, he became internationally famous by 1996 and then made another project which took him 2 years to finish. This was called “Chihuly Over Venice” where there are 14 hanging chandeliers.

After the phenomenal Venice project, he was also commissioned to make another glass installation where he named it “Chihuly in the Light of Jerusalem 2000” where Dale Chihuly made it in Jerusalem. This was an outdoor exhibit where it showed the installations in the courtyard at the Tower of David complex which was located in the old city of Jerusalem. And as of today, there are other art pieces like the one shown in London whichi s the Victoria and Albert Museum; his glass houses where transformed into series of exhibitions in botanical settings such as the Garden Cycle which was exhibited in the Garfield Park Conservatory in Chicago; the Royal Botanic Gardens in Kew and in the de Young Museum in San Francisco.

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