Dale Chihuly has become famous for his intricate, vividly-colored, eye-catching glasswork. This work, Inside and Out, belongs to the Joslyn Art Museum in Omaha, Nebraska.
Chihuly's Glowing Gemstone Polyvitro Chandelier also hangs in the main atrium of the Joslyn Art Museum.
Chihuly grew up and graduated from high school in Tacoma. Supported by his mother after his brother George's death in an Air Force training accident in Florida and his father's death of a heart attack, he had no intention to continue his education until his mother convinced him to enroll at the College of the Puget Sound in 1959. A year later, he transferred to the University of Washington at Seattle, where, though he studied interior design and architecture, he first tried glass-blowing.
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. Instead, he conceptualizes each project with paint and canvas and then employs a team of artists to do the handiwork.
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Chihuly's official website (http://www.chihuly.com)
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.
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.
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