Chihuly at RISD
September 27, 2008-January 4, 2009
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GROUPS SEEKING TOURS SHOULD >> BOOK ONLINE NOW Renowned artist Dale Chihuly [RISD MFA '68, Ceramics] creates a special site-specific installation as the inaugural exhibition for the new special exhibition gallery in the Chace Center. Chihuly at RISD is complemented by an exhibition of work from other glass artists who were students during or after Chihuly's time at RISD. Serving as a sort of homecoming, Chihuly at RISD inaugurate the much-anticipated new building designed by Pritzker Prize-winning architect José Rafael Moneo. After earning his RISD degree in Ceramics, Chihuly was asked to help establish a Glass Department here (1969). In 1971 the Tacoma, WA native co-founded the Pilchuck Glass School (near Stanwood, outside Seattle). Under Chihuly's leadership Pilchuck rapidly became a world center for and proponent of glass as fine art and as a medium for installation and environmental art. He now oversees Chihuly Studio, which includes a hotshop at The Boathouse, a mockup team, and other assistants including several glassblowers. Dale Chihuly has created many well-known series of tabletop-size works that are technically brilliant, richly colored and voluptuously shaped and grouped, among them the Cylinders, Baskets, Macchia, Seaforms, Persians, and Venetians, but he is also celebrated for large-scale architectural installations. "I don't know why I work so large," he has said. "I very often push a series to its maximum size -- just to keep the glassblowers at the very edge of their technical abilities, to keep the tension high, to make it exciting. If you know exactly what you're doing and you can make it every time, it' s not going to be very interesting." Chihuly at RISD is presented by Bank of America. Additional support is provided by the Bafflin Foundation, Corning Foundation, and the Chihuly Leadership Committee. This exhibition is organized by the Rhode Island School of Design Museum in cooperation with Dale Chihuly. The work displayed is protected by copyright and any copying is expressly prohibited.
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