TALLEY DUNN GALLERY

TALLEY DUNN GALLERY // MAY 12 // 6-8PM

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Talley Dunn Gallery
5020 Tracy Street
Dallas, Texas 75205
214-521-4322
www.talleydunn.com

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Dale Chihuly:
Recent Work and New Forms
May 12 – August 18, 2012

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Talley Dunn Gallery is honored to present an exhibition of recent work by world-renowned artist
Dale Chihuly that showcases the fantastical and diverse forms of his hand-blown glass sculptures,
including chandeliers, a tower of Persian glass pieces, and an installation with colorful Fiori. The
show opens on Saturday, May 12 and will continue through August 18, 2012. An opening
reception will take place at the gallery on Saturday, May 12th from 6:00 to 8:00 p.m.

A visual feast of exuberant color and daring form, Chihuly’s installation of Cobalt Marlins and
Trumpet Flower Fiori welcomes visitors into the exhibition with a brilliant, indoor garden created
with blown glass flowers and daring verticals that reach almost nine feet above their base.
Ivory Feather and Amber Chandelier also dazzles, as the sculpture comes alive with the wild
tentacle-like forms that curl into the air and wrap the viewer’s eyes up within its intriguing mass.

Comprised of hundreds of lyrical glass pieces, the show’s two chandeliers command the
exhibition, as their forms engage the space around them and amaze visitors with their defiance
of gravity. These incredible forms are designed and created first in Chihuly’s studio in Seattle before
they are disassembled for shipment and then installed in the gallery for the exhibition.

While rich color continues as a vital component in Chihuly’s work, a recent series reveals the
artist’s exploration of line and shape with his White series. Upon closer viewing of these Soft
cylinders and Ikebana forms, one sees that color is created by layering delicate threads of
white within clear glass. White Soft Cylinder and White Venetian show a complex interplay
of line throughout their elegant forms.

Enthusiasts of Chihuly’s artwork will also have the unique opportunity to visit the outdoor
exhibition of his glass sculptures installed throughout the sixty-six acres of the Dallas Arboretum
and Botanical Garden. Chihuly at the Dallas Arboretum will be on display May 5 –
November 5, 2012.

Born in Tacoma, Washington, in 1941, Dale Chihuly earned a Master’s degree in Sculpture
from the University of Wisconsin and a Master of Fine Arts degree from the Rhode Island
School of Design (RISD). Following his studies, the artist won a Fulbright Fellowship to travel
and work in Europe where he studied glass blowing in Murano, Italy. In 1971, Chihuly
founded the Pilchuck Glass School with support from Seattle patrons Anne and John Hauberg,
and since that time, the school has become an internationally recognized glass center.

During the artist’s exhibition, Chihuly in the Light of Jerusalem 2000, more than one million
visitors saw his installations within the Tower of David Museum of the History of Jerusalem.
A mark of his long and celebrated career, the artist’s glass sculptures are featured in more
than two hundred museum collections around the world, including the Metropolitan
Museum of Art, the Corcoran Museum of Art, Washington, D.C., the Dallas Museum of Art,
the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, and the Musee des Arts Decoratifs, Palais du Louvre, Paris.

Dale Chihuly
Cobalt Marlins and Trumpet Flower Fiori, 2009
Hand-blown glass and wood base
96 x 96 x 96 inches
Copyright: Dale Chihuly/Chihuly Studio
Photo credit: Scott Mitchell Leen