DALE CHIHULY - Marlborough Gallery

DALE CHIHULY
PRESS RELEASE
For press inquiries please contact
Brittany Piccuirro at (212) 541-4900
or press@marlboroughgallery.com
MARCH 12 - APRIL 11, 2015
OPENING RECEPTION: THURSDAY, MARCH 12, 6-8PM
NEW YORK, NEW YORK: The Directors of Marlborough Gallery are
pleased to announce that an exhibition of new work by artist, Dale Chihuly, will open
at Marlborough Gallery 40 West 57th Street on March 12th with an opening reception
from 6-8 pm, and continue through April 11, 2015.
A 50-year journey exploring color and light crescendos with Chihuly at Marlborough,
which will display a new series of work titled Rotolo. In these works, glass is handled
in an aggressively physical manner resulting in the most technically challenging pieces
that the artist has produced. Chihuly remarks, “Working on my new series, Rotolo,
rekindled my excitement for working with clear glass. I was really amazed by the
complexity and brilliance of the form, which started from a simple coil.”
With a background in architecture, Chihuly has always been interested in space and
light. Working within the architecture of the gallery, Chihuly will present smaller
sculptural works from his established series along with large-scale installations. At
the center of the gallery will be Sapphire Neon with Burned Logs and Neodymium Reeds.
This piece is the result of work produced with and in nature since the 1970s; a period
marked by his initial experimentation with neon as a medium. Chihuly states, “I use
glass, plastic and neon…a lot of different materials. I am fascinated with putting these
materials together – transparent materials – materials that have to do with light… The
magic is in the light.” The Reeds came out of a multi-week project during the longest
days of the year in Nuutajärvi, Finland, in 1995.
Born in 1941 in Tacoma, Washington, Chihuly was introduced to glass while studying
at the University of Washington. After graduating in 1965, Chihuly enrolled in the first glass program in the country, at the
University of Wisconsin. In 1968, after receiving a Fulbright Fellowship, Chihuly went to work at the Venini glass factory
River Blue Icicle Chandelier
2015, 37 x 70 x 67 in.
in Venice where he observed the team approach to blowing glass that is central to his style of working today. 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.
Dale Chihuly’s work is included in over 200 museum collections worldwide. His work has been exhibited in major venues such as the de Young
Museum in San Francisco, in 2008; the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, in 2011; and the Montreal Museum of Fine Art in 2013. Additional institutions
include the Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh, PA; the Hokkaido Museum of Modern Art, Japan; the Israel Museum, Jerusalem, Israel; the Los
Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA; The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY; National Gallery of Australia, Canberra,
Australia; Nationalmuseum, Stockholm, Sweden, and the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY.
Highlights of Chihuly’s extensive exhibition history include the ambitious show, Chihuly in the Light of Jerusalem 2000, for which he created extraordinary
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40 West 57th Street
New York, NY 10019
t. (212) 541-4900 / f. (212) 541-4948
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PRESS RELEASE
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Brittany Piccuirro at (212) 541-4900
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installations within the ancient stone walls of the Tower of David Museum. In
September of that same year, he traveled to the Victoria & Albert Museum, London, to
unveil an eighteen-foot chandelier gracing the main entrance of the museum. In 2001,
the Victoria & Albert Museum devoted an important solo exhibition to Chihuly’s
work. Since then he has exhibited in numerous public institutions, including a series of
sublime exhibitions at botanical gardens, including the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew,
in London in 2005, the New York Botanical Garden in 2006, the Denver Botanic
Garden in 2014, and currently, the Fairchild Tropical Botanic Garden in Florida.
A fully illustrated color catalogue will be available at the time of exhibition.
Clear Rotolo 100
2015, 36 x 15 x 15 in.
MARLBOROUGH GALLERY, INC.
40 West 57th Street
New York, NY 10019
t. (212) 541-4900 / f. (212) 541-4948
www.marlboroughgallery.com
PRESS RELEASE
For press inquiries please contact
Brittany Piccuirro at (212) 541-4900
or press@marboroughgallery.com
NEW YORK | LONDON | MONACO | MADRID