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Many of you most likely had your introduction to contemporary
glass art by attending a Dale Chihuly show. Thousands of
people make their way to our gallery each year with the
expressed purpose of viewing his beautiful multi-colored
organic forms. We consider Chihuly to be a pioneer in the
glass field. He says about his own career, “I have spent my
life as an explorer, searching for new ways to use glass and
glassblowing.”
We feel very fortunate to have a great twenty-year
relationship with Dale. From the very first one-person show
we presented at our Palm Beach gallery in 1982, we have had a
tremendously positive response to his work.
Perhaps you have attended one of the big one-person Chihuly exhibitions that we have presented at SOFA-Chicago for the
past four years. At the moment we are preparing for our fifth
show in Chicago, which will take place October 25-27. This
year we are expanding the show beyond the walls of our booth
to include a 19-foot boat installation (see our Staff Pick of
the Month). We are also showing two Chandeliers and two
Persian wall installations, along with the now familiar
Seaform, Persian and Basket sets. We hope to see many of you
at SOFA this year and invite you all to view the works on our
website. A brochure containing images of many of these works
is also available.
I won’t go into the details of Chihuly’s biography, which are
very familiar to most glass enthusiasts and are outlined on
our website. I would like to tell you how grateful I am to
Dale for everything he has done to make contemporary glass art
as popular as it is today. His countless museum and gallery
exhibitions and his large-scale projects such as Chihuly over
Venice, Chihuly in the Light of Jerusalem and his current
Garfield Park Conservatory installations in Chicago, have
attracted the attention of art lovers all over the world. Dale says
that public installations are his “favorite form of art because so
many people get to see them.”
Visit the Dale Chihuly section on our website to see many beautiful works currently available at the gallery.
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