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Sunburst, 1999
Dale Chihulyexpand_more
Blown glass, neon, metal armatureexpand_more
Gift of funds from Donna and Cargill MacMillan Jr.expand_more 99.132
On View in Gallery 100expand_more
Since the 1960s, Dale Chihuly has pushed the limits of glass in all directions -- including color, scale, and display -- to form organic, sculptural environments.
Chihuly studied at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and the Rhode Island School of Design, where he experimented with glass, neon gas, steel, and Plexiglas. In 1968 a Fulbright scholarship allowed him to study at Venini Fabrica. There, he absorbed the ancient Venetian method of teamwork, in which glass masters work with assistants to produce a collaborative work.
Chihuly brought the method back to RISD, and in the early 1980s, back to his home state of Washington. He centers his glassmaking and teaching activity in Seattle at his studio, The Boathouse, and the Pilchuck Glass School. Since losing an eye in a car accident in 1976, Chihuly now serves as designer and director of his collaborative works, no longer blowing glass himself.
Sunburst is made up of more than 1,000 individual pieces of glass and 100 feet of neon tubing. It weighs more than 3,000 pounds.
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- Title
- Sunburst
- Artist Life
- born 1941
- Role
- Maker
- Dimension
- 120 in. (304.8 cm)
- Accession Number
- 99.132
- Curator Approved
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