Dale ChihulyAmerican, 1941Sunburst
May one see it?
Yes, receiving visitors
Minneapolis, United States
On public display.
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- In this state since
- Source
- The museum
About the sculpture
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.
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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.
Minneapolis Institute of Art
Particulars
- Accession number
- 99.132
In the catalog
Sources
- Minneapolis Institute of Art
- Image: Minneapolis Institute of Art — © 2019 Chihuly Studios / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York
