MFA Exhibit Dale Chihuly

Dale Chihuly was born in 1941 in Tacoma, Washington. He went to University of Washington and while he was there studying interior design he was introduced to glass blowing. He graduated in 1965. Soon after he enrolled in the first glass blowing program in the country at University of Wisconsin. He continues to study glass blowing at Rhode Island School of Design. While he was there is established a glass blowing program and taught there for ten years. In 1968 went to work at glass blowing factory in Venice. It was there were he observed the team in glass blowing which later became a key component to his later work. His work has concluded over 200 hundred museum collections around the world. He has also received many awards and has created more then a dozen of well know series of his work.

When I went and saw his show at the exhibit in the mfa. One of the first things I noticed was the darkness and how the glass was illuminating in the darkness. The second thing I noticed right away was how big, bright and colorful his sculptures were. His work seemed to be memorizing and almost playful because of the size of the sculptures. I almost wanted to touch or even get up onto the black shiny platform and walk through the life size sculptures. I felt that his whole exhibit gave off this dream like feel to it because of the brightness the sculptures were giving off in the dark and their size. Lastly I felt that there was a nice balance of some of his sculptures installed on these beautiful, black platform and these beautiful chandeliers sculptures installed up on the ceiling.