See Dale Chihuly at Tacoma Traver Gallery - Live Music by Vince Mira 5/17

Date = 05/17 5:00-8:00pm
Place = Traver Gallery Tacoma

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May at Traver Gallery - Tacoma Dale Chihuly: Baskets, Cylinders and Drawings Exhibition Runs: May 10 - June 8, 2008 Reception with the artist: Saturday, May 17, 5 - 8 pm With refreshments, and live music by "young Johnny Cash" Vince Mira from 5:30 - 8 pm Dale Chihuly: Baskets, Cylinders and Drawings The Traver Gallery in Tacoma is honored to present Baskets, Cylinders and Drawings, a solo exhibition featuring new work by renowned artist Dale Chihuly. The fluid forms, intricate designs and unexpected textures of Chihuly's new Baskets and Cylinders invite continuing contemplation, while his new drawings are marked with striking, expressive lines executed in a range of rich metallic paints. These luscious, opulent hues and the subtle, exacting use of color connect the drawings to the works in glass, creating a thread of contemporary sophistication that runs throughout this earthy body of work. In the summer of 2006 at the Museum of Glass in Tacoma, Dale Chihuly was united with eleven of the original head glassblowers, or gaffers, with whom he created thirteen of his greatest earlier series. The week-long event was more than a reunion; it brought together a group of artists whose skill levels and artistic sensibilities had grown throughout the years allowing them to revisit and reinterpret Chihuly's sculptural achievements with a greater level of maturity.* The sense of excitement generated by the Museum of Glass project inspired Chihuly to continue his exploration of earlier series. The Baskets and Cylinders presented in this exhibition are the fruit of this continued investigation, while the drawings represent the most recent developments in his ongoing exploration of color and form in two dimensions. The new Black Cylinders are a variant on Chihuly's first series, the Cylinders, which was begun in 1974. Conceived of by Chihuly and early Pilchuck collaborators James Carpenter and Italo Scanga as a way to draw on glass, the Cylinders are characterized by delicate, thin pieces of glass which are combined to create patterns, or "pick-up" drawings. This kind of drawing was an important technical breakthrough for American Studio Glass - never before had such exact drawings and images been applied to hot glass in this way.  The designs on the new Black Cylinders pop against their dark backgrounds, demonstrating a sophisticated understanding of how color can be used in glass. The original Basket series was begun in 1977, after the artist saw a display of Salish woven, cedar bark baskets at the Washington State Historical Society in Tacoma. In order to approximate the casual look of the Northwest Coast Native American models stacked within one another and sagging under their own weight, Chihuly abandoned the symmetrical perfection of the Italian glass tradition in favor of a deliberately off-kilter look in each vessel. The new baskets are increasingly thin, incorporating "pick-up" drawings from the Cylinders, and presenting more innovative solutions to the nested and stacked compositions. Born in 1941 in Tacoma, Washington, Dale Chihuly was introduced to glass while studying interior design at the University of Washington. After graduating in 1965, Chihuly enrolled in the first glass program in the country, at the University of Wisconsin. He continued his studies at the Rhode Island School of Design (RISD), where he later established the glass program and taught for over a decade. In 1968, Chihuly was awarded a Fulbright Fellowship to work at the Venini factory in Venice, Italy. While in Venice, Chihuly observed the team approach to blowing glass, which is critical to the way he works today. In 1971, Chihuly cofounded Pilchuck Glass School in Washington. With this international glass center, Chihuly has led the avant-garde in the development of glass as a fine art. His work is included in over two hundred museum collections worldwide. He has been the recipient of many awards, including eight honorary doctorates and two fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts. Chihuly has created many well-known series of works, among them the Baskets, Persians, and Seaforms, but he is also celebrated for large architectural installations. In 1995, he embarked on the international project, Chihuly Over Venice, which involved working in glass factories in Finland, Ireland, and Mexico, with the resultant sculptures installed over the canals and piazze of Venice. In 1999, Chihuly mounted his most ambitious installation to date, Chihuly in the Light of Jerusalem; more than one million visitors attended the Tower of David Museum to view his installations. In 2001, the Victoria and Albert Museum in London curated the exhibition Chihuly at the V&A. The Chihuly Bridge of Glass in Tacoma, Washington, was dedicated in 2002. Chihuly's lifelong affinity for glasshouses has grown into a series of exhibitions within botanical settings. His garden exhibition was first presented in 2001 at the Garfield Park Conservatory in Chicago. In 2005, Chihuly exhibited at the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, near London, and at Fairchild Tropical Botanic Garden in Coral Gables, Florida in both 2006 and 2007. An exhibition at the de Young Museum in San Francisco will open in June of 2008, and will be his most ambitious exhibition to date. *The information in this and the following paragraphs is drawn from the book and DVD Chihuly in the Hotshop (Portland Press, 2007). Located on the Tacoma's Thea Foss Waterway adjacent to the Museum of Glass, the Traver Gallery is among the country's premier exhibition spaces for contemporary studio glass, painting, sculpture, and installation art. Gallery hours are Tuesday 9 - 5, Wednesday - Saturday 10 - 6 and Sunday 12 - 5. For more information, please call (253) 383-3685 or visit our website at www.travergallery.com.   # # #

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TAM: Chihuly on Made in America airs May 31

Back in January, a crew from the Travel Channel was at Museum of Glass to film an episode of “John Ratzenberger’s Made in America” (John played Cliff, the mailman, on “Cheers”). The episode features Dale Chihuly and the Chihuly Bridge of Glass—footage was shot on the Bridge, at the Boathouse, and includes some B-roll of the Museum of Glass.

 

We just received word that this episode is scheduled to air on Saturday, May 31, at 12:30 pm. on the Travel Channel (channel 36 on Comcast and 80 on Click).

This should be a good piece about the Bridge, Tacoma and the our neighbor, Museum of Glass! 

 

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TAM: Charlie Rose interviews Chuck Close

This is a lengthy (apparently 56 minutes although I have not yet watched it) Chuck Close interview with Charlie Rose:

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-8127091529031459011

 

 

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TAM: IMPORTANT training date changes

Dear Docents,

I apologize in advance but this email is about a change to the docent training schedule. However, it is also about an exciting NEW training session.

 

Tim Ternes is the Director of Programming and Exhibitions for The Saint John’s Bible, and he has been involved in training the docents at all the other exhibition locations except for one (I forget which one). Because he will be in this area for other reasons, he is willing and able to come do docent training for us at Tacoma Art Museum!

 

The docent training on Tuesday, June 17 is new, and will replace the trainings on Monday, June 9 and Wednesday, June 11 (which are now cancelled).

I realize that this date and time may be problematic for some of you. Please let me know if you CANNOT attend. We will find ways to pass on all the information to you.

 

The details for the July 14 and 16 trainings (a walk-through of the exhibition) have also changed: Tim Ternes will lead the training on July 14 in the morning, and Margaret Bullock will lead the training on July 16 in the evening. Margaret will also do a walk-through of the Janet Cardiff exhibition on both dates.

 

Required	Tues. June 17, 10:30 – 12:30	Introduction to Illuminating the Word and Janet Cardiff’s Forty Part Motet Location: Event Space   -          Intro lecture and PowerPoint to Illuminating the Word by Tim Ternes from Saint John’s Abbey, Director of Programming and Exhibitions for The Saint John’s Bible -          Intro and question period to Janet Cardiff by Margaret Bullock
Required	Mon. July 14, 10:30 – 12:30 or Wed. July 16, 5:30 – 7:30	Walk-through: Illuminating the Word and Janet Cardiff’s Forty Part Motet Location: Gallery -          July 14 walk-through of Illuminating the Word by Tim Ternes from Saint John’s Abbey, Director of Programming and Exhibitions for The Saint John’s Bible. -          July 16 walk-through of Illuminating the Word will be led by Margaret Bullock because Tim Ternes cannot attend -          July 14 and 16 Walk-through to Janet Cardiff by Margaret Bullock

 

A complete updated docent training schedule is attached.

 

Thanks for your time!

 

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TAM: Chihuly float installation

FYI: Dale Chihuly’s Floats will be re-installed in the Wave on Third Thursday, June 19 from 10 am – 2 pm approximately.

 

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Monet painting sold for $41 million at NYC auction

Monet painting sold for $41 million at NYC auction

NEW YORK (AP) — A Claude Monet painting was auctioned Tuesday for more
than $41 million, breaking the auction record for the French
Impressionist artist.

"Le Pont du chemin de fer a Argenteuil" — a painting of a bridge with
two trains passing over the Seine while pleasure boats float below —
was sold at a Christie's sale for $41,481,000, said Rik Pike, a
spokesman for the auction house.

The previous record for a Monet painting was $36.5 million for his
1904 "Nympheas," which was sold last year.

Christie's said the buyer wanted to remain anonymous.

The auction house didn't identify the seller either, but it reportedly
was the Nahmads, a family of art dealers with galleries in New York
and London.

The sale price, which included the buyer's premium, exceeded the
pre-auction estimate of $35 million to $40 million, Pike said.

Argenteuil was a center for pleasure boating among affluent Parisians
and a popular subject for many Impressionist artists. Monet, who
rented a house near the cast-iron railway bridge, painted the work in
1873.

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TAM: more on the Chuck-Philip collaboration

Something I came across on the weekend:

Philip Glass wrote a piano piece for Chuck Close: A Musical Portrait of Chuck Close.

http://www.philipglass.com/html/compositions/a-musical-portrait-of-chuck-close.html

http://www.philipglass.com/html/recordings/portraits.html -- this article is long but has some interesting info about the Chuck Close - Philip Glass collaboration and how they are similar as artists.

 

Thanks for your time!

 

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TAM: From the collection of Ambroise Vollard

Gaard sent me this very interesting link to a collection of Mary Cassatt’s prints that were purchased by Ambroise Vollard (an art dealer and publisher who worked with Renoir), and are currently on view in New York and online. Thanks Gaard!

 

Good morning. You may find this interesting and think it's worth sharing. We subscribe to The New York Times, and I came across this review on Thursday for a show at the Adelson Galleries of Mary Cassatt's prints and drawings. The full review can be accessed at http://www.nytimes.com/2008/05/02/arts/design/02gall.html?scp=2&sq=mary+cassatt&st=nyt.  All 139 images are accessible on the galleries' website: http://www.adelsongalleries.com/.
Gaard

 

 

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