![]() In 2019, the Frank Lloyd Wright team visited Chihuly Studios in Seattle. Sketches began traveling between Washington and Arizona. So began four years of preparing Taliesin for the arrival of Chihuly's work. We didn't have the right infrastructure to make this happen." We didn't have people with the right skills. "He came and said, 'Can you make this happen?' And I at first said, 'There's no way to be able to do this,'" Graff said. There had never been an art exhibition like this one, Graff told The Republic. "I've always loved the desert so an opportunity to exhibit here, I took every chance I could to do it," Chihuly said.Ĭonversations started in 2017 when Chihuly and his studio team met with Frank Lloyd Wright Foundation president Stuart Graff. ![]() ![]() But he kept coming back to the Arizona desert.Īfter returning to the Phoenix Art Museum in 2002 and the Desert Botanical Garden in both 20, Chihuly wanted to come back yet again. His work is in more than 200 museums worldwide and his shows have reached Venice, Jerusalem and Singapore to name a few. Chihuly soon rose to international prominence. Here's where to see them 40 years of Chihuly in the desertĬhihuly first showed his work in Arizona at the Phoenix Art Museum and the Tucson Museum of Art in 1982. To install six pieces at the late Wright's Arizona home is "a dream come true" for Chihuly, who said Wright heavily inspired his work.Ĭhihuly in the desert: Dale Chihuly's glass masterpieces are coming to metro Phoenix. ![]() This is the first time Chihuly has displayed his work alongside a Wright building that is open to the public. The show - a joint exhibition at Frank Lloyd Wright's Taliesin West and the Desert Botanical Garden - is open until June 19, 2022. His first show at Phoenix's Desert Botanical Garden in 2013 was just one example of his love of Arizona's sunrises, sunsets and the saguaro cactus, Chihuly told The Arizona Republic on Thursday - just one day before "Chihuly in the Desert'" opened to the public. View Gallery: "Chihuly in the Desert" glass artist Dale Chihuly's latest exhibitionĭale Chihuly always loved the desert. ![]()
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