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DI ROSA PRESERVE FOR ARTS & NATURE : These ar my impressions of Di Rosa preserve during my six hour tour of the place on July 12, 2006. Di Rosa Preserve for Arts and Nature is the shared vision of Rene di Rosa and his late wife Veronica. The Preserve began in 1960s opening to the public in 1997. Rene di Rosa donated the Preserve to the public in 2000. It is now a non-profit cultural resource. It has 217 acres of land entirely sorrounded by vineyards. The Preserve houses one of the largest collections of Contemporary Arts in San Francisco Bay Area.

Photographs taken 2006-07-12.

DI ROSA PRESERVE FOR ARTS & NATURE

These ar my impressions of Di Rosa preserve during my six hour tour of the place on July 12, 2006. Di Rosa Preserve for Arts and Nature is the shared vision of Rene di Rosa and his late wife Veronica. The Preserve began in 1960s opening to the public in 1997. Rene di Rosa donated the Preserve to the public in 2000. It is now a non-profit ...

Updated: Jul 16, 2006 3:31pm PST

MY PAINTINGS & ARCHITECTURAL ILLUSTRATIONS : These are photographs of my paintings still in my possesion and few of the photographs of architectural illustrations I did when I was practicing architecture

MY PAINTINGS & ARCHITECTURAL ILLUSTRATIONS

These are photographs of my paintings still in my possesion and few of the photographs of architectural illustrations I did when I was practicing architecture

Updated: Sep 04, 2009 4:30pm PST

DALE CHIHULY - ARTIST, GLASS ART SCULPTOR : This is the biggest yet of Dale Chihuly's art exhibit. It is in the de Young Museum, at Golden Gate Park, San Francisco, California and it will run from June 14, 2008 to September 28, 2008.

Dale Chihuly is most frequently lauded for revolutionizing the Studio Glass movement by expanding its original premise of the solitary artist working in a studio environment to encompass the notion of collaborative teams and a division of labor within the creative process.  However, Chihuly's contribution extends well beyond the boundaries both of this movement and even the field of glass: his achievements have influenced contemporary art in general.  Chihuly’s practice of using teams has led to the development of complex, multipart sculptures of dramatic beauty that place him in the leadership role of moving blown glass out of the confines of the small, precious object and into the realm of large-scale contemporary sculpture.  In fact, Chihuly deserves credit for establishing the blown glass form as an accepted vehicle for installation and environmental art beginning in the late twentieth century and continuing today. 

A prodigiously prolific artist whose work balances content with an investigation of the material's properties of translucency and transparency, Chihuly began working with glass at a time when reverence for the medium and for technique was paramount. A student of interior design and architecture in the early 1960s, by 1965 he had become captivated by the process of glassblowing. He enrolled in the University of Wisconsin's hot glass program, the first of its kind in the United States, established by Studio Glass movement founder Harvey K. Littleton. After receiving a degree in sculpture, Chihuly was admitted to the ceramics program at the Rhode Island School of Design, only to establish its renowned glass program, turning out a generation of recognized artists.

Influenced by an environment that fostered the blurring of boundaries separating all the arts, as early as 1967 Chihuly was using neon, argon, and blown glass forms to create room-sized installations of organic, freestanding, plantlike imagery. He brought this interdisciplinary approach to the arts to the legendary Pilchuck School in Stanwood, Washington, which he cofounded in 1971 and served as its first artistic director until 1989. Under Chihuly's guidance, Pilchuck has become a gathering place for international artists with diverse backgrounds. Over the years his studios, which include an old racing shell factory in Seattle called The Boathouse and now buildings in the Ballard section of the city and Tacoma, have become a mecca for artists, collectors, and museum professionals involved in all media. 

Information from http://www.chihuly.com

DALE CHIHULY - ARTIST, GLASS ART SCULPTOR

This is the biggest yet of Dale Chihuly's art exhibit. It is in the de Young Museum, at Golden Gate Park, San Francisco, California and it will run from June 14, 2008 to September 28, 2008. Dale Chihuly is most frequently lauded for revolutionizing the Studio Glass movement by expanding its original premise of the solitary artist worki ...

Updated: Jun 17, 2008 9:55am PST

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