Want!

athenais went to the Chihuly exhibit at the de Young Museum today. I love Chihuly's glass, so went looking at the online exhibition pictures and found this work of glass art.

Want. Seriously lust want. Scroll through all six pictures. The second one fills me with joy just imagining being is such a space. A ceiling of light, color, and beauty...the colors cast on white walls. Color, light, shape, and sheen: transformative space.

Now that's a glass ceiling I could gladly live with.

Further poking around the Chihuly site turned up the information that he received an MFA from the Rhode Island School of Design and helped establish their glass program. A special Chihuly exhibition opened at RISD today in conjunction with their new exhibitions gallery in the new Chace Center.

"A riot of sculptural forms of a scale and energy unlike anything seen before in New England, this unique, site-specific work will fill the largest gallery (nearly 6,000 square feet) in the new Chace Center."

Oh, yeah. Wanna see that. Absolutely.

There's also a companion exhibition: "Studio Glass in Rhode Island: The Chihuly Years" and Building Books: The Art of David Macaulay.

These will all be on exhibit through early January. I'm going to do my darnedest to get there at least once. Who's interested in an expedition to Providence?