Dan Dailey (glass artist)

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Dan Owen Dailey
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Born (1947-02-04) February 4, 1947 (age 77)
Alma mater University of the Arts,
Rhode Island School of Design
Known forGlass sculpture
MovementModernism,
Materialism
Spouse Linda MacNeil
Children2
Website www.dandailey.com

Dan Owen Dailey (born February 4, 1947) [1] [2] is an American artist and educator, known for his sculpture. With the support of a team of artists and crafts people, he creates sculptures and functional objects in glass and metal. He has taught at many glass programs and is professor emeritus at the Massachusetts College of Art, where he founded the glass program. [3]

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Emerging from the studio glass movement initiated by Harvey Littleton, Dailey's work has branched out from the mainstream by the incorporation of metal into many of the sculptures. Additionally, he has worked with several glass companies, for more than twenty years. Since 1971, Dailey's work has been featured in more than 150 exhibitions and included in over 350 juried or invitational group shows.

Early life and education

Dan Dailey was born on February 4, 1947, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. [3] [4]

Dailey attended the Philadelphia College of Art (now called the University of the Arts, BFA 1969) and Rhode Island School of Design (MFA 1972). [4] [5] Dailey studied with Dale Chihuly at RISD, [6] and was Chihuly’s first graduate student.[ citation needed ] In 1972 to 1973, he was awarded the Fulbright Fellowship to study glass at the Venini Factory in Murano, Italy.

He is married to Linda MacNeil, an artist also working with glass and metal, primarily in the studio or art jewelry field. [7] [8]

Career

1970s

Series from the 1970s [9]
TitleDatesNo. of pieces
Engraved1972–7524
“M”1975–763
Nail Vases197612
“Skagit”197711
Wire Glass19789
City Vases197914
Oceanic Vases197912
Scenic Vases1979–8022
Distorted Vessels1979–8219
Vitrolite Wall Reliefs1979–9030

Dailey worked at Massachusetts College of Art and Design, Boston from 1973 until 1985; where he was the founder of the glass department. Additionally he taught in 1975 at Pilchuck Glass School [10] in Stanwood, Washington. In the 1970s, Dailey continued to create illuminated sculpture and vase forms, and began to develop Vitrolite wall reliefs.

In 1975, Dailey received a fellowship at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology's Center for Advanced Visual Studies in Cambridge where he co-taught the class Glass, Gas and Electricity with German artist Otto Piene. This experimental sculpture class emphasized and explored the phenomenon of illumination. In conjunction with the MIT Research Lab for Electronics, Dailey further studied the qualities of light and glass.

From in 1978 to 2003, Dailey created 7 editions of pâte de verre works with Cristallerie Daum, a French decorative glass studio. Dailey's editions of work with studio Daum include, Les Danseurs, Le Vent, Le Joyeau, L’Eau, Le Vin, Le Soleil, and La Dame. [11]

In 1979, he received a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship–Glass award.

1980s

During 1980, Dailey was awarded the Massachusetts Council on the Arts Fellowship–Glass.

From 1984 until 1985, he worked as an independent designer and artist with Steuben Glass Works in Corning, New York. At the request of Steuben, Dailey produced sports-themed designs to be produced on vases, with one design, Ice Dancers, being produced.

Additionally from 1984 to 1985, he worked as an independent designer and artist at Fenton Art Glass Company, in Williamstown, West Virginia. Together with Fenton Art Glass Company, Dailey worked on producing cast glass components of a low-relief mural. Over a period of 20 years, Dailey made 26 large scale murals, one of which was 16 feet (4.9 m) by 24 feet (7.3 m), weighing over 4,000 pounds (1,800 kg). With numerous assistants, Dailey also blew glass to create various works, notably, the mural Science Fiction Series (created 1985 to 1986).

Series from the 1980s [9]
TitleDatesNo. of pieces
Head Vases198021
Tripod Vessels1980–8123
People & Animal Vases1981–8211
Fish Vases198124
Bird Vases198228
Travel Vases19829
Constructed Heads & Busts1982–8720
Automobile Vases198320
People Holding Animals19833
Constructed Animals1983–9516
Science Fiction Vases1984–8524
Portrait Vases198618
Character Heads1988–8920
Nature Vases198810
Face Vases1988–97196
Dailey/Tagliapietra Vases1989–9054
Mythology Head Vases1989–9022
Male/Female Figurative Vases1989–9438
In 1987 Henry Geldzahler, Milton Glaser, and Hugh Hardy selected Dailey to make a cast glass relief mural titled Orbit, for the Rainbow Room at the Rockefeller Center. The mural is a 15-foot (4.6 m) by 8-foot (2.4 m) abstract representation of orbiting planets and artistic debris, illuminated from behind with changing colors coordinated with the mood lighting of the dining/dancing space. In 2018 Orbit was removed and donated to the Toledo Museum of Art. Dailey also created wall sconces for various locations around the Rainbow Room complex. These works were later removed and their location is unknown.
Henry Geldzahler wrote an essay for the catalog, in which he noted, "Dan Dailey's achievement is in the seamless marriage he effects in his work in every medium between the idiosyncratic convolutions of his inner landscape and the classic harmony and lucidity of the great tradition in glass, of whom Daum, Nancy and Lalique are giants. Dailey's work joins in that tradition, but with a contemporary spin that causes the viewer to smile in complicity." [12]
The exhibition, curated by Eleni Cocordas, consisted of fifty works, including illuminated sculpture, Vitrolite wall reliefs, vases, and pastel drawings.

1990s

Dailey work titled The Doctor from 1988 is accepted into their permanent collection.
26 special edition vases commissioned by the Boca Raton Museum of Art, Florida.
Dailey was invited to work as an independent artist by Waterford Crystal, Kilbarry, Ireland, in 1998. Dailey visited three times between 1998-1999 to create chandeliers, wall sconces, and seven engraved vases, using particular processes unique to the history and specialty of Waterford Crystal.
Series from the 1990s [9]
TitleDatesNo. of pieces
Characters from Literature19902
Mask Vases19905
Abstract Head Vases1990–9480
Figurative Lamps1990–ongoing111
Dailey/Tagliapietra Vases1992–9353
Animal Vessels1992–9850
Boca Palm Vases199326
Skyscraper New York Vases1993–9410
Art Deco Building Vases19955
Circus Vases1995–ongoing162

2000s

The Toledo Museum of Art, a museum whose major focus is on glass, asked Dailey to create a children's book explaining and illustrating the process of glassblowing. Dailey collaborated with Allison Dailey, who developed the characters and executed all of the final watercolor drawings for the book. The book is based on the making of a particular vase titled Alligator, from Dailey's Animal Vase series begun in 1992.
The book, a comprehensive view of Dailey's work from 1968 to 2007, includes 460 illustrations and 400 full-color images, and was designed and edited by Joe Rapone. Writing and essays are by Milton Glaser, Tina Oldknow, and William Warmus.
Dailey was asked to be a part of the G.A.P.P. The focus of the residency was to study and respond to the museum's collection, with a focus on landscape and paintings. Dailey's glass mural project for the museum was begun in 2008 and is now in progress.
Dailey conducted a series of artist interviews, in collaboration with Joe Rapone, which explore the notion of "Materialism", a term that includes a rethinking of movements of the 1970s, specifically the Studio Craft Movement.
Series from the 2000s [9]
TitleDatesNo. of pieces
Fabricated Music2001- ongoing
Individuals2004–ongoing15
Scenes2012–ongoing15

2010 and onward

Dailey named Professor Emeritus at Massachusetts College of Art and Design, Boston, MA
Distinguished Educator Award, Renwick Gallery of the Smithsonian American Art Museum
Lifetime Achievement Award, Glass Art Society

Public museum collections

United States

Europe

Other locations

Dan-Dailey-1987 Romance.jpg
Pistachio Lamp 1972
Private collection
Stars and Skyline 1980
Metropolitan Museum of Art
New York, NY
Anguish 1983
Milwaukee Art Museum
Milwaukee, WI
Romance1987
Huntington Museum of Art
Huntington, WV
Dan-Dailey-FV 170-95 Hawk and Dove Man PRINT.jpg Dan-Dailey-HV 04-88 The Doctor.jpg Dan-Dailey-1988 Fantasy.jpg
Hawk & Dove Man 1995
Currier Museum of Art
Manchester, NH
The Doctor 1988
Louvre Museum
Paris, France
Fantasy 1988
LA County Museum of Art
Los Angeles, CA
Opaque 1991
Royal Ontario Museum
Toronto, OB, Canada
Jest 1992
Dailey Archive
Alligator 1995
Corning Museum of Glass
Corning, NY
Gray Mandril 1993
Dayton Art Institute
Dayton, OH
Le Soleil 2003
Cristallerie Daum
Edition
Dance of Light 1999
Private Collection
Tribute 2003
Providence Performing Arts
Center Providence, RI
Splendid 2006
Private Collection
Swiveler 2009
Edition 3/7

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