Updated Chihuly exhibition will open in March
OKLAHOMA CITY (December 6, 2024) —The Oklahoma City Museum of Art (OKCMOA) would like to extend a reminder that the exhibition Chihuly Then and Now: The Collection at Twenty will close on Jan. 5, 2025. Visitors have just one month left to see Chihuly works never before seen in Oklahoma.
Chihuly Then and Now, organized by OKCMOA, opened in the summer of 2022 to celebrate two decades of the collection. Earlier this year, the exhibition was extended into January 2025 due to popular demand. The exhibition features five decades of glass and painting and tells a comprehensive story of iconic glass artist Dale Chihuly’s groundbreaking career. It also features loans of some of Chihuly’s more recent works from his Merletto and Rotolo series, which will go off view once the exhibition closes.
“We are proud to have as a major part of our permanent collection one of the world’s largest public collections of Dale Chihuly glass,” said OKCMOA President and CEO Michael Anderson, PhD. “As we bring one Chihuly exhibition to a close and prepare to open another, we reflect on what his work means for our community and invite our visitors to experience his signature use of form, color, and innovation here at OKCMOA.”
On March 8, 2025, the exhibition will reopen as Dale Chihuly: The Oklahoma Collection, featuring newly installed works from the Museum’s permanent collection. This reimagined exhibition will allow visitors to experience the full scope of OKCMOA’s Chihuly collection and will feature newly installed works like Confetti Anemone Wall as well as favorites such as Neodymium Reeds, Ikebana Boat, the Oklahoma Persian Ceiling, and more. It will also mark the return of video to the galleries to illustrate the artist’s process.
Also closing on Jan. 5 is Picasso and the Progressive Proof: Linocut Prints from a Private Collection. Organized by Townsend Art Advisory LLC, the exhibition examines the printmaking output of legendary Spanish artist Pablo Picasso (1881-1973) in the last years of his life and highlights three prints and their various proofs.
As visitors make plans to see these exhibitions before they close, they can also look forward to a set of new galleries opening on the Museum’s third floor. Opening Dec. 20, Land Use: Humanity’s Interaction with Nature is an original single-gallery installation that will feature modern and contemporary photographs, video art, digital art, and paintings—including a work by Ed Ruscha—that relate to humanity’s use of and interaction with the environment.
Also opening Dec. 20 is Postwar Abstraction, which will highlight the various ways that artists—especially those in the United States—approached abstraction during the postwar period.
Members and children 17 and under see these and all other exhibitions for free. For more information on memberships and to purchase tickets, please visit okcmoa.com.
Chihuly Then and Now is organized by the Oklahoma City Museum of Art in cooperation with Dale Chihuly and Chihuly Studio and is presented by Inasmuch Foundation, Jeaneen Eddie Naifeh, and Glenna and Richard Tanenbaum.
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Image Credit: Dale Chihuly, Merletto Basket Set, 2019, 12 x 28 x 22″, © 2024 Chihuly Studio. All rights reserved.
