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Duane Dahl’s love of nature is manifest in his preference for using richness of texture and form rather than color to carry his message.
Dahl grew up in the Pacific Northwest where the region’s many influences made a strong impact on him, the reverence for nature, the understatement of the eastern aesthetic, and the ethic of individuality. His move to Santa Fe in 1982 added another, more introspective aspect to his work. His professional background includes experience in graphic arts, serigraphy, theatrical and film set construction and display design. Dahl’s introduction to kiln formed glass twenty years ago proved to be the key to integrating all of theses various experiences into a career in art glass. His commissioned architectural glass work can be seen nationally in restaurants such as Wolfgang Puck’s Granita in Malibu California, Mark Miller’s Red Sage in Washington DC, and Casa Sena in Santa Fe. His work has been shown or discussed in Food and Wine magazine, American Theme Restaurants, The Absolut Book, Restaurants that Work, Metropolitan Home, Country Home magazines, and At Home with Carol Burnett on HGTV. A piece commissioned by Absolut Vodka was used in their national ad campaign. He created eight light fixtures and two wall sculptures for the new Smithsonian National Museum of the American Indian, which opened in September 2004 in Washington DC. The future holds further exploration into the qualities of glass, especially in the context of its marriage with other materials- metal, concrete, wood, and paper in large scale sculptures. |
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