NORFOLK, VA — Carolyn and Richard Barry Curator of Glass Carolyn Swan Needell has chosen Repair by Dan Dailey to feature as the Chrysler Museum’s “Object of the Week” for June 24, 2020. Part of the museum's permanent collection, Repair is one of twenty vases from Dailey's Automobile Vase series that he produced in 1983.
“A viewer must move all the way around the vase to see the complete image and understand the story and personas the artist conveys. The graphic nature of Dailey’s work is sometimes compared to that of a comic strip, but there is no real beginning or end to the scene that unfolds around the vase. ”
An exhibition of Dailey’s figurative work titled "Dan Dailey: Character Sketch" opened at the museum February 21. The show features 33 works that span four decades of the artist’s career.