David Gilhooly
David Gilhooly is known primarily for his ceramic sculpture of animals, food, planets and the FrogWorld. Gilhooly used his FrogWorld series to examine the world, past and present. It also allowed him ...
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David Gilhooly is known primarily for his ceramic sculpture of animals, food, planets and the FrogWorld. Gilhooly used his FrogWorld series to examine the world, past and present. It also allowed him to comment on social and political issues of the day. The frog theme reoccurred in his work for most of his career.
Gilhooly's use of low fired white earthenware allowed him to work with the very vibrant colors he needed for his food pieces. In the 1960s he studied at ceramics at UC Davis with Robert Arneson. It was there that, together with Arneson, Peter Vandenberge, Chris Unterseher and Margaret Dodd, Gilhooly formed part of what would become the San Francisco Bay Area Funk Ceramic Movement.
In 1982, Gilhooly started exploring the media of plexiglass, but still produced a number of ceramic pieces. In 1996 he left ceramics to work on plexiglass boxes reminiscent of the work of assemblage artist Joseph Cornell.
" - Apprenticeships & Residencies
- Primary Work Experience
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1967-1969
San Jose State College, San Jose, California
1969-1971University of Saskatchewan, Regina, Canada
1971-1977York University, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
1975-1976University of California, Davis
1978-1979California State University, Sacramento, Sacramento, California
1995-2013Studio Potter, Newport, Oregon
Other
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Arizona State University Museum of Art, Tempe, Arizona
Australia National Council, Canberra, Australia
Crocker Museum of Art, Sacramento, California
De Saisset Museum, University of Santa Clara, California
Honolulu Museum of Art, Honolulu, Hawai’i
Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, San Francisco, California
Jane Voorhees Zimmerli Art Museum, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, New Jersey
Louisiana State University Museum of Art, Baton Rouge, Louisiana
National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa, Canada
Museum of Arts and Design, New York, New York
Norton Museum of Art, West Palm Beach, Florida
Oakland Museum of California, Oakland, California
Palm Springs Art Museum, Palm Springs, California
Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
San Antonio Museum of Art, San Antonio, Texas
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, California
San Jose Museum of Art, San Jose, California
Smithsonian American Art Museum, Renwick Gallery, Washington, D.C.
Stanford University, Palo Alto, California
Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, Netherlands
University of California, Santa Barbara, California
Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
- Bibliography
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Baker, Kenneth. David Gilhooly. Davis, California: John Natsoulas Press, 1992.
Bloom, Gordon. A Bay Area Connection: Works from the Anderson Collection. Santa Clara, California: Triton Museum of Art. 1995.
Clark, Garth and Suzanne Foley Clark. A Fire for Ceramics: Contemporary Art from the Daniel Jacobs and Derek Mason Collection. Richmond, VA: Hand Workshop Art Center, 1998.
DePaoli, Geri, ed. Elvis and Marilyn: 2X Immortal. New York, NY: Rizzoli International Publications Inc., 1994.
Landauer, Susan and Karen Kienzle. The Lighter Side of Bay Area Figuration. San Jose, California: San Jose Museum of Art, 2000.
Lauria, Jo. Color and Fire, Defining Moments in Studio Ceramics, 1950-2000. Los Angeles, CA: Los Angeles County Museum of Art in association with Rizzoli International Publications, Inc., 2000.
Levin, Elaine. The History of American Ceramics from Pipkins and Bean Pots to Contemporary Forms. New York, NY: Henry N. Abrams, Inc. Publishers, 1988.
Peterson, Susan. Working with Clay. Upper Saddle River, NJ: Prentice Hall, 1999.
Zhou, Guangzhe, Po, "David Gilhooly and His Frog World.” Artist Magazine, 1997.
__________________. American Ceramic Artists Today. Beijing, People's Republic of China.1998.
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Citation: David Gilhooly, "The Marks Project."
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