Arthur Gonzalez |
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BORN IN 1954, SACRAMENTO, CALIFORNIA
EDUCATION
1981 M.F.A., University of California, Davis.
1979 M.A., California State University, Sacramento
1977 B.A., California State University, Sacramento
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2009 Harvey/Meadows Gallery, Aspen, CO., “Arthur Gonzalez”
2007 John Natsoulas Gallery, Davis, CA. “A Question of Balance”
2006 Galerie Pierre, Taichung, Taiwan, “Arthur Gonzalez, Personal Exhibition”
John Natsoulas Gallery, Davis, CA, “Sour Grapes” works on rejection slips
2004 Daum Museum, Sedalia, Missouri, “Bay Area Ceramic Sculptors: Second Generation”
Santa Fe Clay, Santa Fe, New Mexico “Arthur Gonzalez”
2003 St. Louis Community College, St Louis, Missouri.“What Tool Must I use... The work of Arthur Gonzalez”
John Natsoulas Gallery, Davis California. “Saging”
Noel Gallery, Charlotte, North Carolina. “Arthur Gonzalez”
2002 John Elder Gallery, New York , New York “The Horizon is Sitting Beside You”
2000 Delta College Art Gallery, Stockton, CA. “`The View From The Equator: Arthur Gonzalez, A Survey Exhibition, 1985-2000”
Susan Cummins Gallery, Mill Valley, CA. “The Cadence of Stupidity”
1999 Jon Elder Gallery, New York, NY. “The Cadence of Stupidity”
Natsoulas Gallery, Davis, CA.“The Cadence of Stupidity”work inspired by the Carlo CollodiStory
Portland Community College, Portland, Oregon, “Arthur Gonzalez”
1998 Scripps Annual Invitational, Scripps College, Claremont, CA. “Arthur Gonzalez”
1997 Susan Cummins Gallery, Mill Valley, CA. “Above and Below”
University Art Gallery, California State University, Chico “One’s Own Spirit”
1996 Cuesta College Art Gallery, San Luis Obispo, CA. “Open Books, Open Minds”
1995 John Natsoulas Gallery, Davis, CA. “Summer Subjects”
Phyllis Kind Gallery, New York, New York, “Arthur Gonzalez”
1994 Monique Knowlton Gallery/Kent, Kent, CT., “Arthur Gonzalez”
1992 John Natsoulas Gallery, Davis, CA., “At Heart Level” (catalog)
1991 Creative Growth Gallery, Oakland, CA, “Out of Bounds”
Koplin Gallery, Santa Monica, CA., “Hybrids: New Sculpture”
1990 Michael Himovitz Gallery, Sacramento, CA., “Drawings from Purgatory and Limbo”
Susan Cummins Gallery, Mill Valley, CA, “Arthur Gonzalez: Survey of Work 1982-1989”
California College of Arts & Crafts Downtown Gallery,Oakland,CA.“Arthur Gonzalez”
1988 Natsoulas/Noveloso Gallery, Davis, CA., “Before and After Greece”
Robert Kidd Gallery, Birmingham, Michigan “Arthur Gonzalez”
Sharpe Gallery, New York, New York, “Messengers & Travelers”
1987 Allrich Gallery, San Francisco, CA., “Two Weeks in Hawaii”
Himovitz/ Solomon Gallery, Sacramento, CA, “Drawings and Monotypes”
1986 The Gallery, University of Vermont, Burlington, VT, “Ceramic Sculpture”
Himovitz/Solomon Gallery, Sacramento, CA. “Highway Pi”
Sharpe Gallery, New York, New York, “Arthur Gonzalez”
1985 Sharpe Gallery, New York, New York, “Arthur Gonzalez”
1984 University Art Gallery, University of Georgia, Athens. “Arthur Gonzalez”
Himovitz/Solomon Gallery, Sacramento, CA., “Return”
Sharpe Gallery, New York, New York, “Arthur Gonzalez”
1983 Gallery II, Baton Rouge, LA. “Modern Art For The Serious Home”
1982 University Art Gallery, University of Georgia, Athens. “Junior Artist-in-Residence”
1981 Richard Nelson Gallery, University of California, Davis, “A Man & His City”
1980 The Candy Store Gallery, Folsom, CA, “The Rabbit Hunt”
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2008 Sacramento Public Library, “TB-9 Revisited”, Sacramento, CA.
Natsoulas Gallery.”Thirty Ceramics Sculptors”, Davis, California
Museo Internazionale di Arti Applicate Oggi, “The Grand Ceramics Theatre” Torino, Italy
Lamar Dodd Art Center, “LaGrange National,” LaGrange, Georgia
Aspen Art Museum, “ARAC@AAM: Anderson Ranch at the Aspen Att Museum”, Aspen CO.
2007 Santa Fe Clay, “Seven Deadly Sins”, Sante Fe, New Mexico
John Natsoulas Gallery, SOFA Art Fair, Chicago Navy Pier, Chicago, Illonois
University of California Santa Cruz, “Nor Cal Clay”
University of Akron Art Gallery, Akron, Ohio, “All the Difference: Works in Clay”
Turman Lrson Contemporary, Helena, Montana, “Northwest Figurative Ceramic Sculpture”
John Natsoulas Gallery, Davis, California “30 Ceramic Sculptors” CCACA Conference
Richmond Art Center, Richmond, CA, “Dirty Dozen”
Natsoulas Gallery,Louisiville Convention Center, Louiville, Kentucky, SOFA /NCECA
Danny Simmons Corridor Gallery, Brooklyn, New York “3Dc: Discover, Define and Discuss Contemporary Craft”
2006 The Parkland Art Gallery, Champaign, IL. “Biennial Ceramics Invitatinal 2006”
Santa Fe Clay, Santa Fe , New Mexico “Tell Me A Story”
Oliver Art Center, Oakland California, “On Making”
Montgomery Museum of Fine Arts Montgomery, Alabama “Poetic Expressions of Mortality”
Mobile Museum of Art, Mobile, Alabama “Poetic Expressions of Mortality’ Porter Price Collection
Xen Gallery, Sanit Louis, Missouri, “Likeness / The Human Form in Clay”
2004 Santa Fe Clay, Santa Fe, New Mexica, “Election 2004”
Mason Muller Fine Arts, Atlanta,GA. “The Fall Show”
Fuller Museum of Art, Lincoln, Mass.“The Perfect Collection: A Shared Vision for Contemporary Craft”
Mint Museum, Charlotte, North Carolina, “The Nature of Craft and The Penland Experience”
2003 Crocker Art Museum, Sacramento, CA. “The Plot Hill Collection of Conemporary Art”
Santa Fe Clay Gallery, Santa Fe, New Mexico “Hundreds of Cups”
Museum of Arts & Sciences, Macon, Georgia, “Trans-mission”
2002 Penland School of Craft, Penland, North Carolina. “Relevance of Making”
Chicago Navy Pier, Chicago. Ill. , “Virginia Groot Award Recipients”
Woodbury Gallery at Utah Valley State College. “The 17th Annual 30 Ceramic Sculptors”
Craft Alliance, Saint Louis, Missouri, “The Body in Clay” (curated by Joe Bova)
Dirt Gallery, Kansas City , Missouri, “Crude”
Byron Cohen Gallery, Kansas City, Missouri
2001 Santa Fe Clay, Santa Fe, NM. “Birds, Beasts and Little Fishes”
Encina Art Gallery, Sacramento, CA. “Private Eye”
DeCordova Museum and Sculpture Park, Lincoln, MASS, “Terrors and Wonders: Monsters in Contemporary Art”
Benefit Auction for the Mendacino Art Center, Davis. CA. “The Gegnome Project”
John Natsoulas Gallery, Davis, CA. “The Holiday Group Show”
Flint Institute of Arts, Flint , MI. “Confrontational Clay, the artist as social critic”
Springfield Museum of Art., Springfield, OH. “Confrontational Clay”
The Middlebury College Museum of Art, Middlebury, VT. “Confrontational Clay”
2000 Susan Cummins Gallery, Mill Valley, CA. “Perching of the Soul”
Bedford Gallery, Walnut Creek, CA. “From the Fire: Figures in Ceramic”
The Mint Museum of Craft and Design , Charlotte, NC. “The Chasanoff Collection”
The Arkansas Art Center, Little Rock, Arkansas, “Confrontational Clay”
Philharmonic Center or the Arts,Naples,Fla.,“Confrontational Clay, the artist as social critic”
University of Central Florida, Orlando, Fla., “Confrontational Clay, the artist as social critic”
The Arvada Center for the Arts and Humanities, Arvada, CO., “A Glimpse of the Invisable”
The NCECA 2000 Invitational Exhibition (catalog)
Encina Art Gallery, Encina Art Gallery, Sacramento, CA. “Heart of the Future: part 3”
Nicholas Davies Gallery, New York, NY., “Ruling Passions”
1999 b. sakata garo, Sacramento, CA “Group Show”
Riley HawkGallery,Columbus, Ohio“Looking in theMirror: AspectsofFigurativeCeramics”
1998 Oliver Art Center, Oakland, CA, “Drop/Add”
Richmond Art Center, Richmond, CA “More Than Clay” the Toki Collection of Ceramics
Natsoulas Gallery, Davis, CA. “All Creatures Great & Small” (also 1986-1997)
Natsoulas Gallery, Davis, CA. “Thirty Ceramic Sculptors” (also 1986-1997)
SMUD building Lobby Gallery, Sacramento,CA. “Four on the Wall”
The Lef Foundation, St. Helena, CA.,”Sculptural Perspectives for the New Millennium”
Richmond Art Center, Richmond, CA, “More Than Clay: The Toki Collection of Ceramics”
Pence Gallery, Davis, CA. “More Than Clay: The Toki Collection of Ceramics”
1997 American River College Art Gallery, Sacramento, CA. “Many People/ Many Media”
Oliver Art Center,Oakland, CA., “Ceramic Still Life: The Common Object” (catalog)
Barrick Museum, University of Nevada, Las Vegas“NCECA Clay National 1997”
Bally’s Las Vegas, Nevada, NCECCA,“Salt & Pepper”
Encina Art Gallery, Sacramento, CA. “Class Reunion: CSUS/50”
Udinatti Gallery, Scottsdale, Arizona.
SOFA Art Fair, Miami, Florida, Susan Cummins Booth
Nevada Institute of Contemporary Art, Las Vegas, NV.
“New Movement in Contemporary Lifesize Figurative Ceramic Sculpture”
Art Department Gallery, Santa Clara University, CA.“Ceramics Invitational”
Barton County Community College Shafer Art Gallery, Great Bend, Kansas. “From Plastic Form to Printer’s Plate”
1996 McDonough Museum of Art Youngstown State University, Youngstown, Ohio. “From Plastic Form to Printer’s Plate”
Irving Arts Center, Irving, Texas, “From Plastic Form to Printer’s Plate”
Western Washington University. Western Gallery. Bellingham, Washington “From Plastic Form to Printer’s Plate”
Canton Museum of Art, Canton, Ohio. “From Plastic Form to Printer’s Plate”
Udinotti Gallery, Scottsdale, Arizona
K & E Gallery, New York, New York,“Alternation”
John Natsoulas Gallery,Davis,CA., “The Robert Arneson Tribute Exhibition”
The Sun Gallery, Hayward, CA., “Ceramic Figurative Art of Northern California”
Fort Mason Center, San Francisco, CA., “Exposition of American Art” (also 1992-1995)
Santa Monica Civic Auditorium, Los Angeles, CA.,”L.A.. Modernism Exposition”
Maple Hill Gallery, West Stockbridge, MA, “The second annual “Berkshire Clay National”
Phantom Galleries, Sacramento, CA, “White Gallery Reunion Show”
UniversityArtGallery,SonomaStateUniv.Rohnert Park,CA,“CLAY RecentCeramicSculpture”
The Colorado College, Coburn Gallery, “American Figurative Clay”,Colorado Springs,CO
1995 The Lamont Gallery. Phillips Exeter Academy, Exeter, New Hampshire, “From Plastic Form to Printer’s Plate”
Navy Pier, Chicago, SOFA Exposition.
IV Mostra Mercato, Faenza, Italy “La Ceramica Del ‘900”
Encina Art Gallery, Sacramento, CA. “Chicano/Latino Art”
John Natsoulas Gallery, Davis, CA. “The Figure”
New Jersey Center for the Arts, Summit, New Jersey, “Myth and Reality”
1994 Los Angeles International Art Fair, “Art L.A.. Exposition, (also 1990-1993)
Kingsborough Community College, Brooklyn, New York, “Tribute to Robert Arneson: Changing the Face of American Ceramics”
Contemporary Craft Museum, San Francisco, CA. “Tastes and Trends”
Honolulu Academy of Arts HI, “2nd Annual Pacific Rim Sculpture Conference Exhibit”
The Center of Northern Thai Handcrafts, Chaiing Mai, Thailand, “Tell Me A Story”
Calcutta , India “Tell Me A Story”
Mills Building, San Francisco, CA. (Through the Contemporary Craft Museum) “Local Media; Within and beyond Traditions.”
Clark Gallery, Lincoln, Mass. “CLAY Figure & Function”
Monique Knowlton Gallery /Kent, Kent, CT, “The Domestic Landscape”
Newcomb Gallery, Tulane University, New Orleans, LA. “Presence & Scale”
New Delhi, India “The Triennial, Tell Me A Story”, also in Calcutta and Bombay
1993 Susan Cummins Gallery, Mill Valley, CA, “Small Scale Sculpture”
Oliver Art Center,California College of Arts & Crafts,Oakland, “Nine decades of California Craft”
Olone College, Fremont, CA, “Go Figure”
Honolulu Academy of Arts, The Academy Art Center at Linekona, Honolulu, Hawaii,
“First Annual Pacific Rim Ceramic Sculpture”
William Traver Gallery, Seattle, WA., “Clay 19934: A National Survey”
Artists Contemporary Gallery, Sacramento, CA, “The Next Generation”
Phyllis Kind Gallery, New York, New York, “M’aidez/Mayday”
California Crafts Museum, San Francisco, CA, “West Coast Clay”
I.D.E.A.. Gallery, Sacramento, CA., ‘Bout Bicycles”
The Taft Museum, Cincinnati, Ohio, “Tell Me A Story”
Walter A. Buehler Alumni and Visitor Center. UC, Davis, “Art Studio Alumni Exhibition”
The Sterilization Plant, “San Pablo, CA., “New Year’s Group Exhibition”
Univ. Art Gallery, California State Univ. Hayward, “Large Scale Figurative Ceramics”
1992 Oliver Art Center, California College of Arts & Crafts, Oakland, CA,
“From Plastic Form to Printer’s Plate: 16 Contemporary Sculptor/ Printmakers
San Diego State University, San Diego.CA. “Social Figuration”
Robert Kidd Gallery, Birmingham, MI., Sculpture/Glass, Sculpture/Clay
The Society for Contemporary Crafts, Pittsberg,PA., “Figurative Clay (catalog)
California College of Arts & Crafts Gallery, Oakland, CA. “New Faculty”
Clark Gallery, Lincoln, Mass., “The Sculptural Object”
John Natsoulas Gallery, Davis, CA. “Holy Night”
1991 The American Craft Museum, N.Y., N.Y. “The Collector’s Eye” a benefit auction (catalog)
Crocker Art Museum,Sacramento, CA, “Crocker/Kingsley-Centenial Exhibition. (catalog)
Allrich Gallery, San Francisco, CA., “Twenty-Five Years Celebration”
NCECA Conference, Tempe, AZ, “Minor Art by Major Artists”
Grand Canyon University, Phoenix, AZ, “The Human Forms as Mythical Vessel”
The University of Hawaii at Manoa Art Gallery, Honolulu, Hawaii
“The Fourth International Shoebox Sculpture Exhibition (catalog)
Muckenthaler Cultural Center, Fullerton,CA,“CulturalPerspectivesoftheNineties”(catalog”)
The Convention Center, L.A., CA., “Art of California Magazine Discovery Award Exhibit
1990 Allrich Gallery, San Francisco, CA, “The Figure”, an exhibition of collected work.
Koplin Gallery, The Convention Center, Los Angeles,CA. “The L.A.. Art Expo”
“The Fortress”, Savona, Italy, “National Ceramic Bienalle, California Sculptors”
The National Museum of Ceramic Art, “American Ceramic Sculpture”, Baltimore,MD.
Susan Cummins Gallery, Chicago Navy Pier, Chicago, IL, Chicago Navy Pier, Chicago, Il,”Chicago International Exposition”
1989 Dinnerware, Tucson, AZ, “The Human Form as Mythical essel, Figures in clay: A National Invitation”
Everson Museum of Art, Syracuse, N.Y. “The 28th Ceramic National”
Walter/McBean Gallery, San Francisco Art Institute, San Francisco,CA, “Fool’s Fantasy”
John Michael Kohler Arts Center, Sheboygan, WI,”Surrealist Ceramics”
Allrich Gallery, San Francisco,CA. “Group Show”
Main Art Gallery, Visual Arts Center, California State University Fullerton, “Contemporary Ceramics: The Artists of TB 9”
Lamar Dodd Art Center, La Grange, Georgia, “La Grange National XIV”
Palo Alto Cultural Center, Palo Alto, CA, “Ceramic Traditions: The Figure”
Garth Clark Gallery, New York, N.Y., and Los Angeles, CA., “The Portrait Pot”
Metropolitan Life Gallery, NY, NY “Ancient Explorations-5 Contemporary Sculptors”
Natsoulas/ Noveloso Gallery, Davis, CA. “Artists for Amnesty”
Art Gallery of Western Australia, Perth, Australia, “First Perth International Crafts Triennial”
Natsoulas/Noveloso Gallery, Davis, CA. “Drawing for Funk’s Sake!”
1988 Allrich Gallery, San Francisco, CA., “Group Show”
Euphrat Gallery, De Anza College,Cupertino,CA., “Clay etc,.Works- On The Wall/ Off The Wall”
Artists Contemporary Gallery,Sacramento, CA. “Artists in Crisis Benefit Exhibition”
Greenville County Museum of Art, Greenville, SC, “Imprimatur”
1987 Philbrook Art Center, Tulsa, OK, “The Eloquent Object”
Works Gallery, Philadelphia, PA. “Invitational Exhibition: Ceramics 1987”
J.B. Speed Art Museum, Louisville, KY, “What’s New: American Ceramics Since 1900”
San Francisco Arts Commission Gallery; SF, CA. “Figurative Ceramic Sculpture: Mother Earth”
Sacred Heart Schools, Menlo Park, CA, “Los Animales del Sol”
1986 Esther Saks Gallery, Chicago, Il., “interior Images”
Japan/American Exchange Exhibition, City Gallery, Kobe, Japan “Artbridge”
Jay Gallery, New York, N.Y.
Sharpe Gallery, New York, N.Y. “Group Show”
Haggerty Museum of Art, Marquette University, Milwaukee, WIS. “Romanticism and Cynicism on Contemporary Art”
Robert Kidd Gallery, Birmingham, MI., “Major Concepts: Clay”
1985 Hal Bromm, New York, New York. “New Sculpture”
The Rotunda Gallery, Brooklyn, N.Y., Earth Transformed by Fire: Ceramic Sculpture
Palo Alto Cultural Center,Palo Alto, CA., “Imagination”
New Paltz Gallery, SUNY at New Paltz, New York, “In The Eye of the Beholder: A Portrait of OurTime”
Newport Harbor Art Museum,Newport Beach,CA,“Contemporary American Ceramics:20 Artists”
Allen Frumkin Gallery, New York, N.Y. “Outline/Cutout/Silhouette”
Palo Alto Cultural Center, Palo Alto, CA. “Satirical Art Since 1970”
Memorial Union Art Gallery, Davis, CA. “Multiple Viewpoints; Seven Contemporary American Sculptors”
Puck Building, New York, N.Y., “I.C.I.. Tenth Anniversary Exhibition”
Himovitz/Solomon Gallery, Sacramento, CA., “Baker’s Dozen”
University Museum, Univ. of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM “Recent Ceramic Sculpture”
1984 Artist’s Space, New York, NY, “New Galleries From the Lower East Side”
Clark Gallery, Lincoln,MASS. “Daniel Jacobs Collection, Imagined Icons”
DeCordova Museum, Lincoln, Mass., A Passionate Vision: The Daniel Jacobs Collection
P.S. 1, Long Island City, NY, “The New Portrait”
Allen Frumkin Gallery, New York, NY., “Notes From the Underground”
Santa Barbara Gallery, New York, NY., UCSB, Santa Barbara, CA, “Neo-York (catalog)
“Neo-York: report on a phenomenon”
1983 Sharpe Gallery, New York, New York., “Self Image”
Sharpe Gallery, New York, NY, “Sex!”
1982 Hecsher Museum, Long Island, N.Y., “Selections from the Daniel Jacobs Collection”
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Tedd Prudhomme, Say, “Arthur Gonzalez: Iconographer of Clay (Interview), Oct. p.15.
Timothy Cohes, Arts, “Hudson River Editions-Pelavin Editions:
A Report From the Other World of Printmaking”, Nov. pp. 41-43.
Alex Brownstein,The Vermont Cynic“Gonzalez’s Surrealistic Presentation at L/L,Nov,6,p.14
1985 Mikhail Horowitz, Kingston Freeman, “Life” section, March 31.
William Zimmer, American Ceramics, “Arthur Gonzalez: Of Melodramas,Moviestars, and Modern Times”, Vol. 4, #1, pp.38-43\
Camelia Padilla,New Mexico Daily Lobo“ExhibitProves Ceramics MoreThanJustPots”11/12
1984 Michael McTwigan, American Ceramics, “A Passionate Vision: the Daniel Jacobs Collection, Vol. 13
Carlo McCormick, New York Beat, Art Takes II, April 14.
1983 Staff Reporter, NCECA Journal, “Arthur Gonzalez”, Vol.4
Ellen Handy, Arts, “Emergence: New From the Lower East Side,” Nov. p. 5.
PUBLICATIONS
2005 500 Figurative in Clay: Lark Books: Suzanne Tourtillott, Editor
Figurative Ceramics,; Lark Books,; Suzanne Tourtillott, Editor
2004 The Eve Aesthetic, Nancy Servis
The Nature of Craft and the Penland Experience, Lark Books
Four California Sculptors, The Second Generation, The Daum Museum
Craft and Art of Clay, fourth edition, published by Prentice Hall, by Overlook’Viking (SusanPeterson)
2003 Understanding Art, Fourth Addition by Lois Fitchner-Rathus page 210
2002 Visual Perspectives: 14 Years of the Virginia A Groot Awards, by Margaret Carney, Virginia A. Groot Fouondation, Il.
Ceramics, A Potter’s Handbook, sixth edition by Glen C. Nelson and Richard Burkett, plate 47
The Penland Book of Ceramics, Delores Gosnell, Lark Books, Sterling Publishing Co.
2000 Confrontational Clay: The Artist as Social Critic , Judith S. Schwartz,Exhibits USA
1999 The Cadence of Stupidity The Works of Arthur Gonzalez, text by Duane Chin Lui, John Natsoulas
1998 The California Art Review, Les Kratz Publisher, American References Publishing
Who’s Who in American Art, Amy Furman,Senior Editor, R.R. Bowker, Publisher
Who’s Who in the World, Marquis Who’s Who, New Providence,
Make it in Clay: A Beginner’s Guide to Ceramics, CharlotteSpeight ,John Toke, Mayfield Publishing Co.
1997 American Ceramic Arts Today, Poslin G. Zhou, China
1996 Who’s Who Among Hispanic Americans. Gale Research Inc. (3rd Edition)
1994 Hands in Clay, Charlotte Spreight and John Toke, Mayfield Publishing Co.
1993 Contemporary Ceramics: A Step Toward the Future, Hongik Univ. Ceramic Research Inst.1992
1992 Arthur Gonzalez: At Heart Level, by Katherine Chapin, John Natsoulas Press,Davis, CA.
1990 The 28th Ceramic National: Clay, Color, Content 1990 Everson Museum of ArtSyracuse,NY
Encyclopedia of Ceramics, by Teturo Murobushi, Japan Art Publishing Co. Tokyo, Japan
American Artists, An Illustrated Survey of Leading Contemporaries Les Kratz Publisher American References Publishing
1989 American Ceramics from the collection of the Everson Museum
1988 Contemporary American Craft Art: A Collector’s Guide, Barbara Mayer, Gibbs M. Smith Inc.
The History of American Ceramics: from Pipkins and Bean Pots to Contemporary Forms, 1607 to the Present, Elaine Levin, Henry M. Abrams Inc.
1987 American Ceramics-1876 to the Present, Garth Clark, Abbeyville Press.
The Eloquent Object, Marsha Manhart, The Washington Press,
1984 Neo-York, Phyllis Plous & Mary Looker. Univ. of Santa Barbara Press.
PUBLIC COLLECTIONS
Daum Museum, Sedalia, MO.
KC Lanson & Associates, New York, NY
Yale University Art Gallery. New Haven, CT.
Tempe Museum, Tempe, AZ.
Alta Bates Corp., Emeryville, CA.
Crocker Art Museum, Sacramento, CA. (two pieces)
Rutgers University, New Brunswick, N.J.
Prudential Insurance Co., New York, N.Y.
American Express Co., New York,N.Y.
Everson Museum of Art, Syracuse, N.Y.
Burston Marsteller Co., New York, N.Y.
The Mint Museum, Charlotte, N.C.
The American Craft Museum, New York, N.Y.
California State University, Sacramento , CA.
The Mexican Museum, San Francisco, CA.
University of California. Davis (Art Department, and Library)
Oakland Museum,Oakland, California (two pieces)
Honolulu Academy of Arts, Honolulu, Hawaii
University of Akron, Ohio
TEACHING EXPERIENCE
1991-present Associate Professor, California College of the Arts (formerly CCAC)
2005 Instructor. Anderson Ranch, Snowmass Village, CO (2 week workshop) (Scheduled)
2004 Instructor, Penland School of Craft, Penland NC(2 week workshop) Drawing
2003 Instructor, Anderson Ranch, Snowmass Village, CO (2 week workshop)
Instructor, Mendacino Art Center, Mendacino, CA (1 week workshop)
2001 Instructor, Haystack, Maine (2 week workshop)
Instructor, Mendacino Art Center, Mendacino, CA (weekend workshop)
2000 Instructor, Sante Fe Clay, Sante Fe, New Mexico (1 week workshop)
1999 Instructor, Penland School of Craft. Penland, NC(2 week workshop) Drawing
1997 Instructor, Penland School of Craft, Penland, NC (2 week workshop) Ceramics
1991 Instructor, San Francisco Art Institute
1989 Instructor, San Francisco Art Institute
1988 Instructor, University of California, Berkeley
1985 Instructor, University of California, Davis
Instructor Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, Rhode Island
1984 Instructor, The New School for Social Research, New York, N.Y.
Instructor, University of Georgia, Athens
1983 Artist in Residence, Louisiana State University at Baton Rouge
1982 Instructor, University of Georgia Studies Abroad Program, Corton, Italy
1981 Junior Artist-in-Residence, University of Georgia, Athens
AWARDS, HONORS, RESIDENCIES, AND PUBLIC COMMISSIONS
2005 Fred Waring Corridor, Palm Desert, California ......”The Baja Palapa” (commission)
2003 Gerbode Foundation Award
2002 University of Ohio, Akron, Artist-in -Residency, Akron, Ohio
2001 Warhol Foundation/Penland School of Crafts Artist-in-Residency Award , Penland, NC
1997 Virginia Groot Foundation Award (first place)
1996 Teravel Police Station, San Francisco, CA.”A Peacable Kingdom” (commission)
1994 California Arts Council Fellowship
1992 Virginia Groot Foundation Award (second place)
National Foundation for Advancement in the Arts Residency in southern Florida (declined)
1991 Sacramento Mental Health Facility. Sacramento, CA. (commission)
Art of California Magazine Discovery Award (Gold & Bronze Medal)
1990 Metropolitan Transit Authority, New York, NY The Seekers and the Finder”(commission)
National Endowment of the Arts Individual Artist Fellowship
1986 Skowhegan School of Art, Skowhegan,Maine. Artist in Residence, (declined)
National Endowment of the Arts Individual Artist Fellowship
1985 Virginia Center for the Arts, Sweet Brier, Virginia. Artist in Residence (declined)
1984 National Endowment of the Arts Individual Artist Fellowship
1982 National Endowment of the Arts Individual Artist Fellowship
1981 University of Georgia, Athens Ford Foundation Junior Artist in Residency.
VISITING LECTURES AND DEMONSTRATIONS
2005 CCACA , Davis, California
University of Florida, Gainsville
University Mass, Dartmouth2004 The Hallmark Lecture Series, University of Kansas, Lawrence
South Seattle Community College, Seattle, Washington2003 Meramec Community College, St. Louis, Missouri
Washington University, St. Louis, Missouri
Forest Park Community College, St. Louis, Missouri
Webster University, St. Louis, Missouri
Arts Benicia , “Terra Forma: , (Juror) , Benicia, California2002 Oregon Potters Association, South Portland, Oregon
University of Miami, Miami. Florida
Clay Space on Puget Sound, Suquamish,Washington2000 Delta College, Stockton, CA. 1999 Portland Community College, Portland , Oregon
Winona State University, Minnisota