Robert Arneson

Born 1930 in CaliforniaIn 1949, Arneson began studies at the College of Marin, Kenfield, CA. Three years later he received a scholarship to California the College of Arts and Crafts in Oakland, where he received his B.A. During this same year he began a serious interest in ceramics. In 1958, he earned his MFA from Mills College, also in Oakland. Several years later, he received an appointment to teach Art and Design at the University of California, Davis. This same year he was part of a two-person show at the M.H. DeYoung Museum, San Francisco. Throughout his nearly thirty-year teaching career, his colleagues included Roy De Forest, Manuel Neri, Wayne Thiebaud and William T. Wiley. Two significant exhibitions of his work, especially relevant to the Arts Center's drawing, have been a retrospective (1963-72) of ceramics and drawings at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago and San Francisco Museum of Art (1974) and "Robert Arneson: Self-Portraits," Moore College of Art, Philadelphia (1979). He has been in numerous prominent group exhibitions and had been represented throughout his career by Alan Frumkin Gallery, Chicago and New York. Robert Arneson intended to become a ceramic artist. He "was going to be an artist not a potter." In the 1960s he gave a twist to popular imagery in his ceramic sculptures of "pop" bottles, telephones, toasters, toilets, and typewriters with Surrealist resonances inspired by the Dada protest of World War I, especially the shocks and word games of Duchamp's Fountain, for instance, and work by Man Ray. These objects were curatorially appropriated into a Bay Area "new wave," given the catchy name "funk art." The term is drawn from Black American blues and particularly the unpretentious, gospel-tinged country blues, often referred to as "dirty" or "low down." Included in the funk group were Joan Brown, Bruce Conner, James Melchert, Harold Paris, William T. Wiley and Peter Voulkos, artists who shared concern for honest, earthy, and irreverent expression. In the 1970s Arneson moved to portraiture and self-portrature of an ironic sort.Gifted in drawing, it was always a primary medium for his thought and the development of ideas, but it also became an end product for finished "presentation drawings" as his work evolved. He worked on sheets of paper and on wallboard with a spontaneous and expressive hand. Some of his independent drawing ideas came to influence his sculpture. In a work such as Portrait of George Moscone, 1981--the assassinated Mayor of San Francisco--Arneson found a vehicle to carry his drawing improvisations onto the sculpture's pedestal, again in a controversial manner. The commissioned work was eventually refused by the City of San Francisco.Arneson embraced the idea that artists must be challenging, present controversial subject matter, and confront socially problematic and even offensive issues. By doing so he extended his range of content and stretched the audience's capacity to deal with art, its surrounding ideas, and the artist's role in pushing the bounds of cultural acceptability, as in Pic. Picking one's nose may be a low level social offense, but it is representative of his continuous testing of the audience and the work. It is also an example of his thought that any artist is always presenting himself in any work, therefore the making of his art in his own image is inevitable. (www.georgeadamsgallery.com 2-6-09)1930-Born Benicia, CA 1949-College of Marin Kentfield, CA 1954-B.A. from California College of Arts and Crafts Oakland, CA 1958-M.F.A. Mills College Oakland, CA 1985-Honorary Doctor of Fine Arts Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, RI 1987-Honorary Doctor of Fine Arts San Francisco Art Institute, CA 1991-Academy Institute Award in Art American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters 1992-Fellowship American Craft Council 1992-Died Benicia, CA SOLO EXHIBITIONS:"Robert Arneson from the 60's." Brian Gross Fine Art, San Francisco, CA, 2008. "Robert Arneson: The Black Series, Selected Works 1988-1990." George Adams Gallery, New York City, 2007. "Robert Arneson: Sculpture, Paintings and Drawings 1958-1992." George Adams Gallery at the ADAA Art Show, Seventh Regiment Armory, New York, 2006. "Arneson and the Object." curated by Leo Mazow. Palmer Museum of Art, University Park, PA; travelling to Greenville County Museum, Greenville, SC and George Adams Gallery, New York, 2004.* "Robert Arneson: Political Drawings." Brian Gross Fine Art, San Francisco, 2004. "Big Idea: The Maquettes of Robert Arneson." Palo Alto Art Center, Palo Alto, CA; Iris & B. Gerald Cantor Art Gallery, College of the Holy Cross, Worcester, MA; The Contemporary Museum, Honolulu, HI; Museum of Glass: International Center for Contemporary Art, Tacoma, WA; Sheldon Memorial Art Gallery and Sculpture Garden, Lincoln, NE; David and Alfred Smart Museum, Chicago, IL, 2002. "This Head is Mine.'" The Contemporary Museum, Honolulu, Hawaii, 2000-2001. "Robert Arneson: Bronze Self-Portraits and Drawings." DeCordova Museum and Sculpture Park, Lincoln, Massachusetts; travelling to; George Adams Gallery, New York, 1999-2000.* "Robert Arneson: Double Portraits." Brian Gross Fine Art. San Francisco, 1999.* "Robert Arneson: Self-Reflections." San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, California, 1997.* "Robert Arneson: Drawing." George Adams Gallery. New York City, 1996.* "Robert Arneson: The Late Bronzes." Frumkin/Adams Gallery. New York City, 1995.* "Robert Arneson: The Last Works." John Berggruen Gallery. San Francisco, 1993.* "Arneson and Politics: A Commemorative Exhibition." Fine Arts Museum of San Francisco, M.H. deYoung Memorial Museum, California Palace of the Legion of Honor: 1993.* "A Memorial Exhibition." Frumkin/Adams Gallery. New York City, 1993. "Robert Arneson: Two-dimensional Works." Johnson County Community College. Overland Park, Kansas, 1993.* "Guardians of the Secret II." Museum of Art, University of Northern Iowa. Iowa City, 1992-93.Dorothy Goldeen Gallery. Santa Monica, California, 1992. "Masks." Frumkin/Adams Gallery. New York City (Drawing Gallery), 1992. "Robert Arneson: 'Guardians of the Secret II'." Institute of Contemporary Art, University of Pennsylvania. Philadelphia, 1992.* "Me and Jackson: Robert Arneson Interprets Jackson Pollock." Pollock-Krasner House. East Hampton, New York, 1992.* "Robert Arneson: The Jackson Pollock Series." List Visual Arts Center, Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1991.* "Robert Arneson: 'Guardians of the Secret II.'" Museum of Fine Arts. Springfield, Massachusetts,1991. "Robert Arneson: New and Selected Work." Sawhill Gallery, James Madison University. Harrisonburg, Virginia, 1991. "Black." Frumkin/Adams Gallery. New York City, 1990.* Candy Store Gallery. Folsom, California, 1990. "Guardians of the Secret II." Frumkin/Adams Gallery. New York, 1990. "Robert Arneson/ Matrix 110: From the Jackson Pollock Series." Wadsworth Atheneum. Hartford, Connecticut, 1990.* Charles Scott Gallery, Emily Carr College of Art. Vancouver, 1988. Dorothy Goldeen Gallery. Santa Monica, 1988, 1992. Fuller Gross Gallery. San Francisco, 1988. "Robert Arneson - Sculpture, Paintings, Drawings." Payne Gallery, Moravian College. Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, 1987. "Robert Arneson - Portrait Sculpture." Cleveland Museum of Art. Ohio, 1987.* Fuller Goldeen Gallery. San Francisco, 1984, 1985, 1986.* "Nuclear Visions." Krannert Art Museum, University of Illinois. Urbana-Champaign, 1986. "Robert Arneson: Points of View." Pittsburgh Center for the Arts. Pennsylvania, 1986.* University of the Pacific. Stockton, California, 1986. "Robert Arneson: A Retrospective." Des Moines Art Center, Iowa; Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington, D.C.; Portland Art Museum, Oregon; Oakland Museum, California: 1986-87.* "Moscone Bust Exhibition." Triton Museum of Art, Santa Clara, California; Crocker Art Museum, Sacramento; Fresno Art Center, California; Fountain Gallery, Portland: 1984. "Robert Arneson." Lowe Art Museum, University of Miami. Coral Gables, Florida, 1984. "Robert Arneson: 'Masks.'" Karl Oskar Gallery. Westwood Hills, Kansas, 1984. Yares Gallery. Scottsdale, Arizona, 1983. "Masks and Portraits." organized by Landfall Press: 1983-84.* "Robert Arneson Drawings." Crocker Museum of Art. Sacramento, 1983-84. "Portrait of George." Installations at San Francisco Museum of Art; Oakland Museum, California: 1981-82. "Alice Street House." Richard Nelson Gallery, University of California. Davis, 1982. Hansen-Fuller-Goldeen Gallery. San Francisco, 1980, 1982. Frumkin and Struve Gallery. Chicago, 1980, 1984. Memphis Academy of Art. Tennessee, 1979. Moore College Art Gallery. Philadelphia, 1979.* Memorial Union Art Gallery, University of California. Davis, 1976. Allan Frumkin Gallery. Chicago, 1976, 1978. Fendrick Gallery. Washington, D.C., 1976, 1980. Western Association of Art Museums Touring Exhibition, 1975. Allan Frumkin Gallery. New York City, 1975, 1977, 1979*, 1981*, 1983*, 1984, 1987. Deson-Zaks Gallery. Chicago, 1974. Retrospective Exhibition. Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago; San Francisco Museum of Art, California: 1974.* Church Fine Arts Gallery, University of Nevada. Reno, 1973. Manolides Gallery. Seattle, 1972 (with William T. Wiley). Miami-Dade Community College Art Gallery. Florida, 1972. University of Calgary. Alberta, Canada, 1971.Fresno State College Art Gallery. California, 1970. Candy Store Gallery. Folsom, California, 1969, 1970, 1971, 1972, 1974, 1975. Hansen-Fuller Gallery. San Francisco, annually 1968-77. San Francisco Museum of Art. California, 1967. Cellini Gallery. San Francisco, 1964. "Recent Clay & Pottery Objects." University of California. Davis, 1964. Allan Stone Gallery. New York City, 1964, 1969. Richmond Art Center. California, 1963. Barrios Gallery. Sacramento, 1962. M.H. DeYoung Memorial Museum. San Francisco, 1962. Oakland Art Museum. California, 1960. GROUP EXHIBITIONS: "Jackson." Contemporary Art Galleries, University of Connecticuct. Storrs, CT, 2007. "Dialogues: The Enigmatic Object," George Adams Gallery, New York, NY, 2007 "Inside/Outside," George Adams Gallery, New York, NY, 2007 "CCA @ di Rosa Preserve: Art & Nature," Gatehouse Gallery, Napa, CA, 2007. "2006 Collector's Show & Sale," Arkansas Art Center, Little Rock, AR, 2006. "The Artful Jester." The Painting Center, New York; Brattleboro Museum & Art Center, Vermont, 2006.* "Art of Engagement: Paintings, Drawings, Prints and Sculpture." Jack Rutberg Fine Arts, Los Angeles, California, 2005-2006.* " Fired at Davis: Figurative Ceramic Sculpture from the Paula and Ross Turk Collection." Cantor Arts Center, Stanford, CA, 2005. * "Body Language." George Adams Gallery, New York, 2005. "Paint on Metal: Modern and Contemporary Explorations and Discoveries." Tuscon Museum of Art, Arizona, 2005. "Bush- Whack!" George Adams Gallery, New York, 2004. "Humor, Irony and Wit: Ceramic Funk from the Sixties and Beyond." Arizona State University Art Museum, Ceramics Research Center, Tempe, AZ, 2004.* "The Not-So-Still Life: A Century of California Painting and Sculpture." San Jose Museum of Art, San Jose, 2003-2004, traveling to the Pasadena Museum of California Art, 2004.* "Sculpture in the City." San Francisco Arts Commission, San Francisco, 2003. "Multiple Artists." George Adams Gallery, New York, NY 2003. "Global Village: The 1960s." Montreal Museum of Fine Art, Montreal, Canada, 2003.* "A Happening Place." The Gershman Y, Philadelphia, PA, 2003.* "Aftershock: Legacy of the Readymade in Post-War and Contemporary American Art." Dickinson Roundell, New York, 2003.* "Poetics of Clay." curated by Helen Drutt, Houston Center for Contemporary Clay, TX, 2003. "Form from Fire: Robert Arneson, Viola Frey, Ken Price, Michael Lucero, Peter Voulkos." Scott White Contemporary Art, La Jolla, CA, 2003. "In the Eye of the Beholder." George Adams Gallery, New York, NY, 2003 "Clay Works: American Ceramics from the Everson Museum of Art." Everson Museum, Syracuse, NY, 2003 (illus. brochure). "Sweet Tooth." curated by Sarah Tanguy, COPIA, Napa, CA, 2003.* "Contemporary American Ceramics 1950-1990 - A Survey of American Objects and Vessels." Organized by The National Museum of Modern Art, Kyoto, traveled throughout Japan to: Achi Prefectural Ceramic Museum, Achi; The National Museum of Modern Art, Kyoto; Ibaraki Prefectural Ceramic Museum, Ibaraki; Niigata Prefectural Museum of Art, Niigata; Setagaya Art Museum, Tokyo; Fukuoka Prefectural Muesum of Art, Fukuoka "Me, Myself & I." George Adams Gallery, New York, 2002. "Real(ist) Men." Selby Gallery, Ringling School of Art and Design, Sarasota, FL. 2001-2002. "Holocaust: A Broad Perspective." Gallery West, Suffolk County Community College, Brentwood, NY 2001 "From Pop to Op: American Art in the 60s." Suzanne H. Arnold Gallery, Lebanon Valley College, Anneville, PA, 2001. "2001 Collector's Show.'" Arkansas Art Center, Little Rock, AR, 2001 "Magic Vision." Arkansas Art Center, Little Rock, AR, 2001* "About Face: The Collection of Jackye and Curtis Finch, Jr.'" Arkansas Art Center, Little Rock, Oct 5 - Nov 11, 2001. * "The Poetics of Clay." Philadelphia Art Alliance, 2001. "Self Made Men." DC Moore Gallery, New York, 2001. "2000 Collector's Show." Arkansas Arts Center, Little Rock, 2000. American Embassy Windhoek, Namibia, 2000. "Confrontational Clay: The Artist as Social Critic." Organized by Exhibits USA. Traveled to University of Central Florida, Orlando; Philharmonic Center for the Arts, Naples, Florida; The Arkansas Arts Center, Little Rock; American Craft Museum, New York; Flint Institute of Art, Flint, Michigan; Middlebury College Museum of Art, Vermont; Springfield Museum of Art, Ohio, 2000-2001.* "The Lighter Side of Bay Area Figuration." Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art, Kansas City, Missouri and San Jose Museum of Art, California, 2000.* "Born of Clay 3." Garth Clark Gallery, New York, 1999. "Bob Arneson and Friends." John Natsoulas Gallery, Davis, CA, 1999. "George Washington - American Symbol." The Museums at Stonybrook, New York; the Brandywine River Museum, Chadds Ford, Pennsylvania; Museum of Our National Heritage, Lexington, Massachusetts, 1999-2000.* "Artists for Mumia 911." George Adams Gallery, New York, 1999. "Into the 21st Century: Selections from the Permanent Collection." San Jose Art Museum. San Jose, California, 1999. "Twentieth Century American Drawings from the Arkansas Arts Center Foundation Collection." The Arkansas Arts Center, Little Rock; Sunrise Museum, Charleston, West Virginia; Philharmonic Center for the Arts, Naples, Florida; Fort Wayne Museum of Art, Indiana; Knoxville Museum of Art, Tennessee; Boise Art Museum, Idaho; Mobile Museum of Art, Alabama; Art Museum of Southeast Texas, Beaumont; Art Museum of South Texas, Corpus Christi; Joslyn Art Museum, Omaha, Nebraska; Kalamazoo Institute of Arts, Michigan, 1998-2000.* "Art About Art," George Adams Gallery, New York, February, 1999 American Embassy Russia, 1998. "Annual Collector's Show." Arkansas Arts Center. Little Rock, 1998. "The Figure in 20th Century Sculpture." Two Sculptors, Inc. New York City, March-April 1998. "Points of Origin." Franklin-Parrasch Gallery. New York City, 1998. "A Show of Hands." George Adams Gallery. New York City, 1997. "A Singular Vision: Prints from Landfall Press." Milwaukee Art Museum; Museum of Modern Art, New York City: 1997.* "Mixing Business with Pleasure." Sawhill Gallery, James Madison University. Virginia, 1997. "1996 Collector's Show." Arkansas Arts Center. Little Rock, 1996. " It Figures." SFA Gallery. Nacogdoches, Texas, 1996. "Alteration." K & E Gallery. New York City, 1996. "Out of 'Toon': Another Look at Art & the Comics." George Adams Gallery. New York City, 1996. "Portrait of Our Time--Revolution: A Gallery Project." Ferndale, Michigan, 1995.* "It's Only Rock and Roll." Exhibition Management, Inc., Cleveland; Phoenix Art Museum, Arizona; Contemporary Arts Center, Cincinnati: 1995-1998. "Inside Out: Psychological Self-Portraiture." Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art. Ridgefield, Connecticut, 1995.* "California in the 1960's: Funk Revisited." Frumkin/Adams Gallery. New York City, 1995. "2 x IMMORTAL: Elvis + Marilyn." Exhibition Management, Inc./ McDaris Exhibition Group; Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston; Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston; Mint Museum of Art, Charlotte; Cleveland Museum of Art, Ohio; Jacksonville Art Museum, Florida; Philbrook Museum of Art, Tulsa, Oklahoma; Columbus Museum of Art; Tennessee State Museum, Nashville; San Jose Museum of Art, California; Honolulu Academy of Art, Hawaii; Japan Art and Culture Association; Formosa Artists Management: 1994-1998. "The Figure in Sculpture." Transamerica Pyramid Lobby. San Francisco, 1994.* "Here and Now: Bay Area Masterworks form the di Rosa Collections." Oakland Museum. California, 1994. "Masters of Satire." William King Regional Arts Center. Abingdon, Virginia, 1994.* "Current Trends in Ceramics: Vessels and Objects." Aichi Prefectural Ceramic Museum; Asahi Shimbun: 1994.* "Around the House." Frumkin/Adams Gallery. New York City, 1994. "Black Male: Representations of Masculinity." Whitney Museum of American Art. New York City, 1994.* "When Attitudes Become Form: Selections from a Contemporary New Jersey Collection." The Montclair Art Museum. New Jersey, 1994. "Robert Arneson: Changing the Face of American Ceramics." Kingsborough Community College Art Gallery. Brooklyn, New York, 1994-1995. "Building a Collection: The Department of Contemporary Art." Museum of Fine Arts. Boston, 1993. "The Purloined Image." Flint Institute of Arts. Michigan, 1993. "Self-Portrait: The Changing Self." New Jersey Center for the Visual Arts. Summit, 1993. "Arneson, DeForest, Hudson & Wiley: Selections from the Anderson Collection." San Jose Museum of Art. California, 1992. "California Legacy: Concepts in Clay." Palos Verdes Art Center. Rancho Palos Verdes, California, 1992. "In Praise of Folly." John Michael Kohler Arts Center. Sheboygan, Wisconsin, 1992. "Large-Scale Drawings." Frumkin/Adams Gallery. New York City, 1992. "Quotations." The Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art. Ridgefield, Connecticut, 1992.* "Bridges and Boundaries: African Americans and American Jews." Jewish Museum, New York City; Jewish Museum, San Francisco; The Strong Museum, Rochester, New York; The Jewish Historical Society of Maryland, Inc., Eubie Blake National Museum and Cultural Center, Baltimore; National Afro-American Museum and Cultural Center, Cultural Museum and National Museum of American Jewish History, Philadelphia; Chicago Historical Society: 1992-1994.* "Art on Paper." Weatherspoon Art Gallery. Greensboro, North Carolina, 1992. "La Vigencia: Barro de America." Museo de Arte Contemporaneo de Caracas Sofia Imber. Venezuela, 1992.* "40th Anniversary Exhibition." Frumkin/Adams Gallery. New York City, 1992.* "Ideas on Paper -Prints and Drawings by Sculptors." Champion Gallery. Stamford, Connecticut, 1992. "Images of Man: Figures of Contemporary Sculpture (1970-1990)." ACA Gallery, New York City; Isetan Museum, Tokyo; Daimaru Museum of Art, Osaka-Umeda; Hiroshima City Museum of Contemporary Art: 1992-93.* "Academy-Institute Invitational." American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters. New York City, 1991. "Collectors' Gallery XXV." Marion Koogler McNay Art Museum. San Antonio, 1991. "Exhibition of Works by Newly Elected Members and Recipients of Honors." American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters. New York City, 1991. "Experiencing Sculpture: The Figurative Presence in America, 1870-1990." The Hudson River Museum of Westchester. Yonkers, New York, 1991. "Image & Likeness." Whitney Museum of American Art, Federal Plaza. New York City, 1991.* "Points of View." Bay State West. Springfield, Massachusetts, 1991. " Witness." Palo Alto Cultural Center. California, l991. "Figuring the Body." Museum of Fine Arts. Boston, 1990. "Ironies: Figure and Still-Life in Sculpture." Marilyn Pearl Gallery. New York City, 1990. "Twenty Years of Landfall Press." Chicago and New York City, 1990. "Signs of the Self: Changing Perceptions." Woodstock Artists Association. New York City, 1990. "Unknown Secrets: Art and the Rosenberg Era." Hillwood Art Gallery, Long Island University, Brookville, New York; Brickyard Hollow, Montague Center, Massachusetts College of Art, Boston; Olin Gallery, Kenyon College, Gambier, Ohio; Palmer Museum of Art, Pennsylvania State University, University Park; University of Colorado, Boulder; Installation Gallery, San Diego; Spertus Museum of Judaica, Chicago: 1988-90.* "Personae." Islip Art Museum. East Islip, New York, 1989. "Here's Looking at Us: A Selection of Figurative Works from the di Rosa Foundation." Rasmussen Art Gallery, Pacific Union College. Angwin, California, 1989. "Human Concern/Personal Torment: The Grotesque in American Art." Phyllis Kind Gallery, New York City; Chicago: 1989. "Taboo." Greg Kucera Gallery. Seattle, 1989. "Reagan: An American Icon." The Reading Public Museum and Art Gallery, Reading, Pennsylvania; Center Gallery, Bucknell University, Lewisburg, Pennsylvania; Richard Humphrey Gallery, New York City, 1989.*"American Ceramics Now: The 27th Ceramic National Exhibition." Everson Museum of Art, Syracuse, New York; Birmingham Museum of Art, Alabama: 1988.* "The Road Show: The Automobile in Contemporary Art." John Michael Kohler Arts Center. Sheboygan,Wisconsin, 1989. "A Fine Place to Work: The Legacy of the Archie Bray Foundation." Arkansas Arts Center Decorative Arts Museum. Little Rock, 1988. "Columnar." Hudson River Museum. Yonkers, New York, 1988. "Expression in Color: Ceramics." New Jersey Center for the Arts. Summit, 1988. "Life Stories: Myth, Fiction & History in Contemporary Art." Henry Art Gallery, University of Washington. Seattle, 1988. "1900 to Now: Modern Art from Rhode Island Collections." Museum of Art, Rhode Island School of Design. Providence, 1988.* "Sculptors on Paper: New Work." Madison Art Center (and other venues). Wisconsin, 1988.* "Visions of the Apocalypse." Museum of Art, Rhode Island School of Design. Providence, 1988. "Committed to Print." Museum of Modern Art. New York City, 1987-88. "All the News That's Fit for Prints." P.P.O.W. New York City, 1987. "A Sigh of Relief." Wilson Arts Center. Rochester, New York, 1987. "Bronze, Plaster and Polyester." Goldie Paley Gallery, Moore College of Art. Philadelphia, 1987. "Collector's Choice." Philbrook Art Center. Tulsa, 1987. "Made in U.S.A.: Art from the '50s & '60s." University of California (and other venues). Berkeley, 1987. "Portrait/Self-Portrait." Artspace. San Francisco, 1987. "Self as Subject." The Katonah Gallery. New York City, 1987. "Self Portraits: The Message, The Material." Skidmore College. Saratoga Springs, New York, 1987.* "The Importance of Drawing." Fuller Goldeen Gallery. San Francisco, 1987. "Sculptors on Paper: New Work." Madison Art Center. Wisconsin, 1987.* "American Realism: Twentieth Century Drawings and Watercolors from the Glenn C. Janns Collection." San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (and other venues). California, 1986-87.* "An American Renaissance: Painting & Sculpture Since 1940." Fort Lauderdale Museum of Art. Florida, 1986 "Artist/Printmaker." Maryland Institute College of Art. Baltimore, 1986. "Artists' Self-Portraits." Claude Bernard Gallery. New York City, 1986. "California Figurative Sculpture,." Palm Springs Desert Museum. California, 1986. "Craft Today: Poetry of the Physical." American Craft Museum. New York City, 1986. "Drawings by Sculptors." Nohra Haime Gallery. New York City, 1986. "Figurative Sculpture: The 80's." Marilyn Pearl Gallery. New York City, 1986. "Figure as Subject: The Last Decade." Whitney Museum of American Art, Equitable Center. New York City, 1986.* Struve Gallery. Chicago, 1986. "38th Annual Purchase Exhibition." Hassam and Speicher Fund, American Academy of Arts and Letters. New York City, 1986. "Clay." The Dayton Art Institute. Ohio, 1985. "Fortissimo: Thirty Years from the Richard Brown Baker Collection of Contemporary Art." Museum of Art, Rhode Island School of Design. Providence, 1985.* "Heart and Soul: Bodily Encounters." Munson-Williams-Proctor Institute. Utica, New York, 1985. "Outline Cutout Silhouette." Allan Frumkin Gallery. New York, 1985. "Recent American Portraiture." Robert Schoelkopf Gallery. New York City, 1985. "Rethinking the Avant-Garde." The Katonah Gallery. New York, 1985.* "The Figure in Ceramics." Rathbone Gallery. Albany, New York, 1985. "California Sculpture." Fisher Gallery, University of Southern California Los Angeles; Musee d'Art Contemporain de Bordeaux, France; Stadtiche Kunsthalle, Mannheim, West Germany; Yorkshire Sculpture Park, West Bretton, England; Sonja Henies Og Niels Onstads Stiftelser, Hovikodden, Norway: 1984-85.* "Arts of the State: California 1984." Santa Barbara Museum of Art. California, 1984.* "Bob & Roy & Karen & Friends." Creative Growth Gallery. Oakland, 1984. "Directions in Contemporary American Ceramics." Museum of Fine Arts. Boston, 1984. "Drawings Since 1974." Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden. Washington, D.C., 1984. "Imagined Icons." Clark Gallery. Lincoln, Massachusetts, 1984. "Modern Masks." The Whitney Museum of American Art, Philip Morris. New York City, 1984. "1+1=2." Bernice Steinbaum Gallery. New York City, 1984. "Small Sculpture: A New Dimension." Florida International University. Miami, 1984. "The Human Condition: San Francisco Museum of Modern Art Biennial III." San Francisco, 1984.* "The Sculptor as Draughtsman." Whitney Museum of American Art. New York City, 1984. "The Shadow of the Bomb." University Gallery, Amherst; Mount Holyoke College Art Gallery, South Hadley, Massachusetts: 1984* "Art Against War." San Francisco Art Institute. California, 1983. "Art Itinera 83: Painterly Drawings." Castello Pasquini, Volterra; Castiglioncello: 1983. "Bodies and Souls." Artist's Choice Museum. New York City, 1983.* "Ceramic Echoes." Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art. Kansas City, 1983. " Controversial Public Art." Milwaukee Art Museum. Wisconsin, 1983. "Faces Since the Fifties: A Generation of American Portraiture." Center Gallery, Bucknell University. Lewisburg, Pennsylvania, 1983.* "Inside Self, Someone Else." Dayton Art Institute. Ohio, 1983. "Selected California Artists: Recent Works." The Monterey Peninsula Museum of Art. California, 1983.* "Self-Portraits." Linda Farris Gallery. Seattle, 1983.* "New Portraits: Behind Faces." Dayton Art Institute. Ohio, 1982-83. "Northern California Art of the Sixties." De Saisset Museum, University of Santa Clara. California,1982.* "Ceramic Sculpture: Six Artists." The Whitney Museum of American Art, New York City; San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, California: 1981-82.* "Centering on Contemporary Clay: American Ceramics from the Joan Mannheimer Collection." University of Iowa Museum of Art. Iowa City, 1981. "Clay." Museum of Art, Rhode Island School of Design. Providence, 1981. "Recent Drawing Acquisitions." Museum of Modern Art. New York City, 1981. "The Clay Figure." American Craft Museum. New York City, 1981. "The Image in American Painting and Sculpture, 1950-80." Akron Art Museum. Ohio, 1981.* "Welcome to the Candy Store!." Crocker Art Gallery. Sacramento, 1981.* "Sculpture in California, 1975-80." San Diego Museum of Art. California, 1980. "The Continental Clay Connection." Norman Mackenzie Art Gallery, University of Saskatchewan. Regina, Canada, 1980. "Twenty American Artists." San Francisco Museum of Modern Art. California, 1980. "A Century of Ceramics in the United States, 1878-1978." Everson Museum of Art. Syracuse, New York, 1979.* Biennial Exhibition. The Whitney Museum of American Art. New York City, 1979.* "California Clay." Florida State University Fine Art Gallery. Tallahassee, 1979. "Images of Self." Hampshire College Gallery, Amherst. Massachusetts, 1979.* "West Coast Ceramics." Stedelijk Museum. Amsterdam, Holland, 1979.* "The Santa Show." Crocker Art Gallery. Sacramento, 1978. "West Coast Artists." New Gallery of Contemporary Art. Cleveland, 1978. "Works on Paper." Allan Frumkin Gallery. New York City, 1978. "Nine West Coast Clay Sculptors: 1978." Everson Museum, Syracuse, New York; Arts and Crafts Center, Pittsburgh: 1978-79.* "Recent Works on Paper." Madison Art Center. Wisconsin, 1977-78. "Painting and Sculpture in California: The Modern Era." San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, California; Smithsonian Institute, Washington, D.C.: 1976-77.* "Contemporary Ceramic Sculpture." Ackland Art Center, University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill. Chapel Hill, 1977. "New Ceramic Sculpture." Allan Frumkin Gallery. New York City, 1977. "Sculpture: American Direction 1945-75." National Collection of Fine Arts, Smithsonian Institution. Washington, D.C., 1977.* "10th Anniversary Exhibition." Museum of Contemporary Art. Chicago, 1977. "The Object As Poet." Renwick Gallery of the National Collection of Fine Arts, Smithsonian Institution. Washington, D.C., 1977. "Bicentennial Exhibition." Allan Frumkin Gallery. New York City, 1976. "6 from California." Washington State University, Museum of Art. Pullman, 1976 "Soup Tureens: 1976." Campbell Museum. New York City, 1976. "Clay U.S.A." Fendrick Gallery. Washington, D.C., 1975. "California Ceramic Sculpture, Part II." Allan Frumkin Gallery. New York , 1974. "California Climate." Root Art Center, Hamilton College. Clinton, New York, 1974. "Contemporary American Painting and Sculpture." University of Illinois. Champaign, 1974. "Clay." The Whitney Museum of American Art (Downtown). New York City, 1974. "Painting and Sculpture by Young American Artists." Cranbrook Academy Gallery. Bloomfield Hills, Michigan, 1973. "Statements." Oakland Museum. California, 1973. "A Decade of Ceramic Art, 1962-1972." San Francisco Museum of Art. California, 1972. "Contemporary Ceramic Art: Canada, U.S.A., Mexico and Japan." National Museum of Modern Art, Kyoto; National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo: 1972.* "White on White." Museum of Contemporary Art. Chicago, 1972. "Clayworks: 20 Americans." Museum of Contemporary Crafts. New York City, 1971.* "Ceramics 70." Everson Museum. Syracuse, New York, 1970. "San Francisco Art Institute Centennial Exhibition." M.H. DeYoung Memorial Museum. San Francisco, 1970. "Objects, U.S.A." National Collection of Fine Arts. Washington, D.C., 1969. "The Spirit of the Comics." Institute of Contemporary Art, University of Pennsylvania. Philadelphia, 1969. "Human Concern - Personal Torment." Whitney Museum of American Art. New York City, 1969. "Dada, Surrealism & Their Heritage." Museum of Modern Art. New York City, 1968. "Arts of San Francisco." San Francisco Museum of Modern Art. California, 1967. "Funk Art." University of California. Berkeley, 1967.* "California Ceramic Sculpt