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In the world of contemporary ceramics, Richard Shaw is the master of trompe-l’oeil sculpture. He has developed an astonishing array of techniques, including perfectly cast porcelain objects and overglaze transfer decals. By combining the commonplace with the whimsical, the humorous with the mundane, Shaw captures the poetic and the surreal with the sensibility of a comedian.
Shaw is one of the most respected and collected artists in contemporary ceramics. Coming out of the San Francisco Bay area in the late 1960s, he has long been affiliated with the Funk movement. However, he has continued to add to his skills and to appropriate from mass culture, developing a vocabulary of found objects that form intimate still life sculpture, complex figures, and personally referential assemblage. He brings life to the detritus of the studio, as a cartoonist animates the page.
Selected Museum Collections
Addison Gallery of American Art, Phillips Academy, Andover, Massachusetts
Arizona State University, Tempe
The Contemporary Museum, Honolulu, Hawaii
Crocker Art Museum, Sacramento
Everson Museum of Art, Syracuse, New York
Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco
The Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, M.H. de Young Memorial Art Museum
John Michael Kohler Arts Center, Sheboygan, Wisconsin
Krannert Art Museum, University of Illinois, Champaign
Levi Strauss Collection, San Francisco
Los Angeles County Museum of Art
Lowe Art Museum, University of Florida, Coral Gables
The Minneapolis Institute of Arts
Mint Museum of Craft & Design, Charlotte, North Carolina
Museum of Contemporary Crafts, New York
National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo, Japan
The Nelson-Atkins Museum, Kansas City, Missouri
New Mexico State University, Las Cruces
Oakland Museum, Oakland, California
Petits Lu Collection, Paris France
Rene Di Rosa Collection, Napa, California
Renwick Gallery of the National Museum of American Art, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art
Sheldon Memorial Art Gallery and Sculpture Garden, University of Nebraska-Lincoln
The Shigaraki Ceramic Cultural Park, Shigaraki, Japan
Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
University of Miami, Florida
University of New Mexico, Albuquerque
University of Washington, Seattle
Utah Museum of Fine Arts, Salt Lake City
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York
Selected Solo Exhibitions
2003 Frank Lloyd Gallery, Santa Monica
2002 Braunstein/Quay Gallery, San Francisco
2001 Frank Lloyd Gallery, Santa Monica
2000 Braunstein/Quay Gallery, San Francisco
1999 Perimeter Gallery, Chicago
1998 Addison Gallery of American Art, Philips Academy, Andover, Mass.
1996 Braunstein/Quay Gallery, San Francisco
Fallkirk Cultural Center, San Rafael, California
1995 Perimeter Gallery, Chicago
1993 Braunstein/Quay, San Francisco
1992 Frumkin Adams Gallery, New York; Helander Gallery, Palm Beach, Florida
1991 Fullerton Museum Center, California
1990 Braunstein/Quay Gallery, San Francisco; Frumkin Adams Gallery, New York; Garth Clark Gallery, Los Angeles: Howard Yerzerski Gallery, Boston; Palo Alto Cultural Center, California; Schneider Museum of Art, Ashland, Oregon
1989 Thomas Segal Gallery, Boston
1988 Alan Frumkin Gallery, New York; Braunstein/Quay Gallery, San Francisco; Nevada Museum of Art, Reno; University of the Pacific, Stockton, California
1987 Bergstrom-Mahler Museum, Neenah, Wisconsin; The Contemporary Museum, Honolulu, Hawaii; Foster/White Gallery, Seattle, Washington;
1987 Grand Rapids Art Museum, Michigan; Palm Springs Desert Museum, Inc., California; Tucson Museum of Art, Arizona
1986 Allan Frumkin Gallery, New York; Braunstein/Quay Gallery, San Francisco; Everson Museum of Art of Syracuse and Onondaga County, New York; Art Museum of South Texas, Corpus Christi; Huntsville Museum of Art, Alabama; Scottsdale Center for the Arts, Arizona
1985 Asher/Faure Gallery, Los Angeles
1984 Braunstein/Quay Gallery, San Francisco; Morgan Gallery, Kansas City
1983 Madison Art Center, Wisconsin
1982 Alberta College of Art, Calgary, Canada; Boise Gallery of Art, Idaho; Greenberg Gallery, Saint Louis; Mendel Art Gallery and Civic Conservatory, Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Canada
1981 Braunstein/Quay Gallery, San Francisco; Newport Harbor Art Museum, Newport Beach, California; San Jose Museum of Art, California
1980 Allan Frumkin Gallery, New York
1979 Belson-Brown Gallery, Ketchum, Idaho; Michael Berger Gallery, Pittsburgh; Braunstein/Quay Gallery, San Francisco
1977 Jacqueline Anhalt Gallery, Los Angeles
1976 Braunstein/Quay Gallery, San Francisco; Braunstein/Quay Gallery, New York
1974 E.G. Gallery, Kansas City, Missouri
1973 San Francisco Museum of Art; Quay Gallery, San Francisco
1971 Quay Gallery, San Francisco
1970 Quay Gallery, San Francisco
1968 Dilexi Gallery, San Francisco
1967 San Francisco Art Institute |
