David Gilhooly


David Gilhooly, also known as David James Gilhooly III, was an American ceramicist and printmaker.

Early life

Born in Auburn, California, he graduated from the University of California, Davis with a BA in 1965 and an MA in 1967.

Career

Gilhooly, together with Robert Arneson, Peter Vandenberge, Chris Unterseher and Margaret Dodd, working together in TB-9 were what was later to be called, The Funk Ceramic Movement of the San Francisco Bay Area. David left TB-9 for one semester to become Manuel Neri's assistant and started making art out of lumber, fur, neon lights and asbestos shingles.
In 1969, Gilhooly met Regina, Saskatchewan ceramicist Victor Cicansky at Davis and, at his suggestion, took a teaching position at the University of Saskatchewan in Canada. He followed this with seven years at York University, in Toronto, Canada.
In 1995 Gilhooly moved to Oregon with his second wife Camille Chang.

Death

Gilhooly died of complications related to cancer on August 21, 2013 at his home in Newport, Oregon.

Public collections

The Arizona State University Art Collections, the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, the Honolulu Museum of Art, the Jane Voorhees Zimmerli Art Museum, the Little Rock Art Center, the Louisiana State University, the National Gallery of Canada, the Norton Museum of Art, the Oakland Museum of California, the Palm Springs Desert Museum, the Philadelphia Museum of Art, the San Antonio Museum of Art, the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, the San Jose Museum of Art, the Anderson Collection at Stanford University, the Stedelijk Museum, the University of California, Santa Barbara, the Vancouver Art Gallery and the Whitney Museum of American Art are among the public collections holding works by David Gilhooly.

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