Maquette Exhibition
Archive for March 5th, 2011
William T. Wiley
William T. Wiley’s works on paper from the 70′s and 80′s represent his character and humor towards life and society. Wiley’s self-portraits exude his playful…
Wayne Thiebaud
Wayne Thiebaud received his Master of Arts in 1953 from California State Sacramento and has been a professor of art at the University of California…
Yoshio Taylor
Yoshio Taylor has worked in clay for over two decades and has become one of Sacramento Valley’s foremost artist in the field of ceramics. Taylor…
Myron Stephens
My work is influenced by post-modernism and American imagery: The humor and graphic nature of the Pop artists, like Warhol and Liechtenstein and the figurative…
Barbara Spring
Spring is one of the pioneers in wood sculpture and installation art. Her scenes range from complex room-size installations to the smaller, more compressed “vignettes”….
Hassel Smith (1915-2007)
In late 1954, Hassel Smith was only an intermittent visitor to San Francisco. He had left the California School of Fine Arts in the early…
Lisa Reinertson
Lisa Reinertson had been creating monumental sculptures cast in bronze at Artworks Foundry since her first major commission: “Martin Luther King, Jr.” in Kalamazoo, MI…
Robert Ransom
At first glance, Robert Ransom’s paintings may show the viewer a backyard barbeque or a roadside diner; the characters seem comical and somewhat blocky, each…
Avery Palmer
Implying bizarre narratives, Avery Palmer’s sculptures encourage engagement of the imagination. HIs dreamlike combinations of figurative and architectural elements with other objects of ambiguous symbolism…
Emmy Lou Packard (1914-1998)
The years Emmy Lou has lived have enriched her pictorial language but have not destroyed in this fine painter of today, who handles beautifully, fresco,…
Gladys Nilsson
Gladys Nilsson, a founding member of the Chicago Hairy Who, studied at The School of the Art Institute of Chicago (SAIC) from 1958 to 1962….
Royal Nebeker
Royal Nebeker is a highly regarded Oregon narrative painter and teacher. During his academic tenure, he was the Director of the Art Institute on the…
William Maul
William Maul graduated from Central Michigan University in 1980. His primary media are oil and acrylic. Maul’s most successful works express his deepest interest: “I…
René Martucci
Much like a portrait painter, Martucci produces three-dimensional portraits of dogs in addition to making artwork on other subjects. One of the most enjoyable aspects…
Pat Mahony
Lush landscapes and poignant still lifes, which reflect years of study of the characteristics of light
David Hollowell
David Hollowell’s exquisite figures inhabiting the spaces are rendered in carefully formed historical illusions often with a disorienting sense of perspective. For many years, he…
Sean Henry
Sean Henry’s nearly (but never quite) life-size sculptures of human beings are more mundane than monumental. They’re expressive but expressionless, individuated yet general. They engage…
Boyd Gavin
Boyd Gavin, “…paints in a very straightforward manner, with a loose brushstroke and bright palette that lends itself well to painting small, easily recognizable objects…
Roy De Forest (1930-2007)
Roy De Forest, one of the preeminent artists of the Bay Area, has long worked on his stunning visual tales. He has constructed exciting images…
Frank Damiano
“Frank Damiano’s work has always had an emblematic side. In his early collages and paintings, objects were presented rather as one finds them displayed…
Dan Corbin
Dan Corbin’s figurative sculptures are a convergence of conceptual tendencies and the human figure. In Corbin’s intersection of figuration and conceptualism, past, present and future…
Chella
Born in Indiana and a graduate of Ball State University with a BS in Art Education, Chella came to Modesto in September 1956 and over…
Deborah Butterfield
Assembling her sculpture from junk materials, defining her skills as a true constructivist
Stephen Braun
A piercing visual language, one that motivates us, if not to act, then to think differently
Elmer Bischoff (1916-1991)
Elmer Bischoff is generally regarded as one of the leaders among the artists in the San Francisco Bay Area who, after contributing to the local…
Wesley Anderegg
Influences of Modigliani’s elongated faces and the monumental heads of Easter Island
