Photo: Alison Portello
Photo: Alison Portello

Novogreek Urn The Lion's Revenge on Hercufrog

USA, 1981
Elaine Levin Archive, University of Southern California
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Thrown and Altered
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Glaze
David James Gilhooly | 1943 – Present

David Gilhooly is known primarily for his ceramic sculpture of animals, food, planets and the FrogWorld. Gilhooly used his FrogWorld series to examine the world, past and present. It also allowed him to comment on social and political issues of the day. The frog theme reoccurred in his work for most of his career.

Gilhooly's use of low fired white earthenware allowed him to work with the very vibrant colors he needed for his food pieces. In the 1960s he studied at ceramics at UC Davis with Robert Arneson. It was there that, together with Arneson, Peter Vandenberge, Chris Unterseher and Margaret Dodd, Gilhooly formed part of what would become the San Francisco Bay Area Funk Ceramic Movement.

In 1982, Gilhooly started exploring the media of plexiglass, but still produced a number of ceramic pieces. In 1996 he left ceramics to work on plexiglass boxes reminiscent of the work of assemblage artist Joseph Cornell.

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Elaine Levin Archive, University of Southern California

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