David Gilhooly

David James Gilhooly III was born on April 15, 1943, in Auburn, California. He was raised in Los Altos, California;{{Cite web|title=David Gilhooly|url=https://sjmusart.org/embark/artist-maker/info/45|url-status=live|access-date=2021-06-19|website=San José Museum of Art|language=en|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210624203042/https://sjmusart.org/embark/artist-maker/info/45 |archive-date=2021-06-24 }} Saint Croix in the Virgin Islands; and Humacao, Puerto Rico.

He enrolled in University of California, Davis (UC Davis) initially studying biology, followed by anthropology, and ending with a focus on fine art. While attending UC Davis, Gilhooly served as artist Robert Arneson's assistant starting in 1963. He graduated from UC Davis with a BA degree in 1965, and an MA degree in 1967.

File:Eight Bean Stew Gilhooly 1982.jpg in Washington, DC in 2022]]

Gilhooly, together with Robert Arneson, Peter Vandenberge, Chris Unterseher, and Margaret Dodd, working together in TB-9 (temporary building 9) were what was later to be called, The Funk Ceramic Movement of the San Francisco Bay Area.{{Cite web|title=Gilhooly|url=https://www.themarksproject.org/marks/gilhooly|url-status=live|access-date=2021-06-19|website=The Marks Project|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150226181859/http://themarksproject.org:80/marks/gilhooly |archive-date=2015-02-26 }} 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.{{When|date=June 2021}}

From 1967 to 1969, Gilhooly taught at San Jose State University (SJSU).{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=GgLrAAAAMAAJ|title=A Decade of Ceramic Art, 1962-1972, from the Collection of Professor and Mrs. R. Joseph Monsen|date=1972|publisher=Lithography: Graphic Press|others=San Francisco Museum of Art|language=en}} In 1969, Gilhooly met ceramicist Victor Cicansky at UC Davis and, at his suggestion, he took a teaching position at the University of Saskatchewan in Canada (1969 to 1971).{{Cite book|last=Clark|first=Garth|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=XFtQAAAAMAAJ&q=david+gilhooly+york+university|title=A Century of Ceramics in the United States, 1878-1978: A Study of Its Development|date=1979|publisher=E. P. Dutton|others=Everson Museum of Art of Syracuse and Onondaga County Art|isbn=978-0-525-07820-3|language=en}} He followed this with seven years at York University, in Toronto, Canada.{{Cite book|last=Crawford|first=Gail|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=PoI7AgAAQBAJ|title=A Fine Line: Studio Crafts in Ontario from 1930 to the Present|date=1998-10-01|publisher=Dundurn|isbn=978-1-4597-2573-7|pages=109|language=en}}{{cite web|last=Gilhooly|first=David|title=Curriculum Vitae|url=http://www.davidgilhooly.com/99cv.htm|accessdate=24 September 2013|url-status=dead|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20130927072335/http://www.davidgilhooly.com/99cv.htm|archivedate=27 September 2013}}

In 1995, Gilhooly moved to Oregon with his second wife Camille Chang.{{cite web|date=September 15, 2013|title=David Gilhooly dies at 70; a leader of Bay Area funk art movement|url=https://www.latimes.com/obituaries/la-me-david-gilhooly-20130916,0,7541301.story|url-status=live|work=Los Angeles Times|accessdate=2013-09-16|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130917081025/http://www.latimes.com/obituaries/la-me-david-gilhooly-20130916,0,7541301.story |archive-date=2013-09-17 }}

He was a member of the Royal Canadian Academy of Arts.{{cite web|title=Members since 1880|url=http://www.rca-arc.ca/en/about_members/since1880.asp|url-status=dead|publisher=Royal Canadian Academy of Arts|accessdate=11 September 2013|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20110526215339/http://www.rca-arc.ca/en/about_members/since1880.asp|archivedate=26 May 2011}}

Gilhooly created clay objects that are satirical takes on contemporary life. Works such as his Victoria. Bathing with the Beavers (Art Gallery of Nova Scotia), might contain imperfections to mimic hobby work.{{cite web |title=Exhibitions |url=https://www.artgalleryofnovascotia.ca/exhibitions/folkfunk |website=/www.artgalleryofnovascotia.ca |publisher=AGNS |access-date=4 February 2023}}

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

Public art collections holding works by David Gilhooly including the Art Gallery of Nova Scotia; Arizona State University Art Collections (Tempe, Arizona); the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco;{{Cite web|date=2018-09-21|title=David Gilhooly|url=https://art.famsf.org/david-gilhooly|access-date=2021-06-19|website=FAMSF Search the Collections|language=en}} the Art Institute of Chicago;{{Cite web|title=David James Gilhooly III|url=https://www.artic.edu/artists/31278/david-james-gilhooly-iii|url-status=live|access-date=2022-02-15|website=Art Institute of Chicago|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220215195537/https://www.artic.edu/artists/31278/david-james-gilhooly-iii |archive-date=2022-02-15 }} the Honolulu Museum of Art; the Jane Voorhees Zimmerli Art Museum at Rutgers University; the Little Rock Art Center (Little Rock, Arkansas); the Louisiana State University (Baton Rouge, Louisiana); the National Gallery of Canada;{{Cite web|title=David Gilhooly|url=https://www.gallery.ca/collection/artist/david-gilhooly|url-status=live|website=National Gallery of Canada|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171226063018/https://www.gallery.ca/collection/artist/david-gilhooly |archive-date=2017-12-26 }} the Norton Museum of Art; the Oakland Museum of California; the Palm Springs Desert Museum; the Philadelphia Museum of Art;{{Cite web|title=Collections: David Gilhooly|url=https://www.philamuseum.org/collections/results.html?searchTxt=&bSuggest=1&searchNameID=19159|url-status=live|access-date=2021-06-20|website=Philadelphia Museum of Art|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210624201058/https://www.philamuseum.org/collections/results.html?searchTxt=&bSuggest=1&searchNameID=19159 |archive-date=2021-06-24 }} the San Antonio Museum of Art; the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art;{{Cite web|title=Gilhooly, David|url=https://www.sfmoma.org/artist/david_gilhooly/|url-status=live|access-date=2021-06-20|website=San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (SFMOMA)|language=en-US|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210511121129/https://www.sfmoma.org/artist/David_Gilhooly/ |archive-date=2021-05-11 }} the San Jose Museum of Art; the Anderson Collection at Stanford University;{{Cite web|title=David Gilhooly, Hoarding My Frog Food 1982|url=https://anderson.stanford.edu/collection/hoarding-my-frog-food-by-david-gilhooly/|url-status=live|access-date=2021-06-19|website=Anderson Collection at Stanford University|language=en|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150425142648/http://anderson.stanford.edu/collection/hoarding-my-frog-food-by-david-gilhooly/ |archive-date=2015-04-25 }} the Stedelijk Museum; the University of California, Santa Barbara (UCSB); the Vancouver Art Gallery; the Whitney Museum of American Art;{{Cite news|last=Sheets|first=Hilarie M.|date=2020-03-26|title=Weaving a Way Out of Isolation|language=en-US|work=The New York Times|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/26/arts/design/liza-lou.html|access-date=2021-06-19|issn=0362-4331}}{{Cite web|title=David James Gilhooly, Merfrog and Her Pet Fish|url=https://whitney.org/collection/works/2345|url-status=live|access-date=2021-06-19|website=whitney.org|language=en|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190314113224/https://whitney.org/collection/works/2345 |archive-date=2019-03-14 }} and the Smithsonian American Art Museum.

Gilhooly has a public fountain made of ceramic frogs, titled Merfrog Family (1978) which was created for the Stanford Shopping Center in Stanford, California. His ceramic sculpture work Performing Frogs (1982) is located at Hult Center for the Performing Arts in Eugene, Oregon.{{Cite web|title=Performing Frogs, (sculpture).|url=https://siris-artinventories.si.edu/ipac20/ipac.jsp?&profile=all&source=~!siartinventories&uri=full=3100001~!328725~!0|url-status=live|access-date=2021-06-20|website=Smithsonian Institution|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151004211215/http://siris-artinventories.si.edu/ipac20/ipac.jsp?&profile=all&source=~!siartinventories&uri=full=3100001~!328725~!0 |archive-date=2015-10-04 }}

Gilhooly's first marriage was to Sheila Ann Allee in 1963, which ended in 1982 in divorce. Together with Allee they had four children. In 1983, he married Camille Chang and they had three children together.

• {{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=RUlSHQAACAAJ|title=Nut Pot Bag or Clay Without Tears|publisher=University of California, Davis|others=Authored by Jim Adamson, Robert Arneson, Clayton Bailey, Fred Bauer, Maija Peeples-Bright, Victor Cicansky, David Gilhooly, Jim Melchert, Nicholas Stephens, Chris Unterseher, Peter Vandenberge, David Zack, Lowell Darling|year=1971|type=artist book}}

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• Baker, Kenneth, David Gilhooly, With Tony Williams, John Natsoulas, Terry Ann Tafoya. Davis, California: John Natsoulas Press, 1992.

• [http://www.artcyclopedia.com/artists/gilhooly_david.html ArtCyclopedia]
• University of Regina Archives and Special Collections. David Gilhooly Fonds. https://www.uregina.ca/library/services/archives/collections/art-architecture/gilhooly.html

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