Gay Outlaw | |
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Born | 1959 |
Education |
International Center of Photography École de Cuisine La Varenne |
Alma mater | University of Virginia |
Awards | SECA Art Award |
Website | https://www.gayoutlaw.com/ |
Gay Outlaw (born 1959) is an American artist working in sculpture, photography and printmaking. She is known for her "rigorous and unexpected explorations of material". [1] She is based in San Francisco, California. [2] [3]
Gay Outlaw was born in 1959 in Mobile, Alabama to Arthur R. and Dorothy (Smith) Outlaw. [2] [4] [5] She received her BA in French from the University of Virginia in 1981. [2] She studied pastry from 1981 until 1982 at the École de Cuisine La Varenne, a cooking school in Paris. [2] After Paris, she moved to New York and took classes at the International Center for Photography between 1987-1988. [6] [4]
Outlaw's early work was made of perishable items such as pastry and caramels. In 1995, she created a 34-foot-long wall of fruitcake bricks and installed it at Yerba Buena Gardens in San Francisco. [3] She embraces the transformations that occur with these time sensitive mediums, challenging people's expectations of sculpture being stable. [7] Outlaw's recent work includes assemblages with her photographs and cast glass sculptures she calls "puddles". [1]
When asked the meaning of her work, Outlaw said, "The message is no message. I call it formal free association". [3]
Outlaw continually explores duality in her work, for example, interior and exterior, or solids and voids. [1] One of her notable pieces, Black Hose Mountain, is a huge sculpture consisting of black hoses filled with plaster.
Outlaw is represented by Gallery Anglim Gilbert in San Francisco. [8]
1990 – The Friends of Photography at the Ansel Adams Center, San Francisco, California
1996 – “New Pictures and Sculpture,” Refusalon, San Francisco, CA and Littlejohn Contemporary Art, New York, New York
1998 – SFMoMA's SECA Art Award Exhibition, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, California [9]
2003 – “New Work by Gay Outlaw,” University of Virginia Art Museum, Charlottesville, Virginia
2004 – “Impermeable,” Gallery Paule Anglim, San Francisco, California
2005 – “Three-legged Inversions,” Mills College Art Museum, Oakland, California
2007–2008 – “Gay Outlaw: Recent Work,” Gatehouse Gallery, di Rosa Preserve, Napa, California
2009 – “Gay Outlaw: New Sculpture,” Gallery Paule Anglim, San Francisco, California
2011 – “Gay Outlaw: The Velocity of Ideas,” Center for Contemporary Art, Sacramento, California
2012 – "New Work, Gallery Paule Anglim, San Francisco, California. [10]
2014 – "Home", Gallery Paule Anglim, San Francisco, California. [6]
2016–2017 – "Mutable Object", Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art at the University of Oregon, Eugene, Oregon [2]
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Gay Outlaw | |
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Born | 1959 |
Education |
International Center of Photography École de Cuisine La Varenne |
Alma mater | University of Virginia |
Awards | SECA Art Award |
Website | https://www.gayoutlaw.com/ |
Gay Outlaw (born 1959) is an American artist working in sculpture, photography and printmaking. She is known for her "rigorous and unexpected explorations of material". [1] She is based in San Francisco, California. [2] [3]
Gay Outlaw was born in 1959 in Mobile, Alabama to Arthur R. and Dorothy (Smith) Outlaw. [2] [4] [5] She received her BA in French from the University of Virginia in 1981. [2] She studied pastry from 1981 until 1982 at the École de Cuisine La Varenne, a cooking school in Paris. [2] After Paris, she moved to New York and took classes at the International Center for Photography between 1987-1988. [6] [4]
Outlaw's early work was made of perishable items such as pastry and caramels. In 1995, she created a 34-foot-long wall of fruitcake bricks and installed it at Yerba Buena Gardens in San Francisco. [3] She embraces the transformations that occur with these time sensitive mediums, challenging people's expectations of sculpture being stable. [7] Outlaw's recent work includes assemblages with her photographs and cast glass sculptures she calls "puddles". [1]
When asked the meaning of her work, Outlaw said, "The message is no message. I call it formal free association". [3]
Outlaw continually explores duality in her work, for example, interior and exterior, or solids and voids. [1] One of her notable pieces, Black Hose Mountain, is a huge sculpture consisting of black hoses filled with plaster.
Outlaw is represented by Gallery Anglim Gilbert in San Francisco. [8]
1990 – The Friends of Photography at the Ansel Adams Center, San Francisco, California
1996 – “New Pictures and Sculpture,” Refusalon, San Francisco, CA and Littlejohn Contemporary Art, New York, New York
1998 – SFMoMA's SECA Art Award Exhibition, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, California [9]
2003 – “New Work by Gay Outlaw,” University of Virginia Art Museum, Charlottesville, Virginia
2004 – “Impermeable,” Gallery Paule Anglim, San Francisco, California
2005 – “Three-legged Inversions,” Mills College Art Museum, Oakland, California
2007–2008 – “Gay Outlaw: Recent Work,” Gatehouse Gallery, di Rosa Preserve, Napa, California
2009 – “Gay Outlaw: New Sculpture,” Gallery Paule Anglim, San Francisco, California
2011 – “Gay Outlaw: The Velocity of Ideas,” Center for Contemporary Art, Sacramento, California
2012 – "New Work, Gallery Paule Anglim, San Francisco, California. [10]
2014 – "Home", Gallery Paule Anglim, San Francisco, California. [6]
2016–2017 – "Mutable Object", Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art at the University of Oregon, Eugene, Oregon [2]
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