David Gilhooly is a well-known sculptor, who is recognized primarily for his ceramic sculptures of animals, food, planets and the FrogWorld.  A graduate of the University of California at Davis (BA, 1965 MA, 1967), Gilhooly along with his peers, working in TB-9 (temporary building 9) were what was later to be coined the Funk Ceramic Movement of the San Francisco Bay Area. In 1982, Gilhooly started exploring the media of Plexiglas, but still produced a multitude of ceramic pieces.  In 1996 he finally gave up clay completely to work on what Gilhooly calls the shadow boxes, which are a much evolved form of the Plexiglas pieces.  The "peep shows", as others have called them, are reminiscent of the works of Joseph Cornell. 

Gilhooly is known for his humor and artistic versatility and is best known as a ceramic artist, but is also a prolific printmaker and draftsman.  His works are in public collections through out the world.  Most recently, 70 of Gilhooly’s prints, drawing and books from the private collection of the Cantor Arts Center at Stanford Universitywere exhibited in a show called Food, Frogs, and Fido: Works on Paper by David Gilhooly.

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