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ARTISTS' BIOGRAPHIES Gonzalez, Arthur American; (b. 1954, Sacramento, CA; lives in Alameda, CA) 1981 MFA University of California, Davis, CA 1979 MA California State University, Sacramento, CA 1977 BA California State University, Sacramento, CA Arthur Gonzalez began his artistic career as a photorealist painter at the American River College in Sacramento before transferring two years later to California State University, Sacramento where he completed his BA in figurative painting in 1977. Following his MA SELECTED REFERENCES: Adkins, Gretchen. “A Pilgrim’s Progress on the Treadmill of 20th- in painting, also at CSUS, Gonzalez went on to receive an MFA in sculpture from the Century Life: The Lessons of Arthur University of California, Davis under the direction of Robert Arneson and Manuel Neri. Gonzalez’s Sculpture.” American Gonzalez’s works focus on the torso, rather than on the full figure, and are hung against Ceramics 10, no. 4 (1993): 44–49. walls to emphasize their pictorial quality. Influenced by strands of mysticism and traditional Gonzalez, Arthur. “Resume.” Arthur fairy tales, Gonzalez’s multi-dimensional sculptures depict man’s struggle with the natural Gonzalez. Accessed September 10, world and explore the enculturation of beauty, which the artist examines via the application 2013. http://www.arthurgonzalez.com of whiteface and make-up on many of his floating figures. A four-time recipient of the /html/resume.htm National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship (1982, 1984, 1986, 1990), Gonzalez has also Wood, Eve. “Northern California received a California Arts Council Fellowship (1994), and two Virginia Groot Foundation Ceramics: Profiles of Six Artists, Awards (1992, 1997). Beginning in 1981 as Junior Artist-in-Residence at the University of Arthur Gonzalez.” American Georgia, Gonzalez has continuously pursued opportunities to further his craft participating Ceramics 14, no. 4 (2004): 22–23. in residences at the Penland School of Crafts, Penland, North Carolina (2001); the University Zimmer, William. “Arthur Gonzalez: of Akron, Myers School of Art in Akron, Ohio (2002); the Tainan National University of Of Melodramas, Movie Stars, the Arts in Taiwan (2006); and the Pilchuck Glass Studio in Seattle (2007). Since 1991, and Modern Times.” American Gonzalez has taught at the California College of the Arts in Oakland, California. Ceramics 4, no. 1 (1985): 38–43. SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY OF ARTHUR GONZALEZ WORKS IN THE EXHIBITION '59 Dodge Custom Royal ALSO INCLUDED IN EXHIBITION Contemporary Clay Sculpture: Kinfolk Selections from the Daniel Jacobs Collection. Huntington: The Heckscher Museum, 1983. McTwigan, Michael. “A Passionate Vision: The Collector Daniel Jacobs,“ American Ceramics 3, no. 2 (1984): 28–29. 140