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Robert Graham’s (1938-2008) unique ceramic sculptures and recent drawings are the subject of an exhibition at Frank Lloyd Gallery. Graham, well-known for his monumental bronze sculptures and civic monuments, has previously worked in fired clay. Like many sculptors, his ceramic sculptures convey a direct relationship to his other works, and for Graham the pieces continue his investigation of the female form. Many of these works were exhibited in an important show at the legendary Nicholas Wilder Gallery in 1975. The exhibit continues the gallery’s expanded exhibition program and presents ceramics in an historical context.
Graham’s fluid and gestural recent drawings will also be exhibited with the artist’s ceramic sculpture. His use of melted beeswax mixed with pigment, which is quickly and freely applied with a brush, is reminiscent of Sumi ink paintings. There is a realization of form within the drawings, and an immediacy of touch that reveals the sculptor’s working process and directness.
The spontaneity, tactility and expression of form are observed in both the recent drawings and ceramic works that were created over 33 years ago.
Robert Graham was born in Mexico City in 1938 and studied at San Jose State University (B.A., 1963) and San Francisco Art Institute (M.F.A., 1964). Graham’s work is represented in the collections of the Museum of Modern Art, New York, the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, and over twenty other museums worldwide. Commissioned sculptural installations include The Great Bronze Doors of the Cathedral of Our Lady of the Angels, Los Angeles, the Charlie Parker Memorial in Kansas City, Missouri, and the Duke Ellington Monument in New York City, and the FDR Memorial in Washington DC.
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Education
1961-1963 San Jose State College
1963-1964 San Francisco Art Institute
Museum Collections
The Contemporary Museum, Honolulu, Hawaii
Dallas Museum of Fine Art, Dallas, Texas
Des Moines Art Center, Des Moines, Iowa
Detroit Institute of Arts, Detroit, Michigan
Frederick Weisman Art Foundation, Los Angeles, California
Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington DC
Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art, Kansas City, Missouri
Kunstmuseum, Hamburg, Germany
Kunstmuseum, Cologne, Germany
Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, California
Ludwig Museum, Aachen, Germany
Museum of Art, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, California
Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Texas
The Museum of Modern Art, New York
Museum of Modern Art, Paris, France
National Gallery of Art, Washington DC
National Museum of Wales, Cardiff, United Kingdom
Norton Simon Museum of Art, Pasadena, California
Oakland Museum of Art, Oakland, California
Palm Springs Art Museum, Palm Springs, California
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, California
Smith College, Northhampton, Massachusetts
Snite Museum of Art, University of Notre Dame, Indiana
Victoria and Albert Museum, London, United Kingdom
Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, Minnesota
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York
Selected Solo Exhibitions
2014 Early Work: 1969-1974, Kayne Griffin Corcoran, Los Angeles, California
2011 Early Work, 1963-1973, David Zwirner Gallery, New York
2010 Selected Work, Frank Lloyd Gallery, Santa Monica, California
Imago Galleries, Palm Desert, California
2009 Ace Gallery, Los Angeles, California
2008 Ceramic Sculptures 1975 and Drawings 2007-08, Frank Lloyd Gallery,
Santa Monica, California
Robert Graham Sculptures and Drawings, Ace Gallery, Beverly Hills, California
2007 Body of Work, Fisher Gallery, University of Southern California, Los Angeles,
California
2006 Imago Galleries, Palm Desert, California
Tremaine Gallery at the Hotchkiss School, Lakeville, Connecticut
2005 Ace Gallery, Beverly Hills, California
Imago Galleries, Palm Desert, California
2004 Riva Yares Gallery, Santa Fe, New Mexico
2003 Imago Galleries, Palm Desert, California
2001 Earl McGrath Gallery, New York
1999 Contemporary Art Institute, Sapporo, Japan
City of Iwamizawa, Hokkaido, Japan
Kemper Museum of Art, Kansas City, Missouri
Frederick Spratt Gallery, San Jose, California
1998 Larry Evans/James Willis Gallery, with Frederick Spratt Gallery,
San Francisco, California
Riva Yares Gallery, Santa Fe, New Mexico
Peter Blake Gallery, Laguna Beach, California
Riva Yares Gallery, Scottsdale, Arizona
1997 Museo del Palacio de Bellas Artes, Mexico City, Mexico
Galeria OMR, Mexico City, Mexico
1996 Gagosian Gallery, New York
Larry Evans/James Willis Gallery, with Frederick Spratt Gallery,
San Francisco, California
Remba Gallery, West Hollywood, California
Fahey/Klein Gallery, Los Angeles, California
1995 Chac-Mool Gallery, Los Angeles, California
Mikimoto Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
1994 Frederick Spratt Gallery, San Jose, California
San Jose Museum of Art, San Jose, California
Gagosian Gallery, New York
1993 Building Arts Gallery, Venice, California
FIAC'93, Galerie Neuendorf, Grand-Palais, Paris, France
1992 Robert Miller Gallery, New York
48 Market Street Gallery, Venice, California
1991 John Berggruen Gallery, San Francisco, California
1990 Mixografia Gallery, Los Angeles, California
Robert Miller Gallery, New York
Galerie Neuendorf, Frankfurt, Germany
Galerie Fahnenmann, Berlin, Germany
Earl McGrath Gallery, Los Angeles, California
48 Market Street Gallery, Venice, California
1989 Robert Miller Gallery, New York
1988 Los Angeles, County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, California
1985 48 Market Street Gallery, Fragments Exhibition, Venice, California
1984 Gemini G.E.L., Los Angeles, California
ARCO Center for Visual Arts, Los Angeles, California
1982 Norton Gallery and School of Art, West Palm Beach, Florida
Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Texas
Joslyn Art Center, Omaha, Nebraska
Des Moines Art Center, Des Moines, Iowa
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, California
Robert Miller Gallery, New York
1981 Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, California
Dorothy Rosenthal Gallery, Chicago, Illinois
School of Visual Arts, New York
Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, Minnesota
1980 Dorothy Rosenthal Gallery, Chicago, Illinois
1979 Galerie Neuendorf, Hamburg, Germany
Robert Miller Gallery, New York
Dag Hammarskjold Plaza, New York
1978 Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, California
Robert Miller Gallery, New York
Dorothy Rosenthal Gallery, Chicago, Illinois
1977 Robert Miller Gallery, New York
Nicholas Wilder Gallery, Los Angeles, California
John Stoller Gallery, Minneapolis, Minnesota
Dorothy Rosenthal Gallery, Chicago, Illinois
1976 Greenberg Gallery, St. Louis, Missouri
Galerie Neuendorf, Hamburg/Cologne, Germany
Gimpel Fils, London, United Kingdom
1975 Dorothy Rosenthal Gallery, Chicago, Illinois
Felicity Samuel Gallery, London, United Kingdom
Gimpel & Hanover Galerie, Zurich, Switzerland
Gimpel & Hanover Galerie, Basel Art Fair, Basel, Switzerland
Nicholas Wilder Gallery, Los Angeles, California
1974 Felicity Samuel Gallery, London, United Kingdom
Galerie Zwirner, Cologne, Germany
Galerie Neuendorf, Hamburg/Cologne, Germany
Gimpel & Hanover Galerie, Zurich, Switzerland
Nicholas Wilder Gallery, Los Angeles, California
Texas Gallery, Houston, Texas
1972 Dallas Museum of Fine Arts, Dallas, Texas
Galerie Herbert Meyer-Ellinger, Frankfurt, Germany
Courtney Sale Gallery, Dallas, Texas
1971 Kunstverein, Hamburg, Germany
Sonnabend Gallery, New York
1970 Galerie Mollenhoff, Cologne, Germany
Galerie Neuendorf, Hamburg/Cologne, Germany
Galerie Rene Block, Berlin, Germany
Whitechapel Gallery, London, United Kingdom
1969 Kornblee Gallery, New York
Nicholas Wilder Gallery, Los Angeles, California
1968 Galerie Neuendorf, Hamburg/Cologne, Germany
Galerie Zwirner, Cologne, Germany
Kornblee Gallery, New York
1967 Galerie Thelen, Essen, Germany
Nicholas Wilder Gallery, Los Angeles, California
1966 Nicholas Wilder Gallery, Los Angeles, California
1964 Lanyon Gallery, Palo Alto, California
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