1. David Gilhooly was an American ceramicist, sculptor, painter, printmaker, and professor.
16 Facts About David Gilhooly
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David Gilhooly is best known for pioneering the Funk art movement.
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David Gilhooly made a series of ceramic frogs called FrogWorld, as well as ceramic food, planets, and other creatures.
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David James Gilhooly III was born on April 15,1943, in Auburn, California.
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David Gilhooly was raised in Los Altos, California; Saint Croix in the Virgin Islands; and Humacao, Puerto Rico.
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David Gilhooly enrolled in University of California, Davis initially studying biology, followed by anthropology, and ending with a focus on fine art.
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David Gilhooly graduated from UC Davis with a BA degree in 1965, and an MA degree in 1967.
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David Gilhooly 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.
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From 1967 to 1969, David Gilhooly taught at San Jose State University.
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In 1969, David Gilhooly met ceramicist Victor Cicansky at UC Davis and, at his suggestion, he took a teaching position at the University of Saskatchewan in Canada.
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David Gilhooly followed this with seven years at York University, in Toronto, Canada.
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In 1995, David Gilhooly moved to Oregon with his second wife Camille Chang.
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David Gilhooly was a member of the Royal Canadian Academy of Arts.
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David Gilhooly created clay objects that are satirical takes on contemporary life.
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David Gilhooly died of complications related to cancer on August 21,2013, at his home in Newport, Oregon.
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David Gilhooly has a public fountain made of ceramic frogs, titled Merfrog Family which was created for the Stanford Shopping Center in Stanford, California.