Timothy L Burgard

"Clay can be a metaphor for many things. I made it a metaphor for flesh and earth."Stephen De StaeblerOver the course of a fifty-year career, Stephen De Staebler (19332011) created powerful, elegiac figurative sculptures in clay and bronze. Extending and assimilating an artistic lineage that include...

Darren Waterston's somber but sexy paintings layer curvy, organic forms over strong colors in alluring riffs on the language of landscape. As abstract works with a visceral physicality, they evoke a sense of place without geographic reference. Their night-sky blues, mist grays and blood reds are dot...

The 117 essays in this book discuss a selection of paintings from the colonial period to the present that represent a collection unrivaled in the western United States as a survey of art in America. In addition to masterworks from the Rockefeller Collection, paintings by notable modern and contempor...

This text celebrates the evolution of the contemporary crafts movement in the latter half of the 20th century, with sections on glass, ceramic, porcelain, wood, furniture, fibre and metal art. The objects are drawn from the Saxe Collection and include works by Robert Arneson and William Morris.

Dale Chihuly is the most famous and influential artist working in glass today. For more than four decades, he has been the leading figure in this unique art form, fusing traditional craft with fine art, fabrication with the natural environment. Now, in his first major San Francisco exhibition, Chihu...

In the 1950s American painter Richard Diebenkorn (1922–1993) took a dramatic turn away from his early work, exploring new vocabularies of both abstract and representational styles, which would come to be known as the artist’s “Berkeley period.” This era has long been recognized as one of the most in...

Filled with dazzling color and dynamic forms, this comprehensive volume on Dale Chihuly, one of America's foremost artists working with glass, proves that the medium has transcended the decorative arts to become a means of contemporary artistic expression in its own right. Dale Chihuly has been expl...

This book has been published on the occasion of the exhibition The Surreal World Of Enrico Donati; Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco in association with Weinstein Gallery. 64 pages including color photographs of the artist's works.