Gay Outlaw

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Gay Outlaw
Born1959
NationalityAmerican
Education International Center of Photography
École de Cuisine La Varenne
Alma mater University of Virginia
Awards SECA Art Award
Website https://www.gayoutlaw.com/

Gay Outlaw (born 1959) is an American artist working in sculpture, photography and printmaking. She is known for her "rigorous and unexpected explorations of material". [1] She is based in San Francisco, California. [2] [3]

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Early life and education

Gay Outlaw was born in 1959 in Mobile, Alabama to Arthur R. and Dorothy (Smith) Outlaw. [2] [4] [5] She received her BA in French from the University of Virginia in 1981. [2] She studied pastry from 1981 until 1982 at the École de Cuisine La Varenne, a cooking school in Paris. [2] After Paris, she moved to New York and took classes at the International Center for Photography between 1987-1988. [6] [4]

Work

Outlaw's early work was made of perishable items such as pastry and caramels. In 1995, she created a 34-foot-long wall of fruitcake bricks and installed it at Yerba Buena Gardens in San Francisco. [3] She embraces the transformations that occur with these time sensitive mediums, challenging people's expectations of sculpture being stable. [7] Outlaw's recent work includes assemblages with her photographs and cast glass sculptures she calls "puddles". [1]

When asked the meaning of her work, Outlaw said, "The message is no message. I call it formal free association". [3]

Outlaw continually explores duality in her work, for example, interior and exterior, or solids and voids. [1] One of her notable pieces, Black Hose Mountain, is a huge sculpture consisting of black hoses filled with plaster.

Outlaw is represented by Gallery Anglim Gilbert in San Francisco. [8]

Selected exhibitions

Solo exhibitions

1990 – The Friends of Photography at the Ansel Adams Center, San Francisco, California

1996 – “New Pictures and Sculpture,” Refusalon, San Francisco, CA and Littlejohn Contemporary Art, New York, New York

1998 – SFMoMA's SECA Art Award Exhibition, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, California [9]

2003 – “New Work by Gay Outlaw,” University of Virginia Art Museum, Charlottesville, Virginia

2004 – “Impermeable,” Gallery Paule Anglim, San Francisco, California

2005 – “Three-legged Inversions,” Mills College Art Museum, Oakland, California

2007–2008 – “Gay Outlaw: Recent Work,” Gatehouse Gallery, di Rosa Preserve, Napa, California

2009 – “Gay Outlaw: New Sculpture,” Gallery Paule Anglim, San Francisco, California

2011 – “Gay Outlaw: The Velocity of Ideas,” Center for Contemporary Art, Sacramento, California

2012 – "New Work, Gallery Paule Anglim, San Francisco, California. [10]

2014 – "Home", Gallery Paule Anglim, San Francisco, California. [6]

2016–2017 – "Mutable Object", Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art at the University of Oregon, Eugene, Oregon [2]

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References

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  5. "Dorothy Smith Outlaw". Press-Register. January 31, 2022. Retrieved 1 September 2022.
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