David Gilhooly (1943-2013) Wall Assemblage

David Gilhooly (1943 – 2013) assemblage. Assemblage measure 20″ wide, 8″ deep and 24″ high. Mr. Gilhooly is mostly known for his ceramics and assemblages are extremely rare.Signed on the back as follows:
Forget the Blues, and dated 5-97.
About the artist.
He was an American ceramicist, sculptor, painter, printmaker, and professor. He is best known for pioneering the Funk art movement. He made a series of ceramic frogs called FrogWorld, as well as ceramic food, planets, and other creatures. Gilhooly, together with Robert Arneson, Peter Vandenberge, Chris Unterseher, and Margaret Dodd, working together in TB-9 (temporary building 9) were what was later to be called, The Funk Ceramic Movement of the San Francisco Bay Area. David 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.

From 1967 to 1969, Gilhooly taught at San Jose State University (SJSU). In 1969, Gilhooly met ceramicist Victor Cicansky at UC Davis and, at his suggestion, he took a teaching position at the University of Saskatchewan in Canada (1969 to 1971). He followed this with seven years at York University, in Toronto, Canada. In 1995, Gilhooly moved to Oregon with his second wife Camille Chang. He was a member of the Royal Canadian Academy of Arts.