Gay outlaw
Gay Outlaw
“ featured are free-standing sculptures, which spring from Outlaw’s dialogue with photography and again connect to both the material and structures of her earlier work ”
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Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art, University of Oregon
“g intuitively, Outlaw regularly circles back to her photographs as well as her previous sculptures, mining their content and forms for new strategies and insights ”
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Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art, University of Oregon
“..Outlaw’s exhibition will feature a new series of eleven glass sculptures laid out on a long bleached-wood table with an asymmetrical banked surface ”
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Anglim Gilbert Gallery
Gay Outlaw (her given name) has followed an extraordinary path to becoming an artist. She was born in Mobile, Alabama in , studied French at the University of Virginia, then traveled to Paris to learn the art of pastry at La Varenne cooking school. Then she went to Fresh York to study at the International Center for Photography. She assisted the photographer William Eggleston for the Friends of Photography workshops, where she interned after relocating to the Bay Area in the early s. Her interest in the objects she was photographing soon moved her into a sculpture practice. She still starts sculptures from photographs.
Outlaw has had solo exhibitions at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, the University of California at Long Beach, Mills College Art Museum, and the Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art, University of Oregon/Eugene. She has also produced significant work in printmaking. Outlaw has worked in the Crown Point Urge studio three times; her first visit was in when she made two photogravures; in , she produced a group of prints inspired by “Brassey’s Book of Camouflage; and in , s
Other Works by Same-sex attracted Outlaw
GAY OUTLAW:
I can&#;t remember making art and thinking, oh, you understand, I&#;ve made this thing other than a more traditional type thing. You know, when I was a kid, I loved to bake. So those were temporary objects, but I was always baking and I liked sweets. And I still do. And I was taught to knit and needlepoint and cross-stitch and embroidery. I did all of that stuff with my mother and my grandmother. It was photography that sort of led me back to making objects. I was photographing isolated objects and I realized I was really interested in how they related to each other and what their shapes were. Skillet Pillar was one of the results of the playing around with mold making, and that rubber is actually a rubber that&#;s used as a mold material because it&#;s flexible so you can cast into it and peeling off, you comprehend, off the plaster or whatever you&#;re casting.
I think I started doing that because I wanted to cast a teacup in epoxy and cover it with something. And then I liked the mold. That’s what happens to me a lot. You know, I like
Gay Outlaw
Education
BA, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA
École de Cuisine La Varenne, Paris, France
The International Center of Photography
Select Solo Exhibitions
Cushionworks, San Francisco, CA
King Phillip Came Over From Germany Stoned, Crown Point Press, San Francisco, CA
Ozone, Anglim Gilbert Gallery, San Francisco, CA
Gay Outlaw: Mutable Object, Harold and Arlene Schnitzer Gallery, University of Oregon, OR
Home, Gallery Paule Anglim, San Francisco, CA
Select Group Exhibitions
A Big Show of Tiny Prints, Crown Point Squeeze, San Francisco, CA
Tikkun: For the Cosmos, the Society, and Ourselves, Contemporary Jewish Museum, San Francisco, CA
Bamyūdatoraianguru gyaku with Helen Mirra and Ian Rosen, SODA, Kyoto, Japan
Trickster Makes the World with Michael Bala, Delaplane, San Francisco, CA
FAULTline, Toby’s Art Gallery, Aim Reyes Station, CA
Jay DeFeo The Ripple Effect, Le Consortium, Dijon, France
RECONCILE, Gallery 16, San Francisco, CA
Constellated: Works by Jean Conner, Lynn Hershman Leeson, Lgbtq+ Outlaw, An