RICHARD DEUTSCH
340 Swanton Road Davenport, California 95017 • 831.427.2529
       
  BIOGRAPHY    
       
  AWARDS AND HONORS  
       
  1992 American Institute of Architects and Landscape Architects, East Bay, Orchid Award for Voyage sculpture at City Center, Oakland, California  
       
  1987 Visiting Sculptor, American Academy, Rome, Italy  
       
  1984 National Endowment for the Arts Visual Artist’s Fellowship  
       
   
  SELECTED PUBLIC ART PROJECTS  
       
  2005 Francis Newlands Johnston Park and William Sharon Farr Park, Chevy Chase Center, Washington, D.C.: Art environment centered around water features for two urban plazas. Collaboration with William K. Hellmuth, AIA, senior principal, Suzette Goldsterin, AICP, Hellmuth, Obata+Kassabaum, P.C., and Don Hoover, principal, Oculus Landscape Architecture. Art adviser: Françoise Yohalem, Bethesda, Maryland. Commissioned by the Chevy Chase Land Company.  
       
  2005 Congregation Shir Hadash, Los Gatos, California
Memorial sanctuary is a serene focal point for temple Congregants to remember, honor and celebrate family, friends and generations past. 70 vertical granite monoliths, which display prayers and names of loved ones, define an outdoor “room.” A water feature brings life to the Memorial’s interior and granite seating is set throughout. The design was a collaboration with artist Larry Kirkland. Commissioned by Congregation Shir Hadash.
 
       
  1999 Oakmead West, Sunnyvale, California: Sculpture and environment Etude for entry to high-technology campus. Art adviser: Cathy Baum and Associates, Atherton, California. Commissioned by CarrAmerica Realty Corporation, Washington, D.C.  
       
  1998 California Science Center, Los Angeles, California
Interactive water feature Water Story for the museum’s central plaza. Part of a larger public art installation created by the artist Larry Kirkland. Commissioned by Larry Kirkland, Washington, D.C.
 
       
  1996 Stanford University, Terman & Thornton Schools of Engineering
Sculptural environment Axis. Collaboration with the architects William Leddy and Marsha Maytum, AIA, principals, Tanner Leddy Maytum Stacy, San Francisco, and the landscape architect Peter Walker, Peter Walker and Partners, Berkeley, California. Commissioned by Stanford University.
 
       
  1994 Oakland Museum of California, Oakland, California
Harvest. Commissioned for the museum’s twenty-fifth anniversary by Friends of the Oakland Museum of California.
 
       
  1991 City Center, Oakland, California
Member of design team engaged to integrate art into 1111 Broadway’s plazas and gardens. Unity, two granite sculptures; Voyage, a solid bronze wall relief, nine granite benches, a granite footpath, and a water feature. Collaboration with architects from Gensler & Associates, San Francisco, and the landscape architect Paul Lettieri, of Guzzardo and Partners, San Francisco, California. Commissioned by Glenn Isaacson, Bramalea Paci€c, Oakland, California.
 
       
  1989 Port of Oakland, Oakland, California
Motion, wall relief; Lean, stone sculpture and stone seating. Collaboration on lobby design with Bill Donald, AIA, I.D.G. Architects, Oakland, California. Commissioned by Oakland Portside Associates, Oakland, California.
 
       
  1988 San Francisco Arts Commission, Art in Public Places Program
Propeller, terrazzo artwork for Great Seawall Promenade. Commissioned by the City of San Francisco.
 
       
  1987 Washington State Arts Commission, Art in Public Places Program
Stele, marble sculpture for Shelton Police Academy, Shelton, Washington. Purchased by the Washington State Arts Commission.
 
       
   
  SOLO EXHIBITIONS  
       
  1977 Craft & Folk Art Museum, Los Angeles, California  
       
  1977 Long Beach Museum of Art, Long Beach, California  
       
  1979 Foster White Gallery, Seattle, Washington  
       
  1984 Foster White Gallery, Seattle, Washington  
       
  1984 B. Z. Wagman Gallery, St. Louis, Missouri  
       
  1989 Louise Allrich Gallery, San Francisco, California  
       
  1990 Louise Allrich Gallery, San Francisco, California  
       
  1993 Oakland Museum Sculpture Court, Oakland, California  
       
  1997 Foster White Gallery, Seattle, Washington  
       
  2001 Gerald Peters Gallery, Santa Fe, New Mexico  
       
  2002 Museum of Art and History, Santa Cruz, California  
       
  2005 Gerald Peters Gallery, Santa Fe, New Mexico  
       
   
  SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS  
       
  1980 American Porcelain: New Directions in an Ancient Art, Renwick Gallery, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C.  
       
  1982 Pacific Currents, San Jose Museum of Art, San Jose, California  
       
  1983 Contemporary Expressions, San Jose Institute of Contemporary Art, San Jose, California  
       
  1988 Bay Area Sculpture: Metal, Stone, Wood, Palo Alto Cultural Center, Palo Alto, California  
       
  1995 Light Interpretations, The Jewish Museum, San Francisco, California  
       
  1995 Concept in Form: Artists’ Sketchbooks & Maquettes, Palo Alto Cultural Center, Palo Alto, California  
       
  1999 The Art of Craft: Contemporary Works from the Saxe Collection, M. H. de Young Memorial Museum, San Francisco, California  
       
  2005 Sculpture and Prints, Gerald Peters Gallery, Santa Fe, New Mexico  
       
   
  SELECTED PRIVATE COMMISSIONS  
       
  2002 Dorros Family Residence, Jackson Hole, Wyoming
Integrated sculptural environment with granite focal sculptures and table.
 
       
  2000 Wornick Family Vineyard, St. Helena, California
Seven Stones is a large granite abstract sculpture and environment
based on fragmented and re-assembled Italian ruins.
 
       
  1999 Tillotson Collection, Sandy, Utah
Integrated environment of focal sculpture, stone seating, stone table.
 
       
  1998 Gerald Peters Gallery, Santa Fe, New Mexico
Sculptural seating for new gallery courtyard.
 
       
  1996 Seiler Collection, Atherton, California
Stacked Column, 12'H granite sculpture
 
       
  1994 Staglin Family Vineyard, Rutherford, California
Harvest Table, 18'L granite table for vineyard
 
       
  1993 George & Dorothy Saxe Collection, Menlo Park, California
Passage, 8' granite, terrazzo and marble sculpture
 
       
  1992 Richard & Rhoda Goldman Collection, Atherton, California
Harvest Table, 5' h. slate table
 
       
  1990 Private Collection, Nashville, Tennessee
Solstice is an environmental sculpture and seating of slate based on the workings of an ancient sundial.
 
       
   
  MUSEUM COLLECTIONS  
       
    Henry Art Gallery, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington  
       
    M. H. de Young Memorial Museum, San Francisco, California  
       
    Oakland Museum of California, Oakland, California
 
       
     Renwick Gallery, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C.  
   
   
BIBLIOGRAPHY  
       
    Blasier, Paula. Voyage: From Ship’s Propeller to Sculpture. Oakland, Calif.: Bramalea Pacific, 1991. Includes a photo essay by Terence McCarthy.  
   
    Broadrup, Elizabeth. “Motion: Wall Relief at Port of Oakland.” Sculpture Magazine (November/December 1990).  
   
    Burgard, Timothy Anglin. The Art of Craft: Contemporary Works from the Saxe Collection, exh. cat. San Francisco: The Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco; Boston: Bul€nch Press/Little, Brown, 1999.  
       
    Clifton, Leann. “An Oakland Odyssey.” Artweek (29 January 1992).  
       
    Fuhrman, Janice. “A Napa Family Vineyard.” California Homes Magazine (October 2000). Article about the Staglin Family Vineyard art collection.  
       
    Guenther, Bruce. Richard Deutsch Sculpture. Santa Cruz, California:
Museum of Art and History, 2001. 88-page catalog.
 
       
    “Harvest.” Sculpture Magazine (July/August 1995). Article on Deutsch’s commission for the Oakland Museum of California.  
       
    Mayer, Barbara. “Dream House for a Dream Collection.” Art & Antiques (April 2000). Article about the Wornick family art collection.  
       
    Misrach, Myriam Weisang. “Ideas Beneath the Surface: Richard Deutsch.” The Museum of California (magazine of the Oakland Museum of California) (winter 1993).  
       
    Narain, R. Kamna. “Public Art.” The Business Journal (October 1998). Article describing Deutsch’s project for Oakmead West in Sunnyvale, California.  
       
    Suter, P. “Integrating Art into Development.” Urban Land Magazine (September 1991).