Nuts and Who's: A Candy Store Sampler, August 11, 2023 – February 25, 2024, Gibson Family Gallery and Plaza Gallery, San José Museum of Art.

Renegade Humor, February 3, 2012 - July 8, 2012, New Wing, Second Floor, Central Skylight and South Metro A Galleries, San José Museum of Art.

Tales from the Kiln: Contemporary Ceramics, September 1, 2005 – July 9, 2006, New Wing, Second Floor, North Gallery, San José Museum of Art.

Collecting Our Thoughts: The Community Responds to Art in the Permanent Collection, June 23, 2001 - September 23, 2001, New Wing, Metro A, Skylight and South Galleries, Second Floor, San José Museum of Art.

The Lighter Side of Bay Area Figuration, co-organized by the Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art in Kansas City, Missouri April 7 - June 18, 2000; and the San Jose Museum of Art, September 3-November 26, 2000, New Wing, Metro A, Skylight and South Galleries, Second Floor.

Renegade Humor (2012)

Peter VandenBerge’s humorous anthropomorphizing of the carrot parallels the frog caricatures of fellow artist David Gilhooly. Indeed, VandenBerge did for the carrot what Gilhooly had done for the frog: both artists irreverently immortalized their subjects in clay.

According to VandenBerge, his love affair with the root vegetable began when he and Gilhooly stopped by a San Francisco farmers’ market in 1968. “Struck by the forms,” for the next several years VandenBerge began to incorporate them into his work. While his sculptures share the satirical humor of Gilhooly’s frogs, VandenBerge’s works exhibit a highly refined elegance. Couple Watching Saturday Night Movie is an excellent example of the artist’s ability to achieve delicate modeling on very intimate scale.

This object was included in the following exhibitions:

• The Lighter Side of Bay Area Figuration San Jose Museum of Art , 9/3/2000 - 11/26/2000

• Sculpture Dimensions: 13 x 12 x 11 in. (33.02 x 30.48 x 27.94 cm)

This object has the following bibliographic references:

• Selections: The San Jose Museum of Art Permanent Collection. Selections: The San Jose Museum of Art Permanent Collection San Jose Museum of Art. San Jose, CA, 2004
  Page Number: 228-229

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