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Martha's House of Cards
1980
15 x 19 1/2 x 7 1/4 in. (38.1 x 49.53 x 18.42 cm)
Richard Shaw (Hollywood, California, 1941 - )
Let’s Look at Art: Build It, September 14, 2010 - August 7, 2011, Koret Family Gallery, San José Museum of Art.
Real and HyperReal, January 30, 2010 - August 1, 2010, New Wing, First Floor, Gibson Family and Plaza 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.
Real and HyperReal (2010)
Richard Shaw’s sculptural still lifes of common objects such as stacks of books and playing cards recall nineteenth-century still-life paintings. Shaw makes his fascinating, illusionistic stacks, however, entirely out of clay. A student at the University of California, Davis, (which fostered a legendary ceramics movement in the 1960s characterized by humorous roughly sculpted forms), Shaw took a different direction from his colleagues. He inherited their interest in puns and parody—naming this work after his wife Martha—but favored detailed realism in his trompe l’oeil sculptures. Here, in porcelain, he replicated twenty-eight life-sized playing cards that balance on worn, hardcover books. He used a decal-transfer technique to apply photo lithographs to the glazed surfaces.
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Martha's House of Cards
Sculpture
198015 x 19 1/2 x 7 1/4 in. (38.1 x 49.53 x 18.42 cm)
Richard Shaw (Hollywood, California, 1941 - )
Object Type: Sculpture
Medium and Support: Porcelain with underglaze, glaze, and overglaze transfers
Credit Line: Museum purchase with funds contributed by the Collection Committee
Accession Number: 2002.07
Exhibition
Let’s Look at Art: Build It, September 14, 2010 - August 7, 2011, Koret Family Gallery, San José Museum of Art.
Real and HyperReal, January 30, 2010 - August 1, 2010, New Wing, First Floor, Gibson Family and Plaza 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.
SJMA Label Text
Real and HyperReal (2010)
Richard Shaw’s sculptural still lifes of common objects such as stacks of books and playing cards recall nineteenth-century still-life paintings. Shaw makes his fascinating, illusionistic stacks, however, entirely out of clay. A student at the University of California, Davis, (which fostered a legendary ceramics movement in the 1960s characterized by humorous roughly sculpted forms), Shaw took a different direction from his colleagues. He inherited their interest in puns and parody—naming this work after his wife Martha—but favored detailed realism in his trompe l’oeil sculptures. Here, in porcelain, he replicated twenty-eight life-sized playing cards that balance on worn, hardcover books. He used a decal-transfer technique to apply photo lithographs to the glazed surfaces.
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Exhibition List
This object was included in the following exhibitions: - Real and HyperReal San Jose Museum of Art , 1/30/2010 - 8/1/2010
Dimensions
- Sculpture Dimensions: 15 x 19 1/2 x 7 1/4 in. (38.1 x 49.53 x 18.42 cm)
Bibliography List
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: 196-197
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