Sam Richardson
Oakland, California

Fleet
mixed media
11.5 x 33 x 17 cm
2005



____Selected exhibitions

  • Toolery, solo exhibition, Barbara Anderson Gallery, Berkeley, California, 2005
  • San Francisco International Art Expo (with Tandem Press), 2005
  • Scents of Purpose, The Contemporary Jewish Museum, San Francisco, 2005
  • Selections: 35th Anniversary Exhibition, San Jose Museum of Art, California, 2004
  • Color in Space: Sam Richardson Retrospective, San Jose Institute of Contemporary Art, 2002
  • The Anderson Collection, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, 2000
  • Solo exhibition, Gwenda Jay/Addington Gallery, Chicago, 1999
  • Facing Eden: 100 Years of Landscape Art in the Bay Area, M.H. deYoung Memorial Museum, 1995

Sam Richardson was born in 1934 in Oakland, California. He received his BA, 1956, and MFA, 1960, at the California College of Arts and Crafts. In 1975, Richardson received an Individual Artist Fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts. In 1999, he was awarded an Emeritus Professorship at San Jose State University. His work is in public and corporate collections throughout the United States and major pieces are in the City Administration Complex, Livermore, California and the Koll Company, San Jose.

As my work has moved through various phases--each with a specific focus of investigation--I have called upon my fascination with storytelling (sometimes truth, sometimes fiction) and incorporated that interest with the formal elements of shape, line, and color.