Post Modernist Color Pop Art Metal Dog Sculpture Memphis Milano Peter Shire LA

Dimensions: H: 31.0, W: 49.0, D: 18 IN

Peter Shire (American, b. 1947) "Springer Fos Dog,"

1987,

Painted metal sculpture Hand signed, titled and dated on foot,

Dimensions: overall: 31"h x 49"w x 20"d

Peter Shire (born 1947) is a Los Angeles, California artist. Shire was born in the Echo Park district of Los Angeles, where he currently lives and works. His sculpture, furniture, painting, prints and ceramics have been exhibited in the United States, Italy, France, Japan and Poland; Shire has been associated with the Memphis Group of designers, has worked on the Design Team for the XXIII Olympiad with the American Institute of Architects, and has designed public sculptures suitable for outdoors in Los Angeles and other California cities. Shire has been honored by awards for his contribution to the cultural life of the City of Los Angeles. He is an influential LA ceramicist along with and influenced by Ken Price and ceramic master Peter Voulkos. Of a similar mod vibe to Charlie Hewitt and Brad Howe. The Memphis Milano Group was an Italian design and architecture group founded in Milan by Ettore Sottsass in 1982 that designed Post modern furniture, fabrics, ceramics, glass, and welded, painted, metal objects from 1981 to 1988. The Memphis group's work often incorporated plastic laminate and was characterized by ephemeral design featuring colorful and abstract decoration as well as asymmetrical shapes, sometimes arbitrarily alluding to exotic or earlier styles. They drew inspiration from such movements as Art Deco and Pop Art, including styles such as the 1950s Kitsch and futuristic themes. Other members included Martine Bedin Michael Graves, Javier Mariscal, Nathalie du Pasquier, Matteo Thun and

Marco Zanuso. He was included in the Sullivan Goss show L.A. in S.B. of Postwar and Contemporary California artists including Emerson Woelffer, Ynez Johnston, Peter Krasnow, Edgar Ewing. Their styles ran the gamut from Post Cubist Abstraction to Abstract Surrealism to Abstract Expressionism. In the rich soil of their efforts was grown the next generation of some of L.A.’s art superstars. As well as contemporary artists such as Ed Ruscha, David Hockney, Charles Arnoldi, Betye Saar, Frank Gehry, Kenton Nelson, Peter Shire, Patssi Valdez, and Dave Lefner.

Further reading A Neglected History: 20th Century American Craft. New York, New York: American Craft Museum, 1990. Clark, Garth. American Ceramics 1907–Present. New York, New York: Abbeville Press, 1987. Domergue, Denise. Artists Design Furniture. New York, New York: Harry N. Abrams, 1984. Fiell, Charlotte and Peter. 1000 Chairs. Italy: Taschen, 2000. Herman, Lloyd E. Art that Works. Seattle, Washington: University of Washington Press, 1990. Horn, Richard. Memphis: Objects, Furniture, and Patterns. Philadelphia, Pennsylvania: Running Press, 1983. Radice, Barbara. Memphis. New York, New York: Rizzoli International Publications, 1984. Taragin, Davara S. Contemporary Crafts and Saxe Collection, The Toledo Museum of Art. New York, New York: Hudson Hills Press, 1993. Tempest in a Teapot: The Ceramic Art of Peter Shire. New York, New York: Rizzoli International Publications, 1991.

Select Museum Collections: Art Institute of Chicago, Illinois

Brooklyn Museum of Art, Brooklyn, New York Berkeley Museum, Berkeley, California Fresno Museum of Art, Fresno, California The Israel Museum, Jerusalem, Israel The Jewish Museum, New york city Judisches Museum, Frankfurt, Germany Laguna Art Museum, Laguna Beach, California Long Beach Museum of Art, Long Beach, California Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, California Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York Mint Museum of Craft and Design, Charlotte, North Carolina Museum of Arts and Design, New York Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Texas Museum of Modern Art, Lodz, Poland Newport Art Museum, Newport Beach, California Oakland Museum of Art, Oakland, California Österreichisches Museum für Angewandte Kunst, Vienna, Austria Portland Art Museum, Portland, Oregon Sak’s Fifth Avenue, New York San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, California San Jose Museum of Art, San Jose, California Seattle Museum of Art, Seattle, Washington Skirball Museum, Los Angeles, California Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, The Netherlands Total Contemporary Art Museum, Seoul, Korea Victoria and Albert Museum, London, United Kingdom

Selected Solo Exhibition venues

Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, California

Chouinard Gallery, South Pasadena, California

Antonia Jannone Gallery, Milan, Italy

Teapots and Drawings, Tobey C. Moss Gallery, Los Angeles, California

LA Artcore Center, Los Angeles, California

S.K. Josefsberg Gallery, Portland, Oregon

20th Century Collage, Dallas, Texas

Toomy-Turrel Gallery, San Francisco, California

Frank Lloyd Gallery, Santa Monica, California

Bobbie Greenfield Gallery, Santa Monica, California

Diane Nelson Fine Art, Laguna Beach, California

Loyola University, New Orleans, Louisiana

S.K. Josefsberg Gallery, Portland, Oregon

University of Judaism, Platt Gallery, Los Angeles, California

El Centro del Pueblo, Los Angeles, California

Gallery Saito, Sapporo Hokkaido, Japan

Morgan Gallery, Kansas City, Missouri

Riva Yares Gallery, Scottsdale, Arizona

Daniel Saxon Gallery, Los Angeles, California

David Lawrence Editions, Beverly Hills, California

Art et Industrie, New York

Clara Scremini Gallery, Paris, France

Design Gallery Milano, Milan, Italy

Lucy Berman Gallery, Palo Alto, California

Parallel Gallery, Del Mar, California

Davis-McClain Gallery, Houston, Texas

Saxon-Lee Gallery, Los Angeles, California

Traver-Sutton Gallery, Seattle, Washington

Onyx Gallery, Los Angeles, California

Skirball Museum, in cooperation with Saxon-Lee Gallery, Los Angeles, California

Installation of the Olympic Village Entertainment Center, California State

Polytechnic University in conjunction with the School of Architecture

Museum of Contemporary Art, Temporary Contemporary, Los Angeles,

Hokin-Kaufman Gallery, Chicago, Illinois

Hand and the Spirit Gallery, Scottsdale, Arizona

B.Z. Wagman Gallery, St. Louis, Miss

Traver Sutton Gallery, Seattle, Washington

The Morgan Gallery, Shawnee Mission, Kansas, Missouri

The Art Store, Los Angeles, California

American Hand Gallery, Washington, D.C

Modernism, San Francisco, California

Studio Alchymia, Florence, Italy

Janus Gallery, Venice, California

Janus Gallery, Los Angeles, California

The Hand and Eye, Honolulu, Hawaii

Gallery 17848, Tustin, California