Lisa Reinertson Works Biography
LISA REINERTSON – Artist Biography
Lisa Reinertson is known for both her life size figurative ceramic sculptures and her large-scale public sculptures cast in bronze.
Coming from a family of peace and social activists, Reinertson’s work has an underlying humanism that can be seen both in her poetic and environmentally charged ceramic figures with animals, to her more historic public commissions that express ideals of peace and social justice. In her public sculptures of Martin Luther King, Jr. and Cesar Chavez she blends bas-relief into her three-dimensional sculptural forms creating an historic and powerfully moving narrative. Her work combines a realism rooted in figurative art traditions, with a contemporary expression of social and psychological content.
Reinertson completed her MFA at UC Davis in 1984, studying with Robert Arneson, and Manuel Neri. She has taught at several universities and colleges in Northern California including CSU Chico, Santa Clara University , UC Berkeley and most currently at the San Francisco Art Institute. Her ceramic work has been in exhibitions and museums nationally and internationally, and is in several public and private collections including the Crocker Art Museum, the ASU Art Museum, the Mint Museum and the American Museum of Ceramic Art. Recent exhibitions include her one-person show, “Edge of Extinction” at the Pence Gallery in Davis, and “Large As Life” at the American Museum of Ceramic Art. Reinertson has completed over 20 public commissions in bronze, and will be unveiling her most current work, a 7ft. bronze sculpture of U C Davis Coach Jim Sochor on November 19th at the UCD Stadium.
LISA REINERTSON – Resume
Education
1984 M.F.A. University of California, Davis
1982 B.A., University of California, Davis, with Highest Honors
1983 Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture
Teaching Experience
2012- 16 San Francisco Art Institute, Adjunct Professor, Ceramic Sculpture
2009-15 Diablo Valley College, Lecturer, Ceramics, Figure Sculpture
2007-08 U C Berkeley, Lecturer, Ceramic Sculpture
2004-15 Solano Community College, Lecturer, Ceramics, Figure Sculpture
1997-99 Santa Clara University, Lecturer, Ceramics, Figure Sculpture, Drawing
1987-94 California State University, Chico, Associate Professor, Ceramics and Figure Sculpture
1985-87 California State University, Stanislaus, Lecturer, Ceramics and Drawing
1984 Louisiana State University, Visiting Artist, Ceramics
- University of California, Davis, Teaching Assistant, Ceramics, Drawing, Art Appreciation
Public Art
2016 UC Davis Veterinary School, Gorilla Doctor Program, Sleep of Reason (to be installed)
2016 Jim Sochor, Bronze, University of California at Davis
2009 Rosa Parks Commission, finalist, National Portrait Gallery, Washington DC
2007 Suisun Valley, Mother Earth, Bronze, Public Commission
- City of San Jose, Almaden Community Center and Library, Ohlone , Bronze
2005 City of Sacramento, 911 Dispatch Facility Public Art Project
2002 Santa Clara University, St. Ignatius of Loyola, Bronze
2002 California State Courthouse, Justice Stanley Mosk, Bronze
2001 City of Sacramento, Cesar Chavez Memorial, Chavez Plaza Park, Bronze
2001City of Palm Desert, “Mother and Child Sculpture Garden”
2000 Santa Clara University, St. Thomas More, Bronze
1999 City of Riverside, CA, “Martin Luther King Memorial”, Bronze
1997 Ohlone College, Performing Arts Center, Fremont, CA, “Tevye”, Bronze
1996 City Hall, San Francisco, “Senator Dianne Feinstein”, Bronze
1995 City Hall, San Francisco, “Willie Brown, Jr.”, Bronze
1994 Guam Memorial Commission, “March to Manengon”, Bronze
1994 Centennial Commission for City of Vacaville, “Valley Harvest”, Bronze
1992 City Hall, San Francisco, “John Shelley”, Bronze
1992 UC Medical Center, Sacramento, “Mother and Child”, Bronze
1991 UC Medical Center, Sacramento, “Dogs Playing”, Bronze
1991 Commission for Arco Stadium, Sacramento, “Baseball Players,” Bronze
1989 City of Kalamazoo, Michigan, “Martin Luther King, Jr.”, Bronze
1987 King Hall Law School, U.C. Davis, “Martin Luther King, Jr.”, Ceramic
One Person Exhibitions
2015 Roscoe Ceramic Gallery, Oakland, CA Lisa Reinertson/ Sentient Beings
2013 SMAart Gallery, San Francisco, Life Observed/Lisa Reinertson
2013 Pence Gallery, Davis, CA, Lisa Reinertson/Edge of Extinction
2012 Gallery 621, Benicia, CA, Life on Earth, Lisa Reinertson/Sculpture
2005 Natsoulas Gallery, Davis, CA, Lisa Reinertson, A Selected Survey
1998 Santa Clara University, CA, Lisa Reinertson /Ceramic Sculpture
1997 John Natsoulas Gallery, Davis CA
- James Snidle Gallery, Chico, CA
1991 Natsoulas/Novelozo Gallery, Davis, CA
1990 Reynolds Gallery, University of the Pacific, Stockton, California
1989 Dorothy Weiss Gallery, San Francisco, California
1987 The University Art Gallery, California State University, Chico
1987 Himovitz/Soloman Gallery, Sacramento, California
1986 Southern Exposure Gallery, San Francisco, California
1985 Shackleford and Sears Gallery, Davis,California
1984 The Art Works Gallery, Sacramento, California
1984 University of California, Davis, Nelson Gallery
Selected Invitational Exhibitions
2016 Bay Area Contemporary Ceramic Sculptors/ Lisa Reinertson, Richard Shaw, Claudia Tarentino, Bill Abright
Cosumnes River College Art Gallery
2016 The Great California Art Movement / UC Davis Faculty and Alumni, Natsoulas Gallery
2016 Figurative Ceramics, Los Medonas College Art Gallery
2016 Sculpture in the Garden, Sam Maloof Foundation, Claremont, CA
2014 American Museum of Ceramic Art, Large As Life/ Lisa Reinertson, Elaine Katzer and Betty Davenport
2014 Turtle Bay Museum, Good Dog/ Art of Man’s Best Friend, Redding, CA
2014 Dynamic Narratives, NAWA, NY.
2013 Bedford Gallery, Peaceable Kingdom, Walnut Creek, CA
2016 NCECA, Houston, Dynamic Narratives
2012 Cal Shakes Ceramics Exhibition, Orinda, CA
2011 Santa Fe Clay, Summer Artist Preview Exhibition
2010 Crocker Art Museum, New Works
2010 Ceramics Annual of America, Fort Mason
2009 Diablo Valley College, Faculty Exhibition
2009 30 Ceramic Sculptors, Natsoulas Gallery
2008 The Grand Ceramics Theater, Representatives of the California School. Museo Internazionale delle Arti Applicate Oggi, Turino, Italy
2007 Northwest Ceramics Invitational, Turman Larison Gallery, Helena, Montana
2005 Cantor Arts Center, Stanford University, Fired at Davis/Figurative Ceramic Sculpture / The Ross Turk Collection
2004 UC Davis Memorial Union Gallery, Eve Aesthetic, Figurative Art from TB-9
2003 NCECA Conference, San Diego, Northern California Ceramics
1999 Contemporary Art/ Daniel Jacobs Collection, Hand Workshop Art Center, Richmond, VI
1999 The Charles Wustum Museum of Fine Arts, Racine, WI, “The Nude In Clay”
1998 Perimeter Gallery, Chicago, “The Nude in Clay”
1998 The LEF Foundation, St Helena, CA, “Sculptural Perspectives”
1997 American River College Art Gallery, “The Human Figure”
1997 Diablo Valley College Art Gallery, “The Evocotive Object”
1997 Comune di Faenza,Ceramic Invitational, Faenza, Italy
1997 “Up Against It”, London, England
1996 Oakland Museum Sculpture Court, “Bay Area Sculptors”
1996 Wignall Museum/Gallery; Downey Museum of Art; Loyola Marymount
University, “Exploring a Movement: Feminist Visions In Clay”
1995 Transamerica Building, San Francisco, “Play Ball!”
1994 Artworks Foundry Gallery, Berkeley
1994 Tulane University, New Orleans, Louisiana, “Presence and Scale”
1994 Honolulu Academy of Arts, “First Annual Pacific Rim Sculpture Conference
1994 The International Contemporary Art Fair, Los Angeles
1993 California Crafts Museum, San Francisco, “West Coast Clay Movement”
1993 California State Hayward, University Art Gallery, “Figurative Ceramics”
1992 Seattle Art Fair, Washington
1992 California State University, Chico, “Faculty Exhibition”
1992 John Natsoulas Gallery, Davis,“6th Annual 30 Ceramic Sculptors”
1991 Muckenthaler Cultural Center, Fullerton, “Sculptural Perspectives”
1991 NCECA Conference Exhibition, Tempe, Arizona
1991 Natsoulas Gallery, Davis,“TB-9”, curated by Robert Arneson
1990 IV Concorso Nazionale Della Ceramica D’Arte, Savona, Italy,
1990 National Museum of Ceramic Art, Maryland, “American Ceramic Sculpture”
1990 Los Angeles Art Fair, California
1990 Lang Art Gallery, Claremont, CA, “46th Annual Scripps Ceramics Show”
1990 Louisiana State University Union Gallery, “Figure in Ceramics”
1989 CSU Fullerton, “Contemporary Ceramics: The Artists of TB-9”
1989 Solano Community College, California, “Figurative Clay”
1988 California State University, Chico, “Faculty Exhibition”
1988 Euphrat Gallery, De Anza College, “On the Wall, Off the Wall”
1988 Kalamazoo Institute for the Arts, Michigan, “Dr. Martin Luther King”
1988 Midwest Museum of American Art, Indiana, “Ross Turk Collection”
1987 San Francisco Arts Commission Gallery, “Mother Earth”
1986 Himovitz/Salomon Gallery, Sacramento, California, “Eight in Clay”
1986 Anna Gardner Gallery, Stinson Beach, California, “Summer Show,”
1986 CSU, Stanislaus, “Lisa Reinertson/Anthony Natsoulas,”
1985 Richmond Art Center, “Sacramento/Davis Interface”
1984 Louisiana State University, Union Art Gallery, “Art Faculty Exhibition”
1982 Twelfth International Sculpture Conference, San Francisco, Cutter Tower
1981 Diablo Valley College Art Gallery, Pleasant Hill, CA, “New Directions,”
1981 California State University, Hayward, ” Ceramic Sculpture Invitational”
Selected Juried Group Exhibitions
2012 Ecumene: Global Interface in American Ceramics National Exhibition, Santa Fe, NM
1989 San Francisco International Airport, “California Artists as Educators”
1988 UC Berkeley, Worth Rider Art Gallery, “Fate of the Animals”
1986 Artwork Gallery, Sacramento, CA, “American Ceramic National IV”
1985 Southern Exposure Gallery, S.F., CA, “Content Art: Contemporary Issues”
1985 National Arts Club, New York, “Catherine Lorillard Wolfe 89th Annual”
1985 Pacific Grove Art Center, California, “2nd West Coast Biennial”
1985 San Francisco Arts Commission: “Celebration of Sculpture”, Fort Mason
1984 Crocker Art Museum, Sacramento, CA, “59th Annual Crocker-Kingsley
Awards
1992 Professional Achievement Honor, California State University, Chico
1990 California State Legislative Resolution In Recognition Of Martin Luther King, Jr. Commission
1989 Research Award, California State University, Chico
1985 Grand Central Gallery Educational Association Award, New York
1983 Regents Fellowship, University of California
1983 Andy Warhol Award, University of California, Davis
Lectures/Workshops
2017 La Meridiana School of Ceramics, Tuscany (upcoming )
2016 Santa Cruz Mountain Art Center Workshop
2016 Quyle Kilns Workshop, Murphy’s, CA
2015 Sierra Nevada College Summer Workshop, Lisa Reinertson and Michelle Gregor
2014 Todos Santos /Heaven on Earth Workshop, Lisa Reinertson and John Toki
2013 Pence Gallery, Davis, CA, “Hope for Endangered Animals” with Dr. Gilardi of Gorilla Doctors
2013 Academy of Art College, San Francisco, lecture
2011 Santa Fe Clay Summer Workshop, Life Size Figure Workshop
2011 S.F. Art Institute Colloquium, lecture, demonstration
2010 California State University, Fresno, lecture, demonstration
2010 California College of the Arts
2008 Helena Montana, Turman Larson Gallery
2002 California Conference for the Advancement of Ceramic Art, Davis, lecture, demonstration
1998 California State University, San Jose
1996 Academy of Art College, San Francisco
1996 Diablo Valley College, Concord, CA, demonstration
1996 American River College, Sacramento
1994 Pacific Rim Sculpture Conference, Honolulu, HI
1992 Chicago Art Institute, lecture, demonstration
1992 California Ceramics Conference, Davis
1991 Kansas City Art Institute, Lecture, life size figure demonstration
1991 NCECA, Tempe, Arizona, Emerging Artist Lecture
1990 University of Pacific
1989 Solano Community College
1988 NCECA, Portland Oregon, Group Discussion Leader with Richard Notkin,“Social Content”
1988 College of Humanities and Fine Arts, California State University Chico
1985 University of California at Davis
1985 West Virginia University
1984 Louisiana State University
Juror / Curator
2017 Bay Area Clay/ A Legacy of Social Consciousness, NCECA Portland, and Arts Benicia (Upcoming)
2015 Visions in Clay, Delta College Art Gallery
1997 California Clay Competition, The Artery, Davis, California
1993 Sacramento Light-Rail Commission, Sacramento, California
1990 Women Artists 1990, Matrix Gallery, Sacramento, California
1990 Butte College Juried Student Art Show, Chico, California
1989 Fairfield Regional, California
Bibliography
Sculpture Informs Their Powerful Messages, Victoria Dalkey, Sacramento Bee, 2013
Lisa Reinertson; Edge of Extinction, Ceramic Art and Perception, issue 94, 2013
500 Figures in Clay, vol. 2, Lark Publishing
Good Dog; Art of Man’s Best Friend, Turtle Bay Museum of Art, exhibition catalogue, 2013
Ecumene: Global Interface in American Ceramics/ National Exhibition, Santa Fe, catalogue, 2012
The Art Collection of UC Davis Health Care System, by Susan Willoughby, 2012
Artemis Sculpts, The Art of Lisa Reinertson, Jessa Berkner, 2011
Lisa Reinertson, A selected survey of Artist’s work/ by Joan De Paoli, John Natsoulas Press, 2005
Fired At Davis/Figurative Ceramic Sculpture, The Ross Turk Collection, Cantor Arts Center,
Stanford University, Hilarie Faberman, 2005
Ignatius: Holy Man of the Renaisance, Reflections on Santa Clara’s Statue of St. Ignatius, Micheal
Pastizzo, Santa Clara Magazine, 2004
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Working With Clay, Susan Peterson, Prentice Hall, 1999
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Ceramics Monthly, California Sculpture Conference, Diane Chin Lui, photo, Oct. 1998
A Fire for Ceramics, Exhibition Catalogue, Essays by Garth Clark, (Garth Clark Gallery, N.Y.) and Suzanne
Foley (Curator, Bayly Art Museum, Univ., of Virginia), 1998
The Nude In Clay, Exhibition Catalogue, Lisa Englander, photo, Nov. 1998
The Richmond Times, Arts and Entertainment, photo, Nov.1998
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Ceramiche in Faenza, Italy, Exhibition Catalogue, 1997
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New York Times, Week In Reveiw, Micheal Wines, May 1997
The Davis Enterprise, Movement and Energy, Marilyn Moyle, May 1997
Vacaville Reporter, Artistic Take on Human Nature, Richard Bammer, May 1997
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Vacaville Reporter, A Harvest of Culture, (Centennial Commission), 1995
Artweek, photo, (Guam Commission) 1994.
An Encyclopedia of Twentieth Century North American Women Artists, Garland Publishing, New York,1992.
Oakland Tribune, photo, (Baseball Commission), July 1992.
Sculptural Perspectives for the Nineties, Exhibition Catalogue, 1991.
Ceramics Monthly, Carolyn Crane, Up Front, 2nd Annual California Conference, 1991.
TB-9 — A Tribute to Robert Arneson, Exhibition Catalogue, 1991.
Contemporary Ceramics: The Artists of TB-9, Exhibition Catalogue, Elaine Levin, 1989.
Contemporary American Craft Art/A Collector’s Guide, Barbara Mayer, Peregrine Smith Books, 1988
Contrapposto, 1988, Art Journal, California State University, Chico,
Kalamazoo Gazette, Craig, Thomas, King In Bronze and Stone , Sept. 4, 1989
Artweek, Saunthy Singh, Lively Ceramic Sculpture, September, 1986
Modesto Bee, Leo Stutzin, Ceramic Sculpture, January, 1986
Ceramics Monthly, August, 1995
Sacramento Union, Richard Simon, A Fair of the Art, August 17, 1985
Sacramento Bee, Ellen Schlesinger, May 5, 1984
San Francisco Chronicle, Datebook, August 22, 1982
West Art, Andree Marchel-Workman, August 14, 1981
Selected Collections
American Museum of Ceramic Art, Pomona, CA
Crocker Art Museum, Sacramento, CA
Arizona State University Art Museum
Mint Museum of Craft and Design
CSU Sacramento
UC Davis, Nelson Gallery
Allan Chasanoff, New York
Ross Turk Collection
Other Projects
2012 Transmedia Sculpture Walk, Davis CA
2011 Mission Clay Pipes Project, Phoenix AZ
2002 Marble Carving, Carrara, Italy
