Stephen De Staebler (American, –2011)

Timeline

1933
Born in Saint Louis, Missouri
1951
Black Mountain College, NC. Studied with Ben Shahn
1950–1954
BA, Religion, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ
1957–1958
Chadwick School, Rolling Hills, CA (Teaching)
1958–1959
General Secondary Teaching Credential, University of California, Berkeley, CA.
1959–1961
MA, University of California, Berkeley, CA
1961–1962
San Francisco State College, San Francisco, CA (Teaching)
1961–1967
San Francisco Art Institute, San Francisco, CA (Teaching)
1967–1992
San Francisco State University, San Francisco, CA (Teaching)

Exhibitions

2007
Stephen De Staebler: Figure Columns, Paul Thiebaud Gallery, San Francisco, CA (Solo)
2006
Stephen De Staebler: Figure Columns, Zolla Lieberman Gallery, Chicago, IL (Solo)
The Sculpture of Stephen De Staebler, Graduate Theological Union, Berkeley, CA (Solo)
Stephen De Staebler: Recent Sculpture, Fresno Art Museum, Fresno, CA (Solo)
Soring Spirits - Feet of Clay, Schneider Museum of Art, Southern Oregon University, Ashland, OR
2005
Stephen De Staebler: Recent Work, Franklin Parrasch Gallery, New York, NY (catalogue)
A Broken Beauty: Figuration, Narrative and the Transcendent in North American Art, Laguna Art Museum, Laguna Beach, CA.
Innovation and Change: Great Ceramics from the Permanent Collection, Ceramic Research Center, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ.
Bodies of Clay, Evansville Museum, Evansville, IN.
From Tiles to Totems: A Century of Northern California Ceramics, Art Foundry Gallery, Sacramento, CA
2004
Stephen De Staebler: Master Artist VI: A Thirty Year Survey, Hearst Art Gallery, Saint Mary’s College of California, Moraga, CA (Solo)
Stephen De Staebler: Figure Column Series, Franklin Parrasch Gallery, New York, NY (catalogue)
The Human Condition: Sculptures by Stephen De Staebler, University of California, San Francisco, CA (Solo)
Onward and Upward, Zolla-Lieberman Gallery, Chicago, IL
2003
Stephen De Staebler: Master Artist VI: A Thirty Year Survey, Hearst Art Gallery, Saint Mary’s College of California, Moraga, CA
Stephen De Staebler: Figure Column Series, Franklin Parrasch Gallery, New York, NY (catalogue)
The Human Condition: Sculptures by Stephen De Staebler, University of California, San Francisco, CA (Solo)
Bay Area Revisited, Schick Art Gallery, Skidmore College, Saratoga Springs, NY
2002
Franklin Parrasch Gallery, New York, NY
National Academy of Design, New York, NY
2001
Poetics of Clay: An International Perspective, Philadelphia Art Alliance, PA
2000
Campbell Thiebaud Gallery, San Francisco, CA
Defining Moments in Contemporary Ceramics: Color and Fire, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA
Made in California, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA
1999–2000
Regis Masters Series Lectures and Exhibition, Minneapolis Institute of Arts, Northern Clay Center, MN
1999
Stephen De Staebler: Major Works From The 1980s, October 5 - November 20, Franklin Parrasch Gallery, New York, NY (catalogue)
Stephen De Staebler: Winged Figures, January 17 - March 7, Brauer Museum of Art, Valparaiso, IN. Traveled to Union University, Jackson, TN
The Art of Craft: Contemporary Works from the Saxe Collection, M.H. de Young Memorial Museum, Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, San Francisco, CA (catalogue)
The Nude in Clay II, Wustum Museum of Art, Racine, WI
Clay into Art: Selections from the Collection of Contemporary Ceramics in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
1998–1999
Contemporary Ceramics: Selections from the Metropolitan Museum of Art, NY, Friends of the Contemporary Ceramics Society, Jupiter, FL
1998
Franklin Parrasch Gallery, New York, NY (Solo)
Sculpture: Bronze and Ceramic, Northern Arizona University, Flagstaff, AZ (Solo)
Recent Work, Franklin Parrasch Gallery, New York, NY
Ceramic Sculpture: A Fine Art View, Mendocino Art Center, Mendocino, CA
Twentieth Century American Sculpture, The White House, Washington, D.C.
More than Clay, The Toki Collection of Ceramics, Richmond Art Center, CA
Clay, Jan Weiner Gallery, Kansas City, MO
Twenty-Five Treasures, Campbell-Thiebaud Gallery, San Francisco, CA
1997–1998
Sculpture, Drawings, Monotypes, Graduate Theological Union, Flora Lamson Hewlett Library, Berkeley, CA (Solo)
1997
Bay Area Art from The Morgan Flagg Collection, M.H. de Young Memorial Museum, San Francisco, CA
New Works in Clay & Bronze, University of Nevada, Sheppard Gallery, Reno, NV
Figure & Fragility, Franklin Parrasch Gallery, New York, NY
Contemporary Sculpture: The Figurative Tradition, Leigh Yawkey Woodson Art Museum, Margaret Woodson Fisher Sculpture Gallery, Wausau, WI
1996
Campbell Thiebaud Gallery, San Francisco, CA (Solo)
Stephen De Staebler, Colorado University Art Galleries, Boulder, CO (Solo)
New Works In Clay, European Ceramics Work Center, Hertogenbosch, The Netherlands. (Solo)
Recent Works, Fresno Art Museum, Fresno, CA (Solo) Lizardi/Harp Gallery, Los Angeles, CA (Solo)
Generations: The Lineage of Influence in Bay Area Art, Richmond Art Center, Richmond, CA
Rapture, San Francisco State University, San Francisco, CA
CCAC: Past, Present, and Future, California College of Arts & Crafts, Oakland, CA
1995
Udinotti Gallery, Scottsdale, AZ (Solo)
The New Bronzes, CDS Gallery, New York, NY (Solo)
1995
Udinotti Gallery, Scottsdale, AZ (Solo)
The New Bronzes, CDS Gallery, New York, NY (Solo)
1994
Campbell-Thiebaud Gallery, San Francisco, CA (Solo)
1994
Campbell-Thiebaud Gallery, San Francisco, CA (Solo)
1993
Stephen De Staebler, The Academy of Art College, San Francisco, CA (Solo)
CDS Gallery, New York, NY (Solo)
Contemporary Crafts and the Saxe Collection, The Toledo Museum of Art, Toledo, OH
Sanctuaries: Recovering the Holy in Contemporary Art, Part One, Museum of Contemporary Religious Art, Saint Louis University, Saint Louis, MO
From the Fire: Three Exhibitions in Clay—Incendiary Spirits, Palo Alto Cultural Center, Palo Alto, CA
Hospitality House 8th Annual Art Auction, Stephen Wirtz Gallery, San Francisco, CA
First Annual Pacific Rim Ceramic Sculpture, Honolulu Academy of Arts, HI
Pursuit of the Spirit —Spirit in Art: Thoughts of an Artist, The Pacific School of Religion Chapel, Berkeley, CA
1993
Stephen De Staebler, The Academy of Art College, San Francisco, CA (Solo)
CDS Gallery, New York, NY (Solo)
Contemporary Crafts and the Saxe Collection, The Toledo Museum of Art, Toledo, OH
Sanctuaries: Recovering the Holy in Contemporary Art, Part One, Museum of Contemporary Religious Art, Saint Louis University, Saint Louis, MO
From the Fire: Three Exhibitions in Clay—Incendiary Spirits, Palo Alto Cultural Center, Palo Alto, CA
Hospitality House 8th Annual Art Auction, Stephen Wirtz Gallery, San Francisco, CA
First Annual Pacific Rim Ceramic Sculpture, Honolulu Academy of Arts, HI
Pursuit of the Spirit —Spirit in Art: Thoughts of an Artist, The Pacific School of Religion Chapel, Berkeley, CA
1992
CDS Gallery, New York, NY (Solo)
Mundos de America '92, Muse de Arte Contemporaneo Sofia Imber, Conac, Venezuela
The Crucifixion Through the Modern Eye, Hearst Art Gallery, Saint Mary's College of California, Moraga, CA
It's not the Size that Counts: Small Treasures, Jack Rutberg Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
California Conference for the Advancement of Ceramic Art, John Natsoulas Gallery, Davis, CA
Ceramic Sculptures, John Natsoulas Gallery, Davis, CA
Selected Acquisitions, John Berggruen Gallery, San Francisco, CA
Bay Area Greats, Syntex Gallery, Palo Alto, CA
Rise and Remember, Trinity Episcopal Church, San Francisco, CA
Objects of Affection: Paintings, Sculpture, Works on Paper, John Berggruen Gallery, San Francisco, CA
1992
CDS Gallery, New York, NY (Solo)
Mundos de America '92, Muse de Arte Contemporaneo Sofia Imber, Conac, Venezuela
The Crucifixion Through the Modern Eye, Hearst Art Gallery, Saint Mary's College of California, Moraga, CA
It's not the Size that Counts: Small Treasures, Jack Rutberg Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
California Conference for the Advancement of Ceramic Art, John Natsoulas Gallery, Davis, CA
Ceramic Sculptures, John Natsoulas Gallery, Davis, CA
Selected Acquisitions, John Berggruen Gallery, San Francisco, CA
Bay Area Greats, Syntex Gallery, Palo Alto, CA
Rise and Remember, Trinity Episcopal Church, San Francisco, CA
Objects of Affection: Paintings, Sculpture, Works on Paper, John Berggruen Gallery, San Francisco, CA
1991
Stephen De Staebler, Monterey Peninsula Museum of Art, Monterey, CA (Solo)
Stephen De Staebler: Sculptures, Drawings and Paintings, Bade Museum, Pacific School of Religion, Berkeley, CA, and The Flora Lamson Hewlett Library/Graduate Theological Union, Berkeley, CA (Solo)
Walls: Large-Scale Ceramic Sculpture, Eight Variations, Nora Eccles Harrison Museum of Art, Utah State University, Logan, UT (catalogue)
Sculpture, CDS Gallery, New York, NY
The Dream of Egypt, Centro Cultural/Arte Contemporaneo, Polanco, Mexico
Behind the Scenes: The Collabrative Process, Berkeley Art Center, Berekley, CA
Sculptural Perspectives for the Nineties, Muckenhaler Cultural Center, Fullerton, CA
1991
Stephen De Staebler, Monterey Peninsula Museum of Art, Monterey, CA (Solo)
Stephen De Staebler: Sculptures, Drawings and Paintings, Bade Museum, Pacific School of Religion, Berkeley, CA, and The Flora Lamson Hewlett Library/Graduate Theological Union, Berkeley, CA (Solo)
Walls: Large-Scale Ceramic Sculpture, Eight Variations, Nora Eccles Harrison Museum of Art, Utah State University, Logan, UT (catalogue)
Sculpture, CDS Gallery, New York, NY
The Dream of Egypt, Centro Cultural/Arte Contemporaneo, Polanco, Mexico
Behind the Scenes: The Collabrative Process, Berkeley Art Center, Berekley, CA
Sculptural Perspectives for the Nineties, Muckenhaler Cultural Center, Fullerton, CA
1990
John Berggruen Gallery, San Francisco, CA (Solo)
Progressions II, California Crafts Museum, San Francisco, CA
Recent Acquisitions, John Berggruen Gallery, San Francisco, CA
Academy Institute Invitational of Painting and Sculpture, American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters, New York, NY
Exhibition of Work by Newly Elected Members and Recipients of Awards, American Academy and Institute of Arts Letters, New York, NY
Bay Area Sculptors of the 1960s: Then and Now, Braunstein/Quay Gallery, San Francisco, CA
Beyond the Frame: Techniques and Expressions in Sculpture, Alza Corporation, Palo Alto, CA
Outdoor Sculpture Exhibition, Esprit Sculpture Garden (in association with John Berggruen Gallery), San Francisco, CA
Contra Costa Collects Contemporary, Bedford Gallery, Regional Center for the Arts, Walnut Creek, CA
1990
John Berggruen Gallery, San Francisco, CA (Solo)
Progressions II, California Crafts Museum, San Francisco, CA
Recent Acquisitions, John Berggruen Gallery, San Francisco, CA
Academy Institute Invitational of Painting and Sculpture, American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters, New York, NY
Exhibition of Work by Newly Elected Members and Recipients of Awards, American Academy and Institute of Arts Letters, New York, NY
Bay Area Sculptors of the 1960s: Then and Now, Braunstein/Quay Gallery, San Francisco, CA
Beyond the Frame: Techniques and Expressions in Sculpture, Alza Corporation, Palo Alto, CA
Outdoor Sculpture Exhibition, Esprit Sculpture Garden (in association with John Berggruen Gallery), San Francisco, CA
Contra Costa Collects Contemporary, Bedford Gallery, Regional Center for the Arts, Walnut Creek, CA
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