Darryl Sapien

Unscrewed

1981

This artwork "Untitled #1" c.1970 is a colors pastel and crayon on thick paper by American artist Jerry Opper, 1924-2014. It is hand signed in pencil at the lower right corner by the artist. The image size is 26.5 x 20.5 inches, sheet size is 28.5 x 22.5 inches. It is in excellent condition, there are pastel marks on the margin all around the artwork and also on the back, see picture #1. About the artist: Jerry Opper was born in Cleveland, Ohio, on September 5, 1924. He moved to Los Angeles with his family in 1933. After graduating from Hollywood High School, he worked in movie studios and attended art classes at Chouinard Art Institute. In May 1942, Opper was drafted into the army and was then able to study at the Colorado Springs Fine Arts Center while his outfit was stationed in Colorado. Later he was sent to Guam and was discharged in December 1945. Opper returned to Chouinard and his work in movie studios until 1947, when he moved to San Francisco. He enrolled as a full-time student at the California School of Fine Arts (now SFAI) and received his diploma in June of 1950. In 1948, Opper met his wife Gertrud Ruth Friedmann, daughter of artist Gustav Friedmann, whose works are also in the Lost Art Salon collection. It was love at first sight and a few weeks after their first encounter at the Black Cat in San Francisco's North Beach, they got married and enjoyed a passionate, life-long romance. Shortly after he finished school, Opper worked briefly as a decorator’s assistant and then started his career as a commercial artist, working for several firms such as Fibreboard, Beatrix Food and Precision. Working full-time and dedicating himself to having a rich family life occupied most of Opper's time, but he continued to be creative. He was above all a family man with the pride of having raised two exceptional daughters, Erika and Jody. Year after year, Opper would painstakingly craft their Halloween costumes...

This artwork titled "The Split Man" 1976 is an original serigraph by American artist Darryl Sapien, b.1950. It is hand signed, titled, dated and numbered 7/60 in pencil by the artist. The image size 21.5 x 29.5 inches, sheet size is 27.5 x 38.75 inches, framed size is 30.5 x 41.75 inches. It is framed in a wooden black frame. It is in excellent condition, The frame has very minor restorations, barely visible. About the artist: Selected exhibitions. San Francisco Art Institute, B.F.A., Sculpture 1974 "Introductions 74," Hansen-Fuller Gallery, San Francisco, California (Group Exhibition) 1976 San Francisco Art Institute, M.F.A., Sculpture 1976 "17 Artists, Hispano/Mexican American/Chicano," The Mexican Museum, San Francisco, California (Group Exhibition) 1976 "Other Sources," San Francisco Art Institute, (catalog)(Group Exhibition) 1977 "Work in Progress,” Union Gallery, San Jose State University, San Jose, California (catalogue) 1977 "Painting and Sculpture in California: The Modern Era," (catalog) San Francisco Museum of Modern Art & The Gallery of the National Collection of Fine Arts, Washington, D.C. (Group Exhibition) 1977 "Tokyo-Bay Area Exchange," Kanagawa Prefectural Hall, Tokyo, Japan (Group Exhibition) 1977 "Arte Fiera di Bologna," Bologna, Italy (Group Exhibition) 1978 "California-Hawaii Biennial," San Diego Fine Arts Gallery, Honolulu Museum of Art, Honolulu, Hawaii (Group Exhibition) 1979 “Darryl Sapien, Recent Work,” Gallery Paule Anglim, San Francisco, California 1979–1980 "From Self-Portrait to Autobiography," Neuberger Museuem, Purchase, New York, New Gallery of Contemporary Art, Cleveland Ohio (catalog) (Group Exhibition) 1980 "Space/Time/Sound: A Decade in the Bay Area," San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (catalog) (Group Exhibition) 1981 "19 Artists, Emergent Americans," Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York City (catalog) (Group Exhibition) 1981 "La Vue Independante," The American Center, Paris France (Group Exhibition) 1981 “American Roulette”, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, NY (Performances) 1982 "California Art on the Road," Laguna Beach Museum of Art, Laguna Beach, California (Group Exhibition) 1984 “Darryl Sapien at Studio Ink,” San Francisco, California 1984 "Crime and Punishment," Triton Museum of Art, Santa Clara, California (Group Exhibition) 1984 "Artists and the Theater," Phillipe Bonnafont Gallery, San Francisco, California (Group Exhibition) 1985 "The Twentieth Century," San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (Group Exhibition) 1985 Contemporary Art, 30,000 B.C. to the Present," San Jose Institute of Contemporary Art, San Jose, California (Group Exhibition) 1987 "Connotations," Southern Exposure Gallery, San Francisco, California (Group Exhibition) 1988 “Darryl Sapien: Artspace Painting Grant Award” Artspace Gallery, San Francisco, California (catalogue) 1988 "Digital Visions: Computers and Art," Everson Museum of Art, Syracuse University, New York (catalog) (Group Exhibition) 1989 "Darryl Sapien and David Flipse" Riskin-Sinow Gallery, San Francisco, California (Group Exhibition) 1990 "The Written Word," Richmond Art Center, Richmond, California (Group Exhibition) 1991 "Four Hispanic Artists," San Francisco Art Commission Gallery (Group Exhibition) 1994 “Darryl Sapien: Recent Work,” Opts Art, San Francisco, California 1995 "Facing Eden: One Hundred Years of Landscape Art in the Bay Area," M.H. DeYoung Museum, San Francisco, California (Group Exhibition) 1996 “Darryl Sapien,” City College of San Francisco 2003 "Reactions, Artists Respond to September 11, 2001," Library of Congress, Washington, D.C. (Group Exhibition) 2005 “Darryl Sapien,” Swallowtail Gallery, San Francisco, California 2010 "75 Years of Looking Forward" San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (catalog) (Group Exhibition) 2010 “Radical Light,” U.C. Berkeley Art Museum (catalog) (Group Exhibition) 2011 “State of Mind: new California Art circa 1970” (catalog) Orange County Museum of Art, California (Group Exhibition) 2012 Berkeley Art Museum, U.C. Berkeley, California (Group Exhibition) 2012 Belkin Gallery, University of British Columbia, Canada (Group Exhibition) 2013 Site Santa Fe, NM (Group Exhibition) 2013 The Bronx Museum of the Arts, NY (Group Exhibition) 2013 “Son of War Games”, The Bronx Museum of the Arts, New York, NY (Performances) 2013–2014 The Smart Museum, Chicago, IL (Group Exhibition) 2014 "The site a live" San Francisco Art Institute (Group Exhibition) 2015 "Out Of This World," Bonnafont Gallery, San Francisco, California Public Collections Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York City San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, California Berkeley Art Museum, University of California, Berkeley The Oakland Museum, Oakland, California The American Academy of Opthalmology, San Francisco, California National Automobile and Casualty Insurance Company, Pasadena, California City and County of San Francisco-Public Utilities Commission Building Performances “Synthetic Ritual”, San Francisco Art Institute “Initiation”, San Francisco Art Institute “War Games”, corner of Third & Howard Street San Francisco, California (outdoor sitespecific) “Split-Man Bisects the Pacific”, the ruins of Sutro Baths...

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