Bird Song is a one-of-a-kind, hand-painted book, acrylic and paste on Stonehenge paper, page size 19" x 12.5" (opens to 19" x 25"), 64 pages + cover, created by Ward Schumaker during the end of 2017 and the beginning of 2018.
Saturday, May 19, 2018
Thursday, May 3, 2018
Congressman Adam Schiff
As top Democrat on the House Intelligence Committee, Adam Schiff's work has proven to be a crucial one in dealing with the investigation into Russia’s involvement with the 2016 election. Last night My wife, Vivienne Flesher, and I attended a small event in his honor. We don't have many political heroes, but he is one. We gave him a copy of our book Hate Is What We Need (a collection of quotes by Donald Trump) and he appeared delighted with it, even holding it up so our hostess could snap this photo. Our hostess, by the way, Eleni Kounalakis (former ambassador to Hungary) is running for Lieutenant Governor of California and we think she deserves your vote.
Have I mentioned (perhaps too often?) my book is available on Amazon or directly on Chronicle Books website
Thursday, April 5, 2018
Biography | Curriculum Vitae
Ward Schumaker has shown in New York, San Francisco, Shanghai, Berkeley, Los Angeles, Nashville, Charleston, Tulsa, Miami and Sacramento.
Upcoming Events:
Book signing for Hate Is What We
Need: San Francisco Center for the Book; San Francisco; 18 April 2018
Group show: No Rhyme or Reason;
Jack Fischer Gallery; San Francisco; April 2018 (collages)
Talk + book signing for Hate Is
What We Need: San Francisco Museum of Craft and Design; San Francisco; 21 June
2018
Talk: Painted Pages: Book Club of California; San Francisco, CA; 19 November 2018
Publications:
Hate
Is What We Need (trade edition of a book of hand-stenciled quotes
from Donald Trump) published by Chronicle Books; April 2018
Solo Exhibitions:
Staking
Up | Adding Up; Orth Contemporary Gallery; Tulsa, OK; Mar 2018
Priapus
and Rain Fall; Jack
Fischer Gallery, SF CA, Apr-May 2017
Demi-Urge; Schema
Projects; Brooklyn, NY; Dec 2016 - Jan 2017
Probe; Zeitgeist
Gallery; Nashville, TN; Mar-Apr 2016
Dogon
Kayak; Jack Fischer Gallery; San
Francisco, CA; Sep-Oct 2015
Do
| Undo; Sanchez Art Center; Pacifica,
CA; Feb-Mar 2015
Years of Pretty; Jack Fischer Gallery; San Francisco,
CA; Sep-Oct 2013
Summon
Me!; Dominican University; San Rafael, CA; June thru Aug 2013
Dumb
Boxes; George Lawson Gallery; Los Angeles, CA; Nov 2012
New
Work, New York; O K
Harris Gallery; New York, NY Nov 2012
Geography
Lesson; Zeitgeist Gallery; Nashville, TN; Nov-Dec 2011
Identity
Papers; O K Harris Gallery; New York, NY; Oct-Nov 2011
Composers; Skinner
Howard Art; Sacramento, CA; June-July 2011
Composers; George
Lawson Gallery; San Francisco, CA; Feb-Mar 2011
Misspells
+ Cross-outs; Stir Gallery; Shanghai, China; Sept-Oct 2010
Fashion
+ Logic; George Lawson Gallery; San Francisco, CA; Feb 2010
Nina Zurier Photographs + Ward Schumaker
Paintings; Hilliard Architects Gallery, San Francisco, CA; Aug-Nov
2009
Saved!; Townsend
Center, UC Berkeley; Berkeley, CA; March-May 2008
Books
and Drawings; Meridian Gallery; San Francisco, CA; Feb-March
2008
I
Am Big Heaven; Stir Gallery; Shanghai, China; June 2007
Grace; Zeitgeist
Gallery; Nashville, TN; Jan-Feb 2005
Pretty; Seam; San
Francisco, CA; July-Aug 2004
Gertrude
Stein’s Paris France; Moe’s Books; Berkeley, CA; June 2000
Talks:
Painted Text: Achenbach
Graphic Arts Council, Legion of Honor; April 2018
Painted Pages: Magic City Books; Tulsa, OK, March 2018 (and book
signing)
Painted Text: Reva and
David Logan Symposium on the Artist's Book, Legion of Honor, Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco; San
Francisco; October 2017
Antipode: Colophon
Club, Berkeley, CA; February 2017
Group Exhibitions:
139x
Nothing But Good; group show; Park, Tilburg,
Netherlands; Feb - Mar 2018
MONA Selects: Recently Acquired Work; MONA, Kearney, NE; Jan-Mar 2018
Text
and Image: Inspired Alphabets, Fine Arts
Museums of San Francisco, SF CA, Mar-July 2017
Overloaded; NIAD
Art Center; Richmond, CA; Nov 2016
Black
and White Project; Transmitter Gallery; Brooklyn, NY;
Aug 2016
Le
Dessin S'Engage; Biblioteque d'Art de Miramas; Miramas, France; Apr-May 2016
Look!
Book Arts; Healdsburg Center for the Arts; Healdsburg, CA; Apr-May 2016
Paper
Paris; Schema Projects (Brooklyn); in Drawing Now; Paris, France; Mar 2016
Embossed; Gallery Molly
Krom; New York, NY; Jul-Aug 2015
Embossed; Gallery Look&Listen;
Saint Chamas, France; May-Jun 2015
SFArtMrkt; Jack
Fischer Gallery; San Francisco, CA; May 2015
Art
on Paper; Jack Fischer Gallery; New
York, NY; Mar 2015
Codex
Book Fair; Jack Fischer Gallery; Richmond,
CA; Jan 2015
Miami
Project; Jack Fischer Gallery; Miami Art Basel; Miami, FL; Dec 2014
SFArtMrkt; Jack
Fischer Gallery; San Francisco, CA; May 2014
Miami
Project; Jack Fischer Gallery; Miami Art Basel; Miami, FL; Dec 2013
Aqua
Art Fair; George Lawson Gallery; Miami Art Basel; Miami, FL; Dec 2012
The
Art of Living; Museum of Nebraska Art; Kearney,
NE; Sept 2012–Jan 2013
GuangHwaMun
International; Seoul,
Korea; Apr-May; 2012
The
Collage Show; Jack Fischer Gallery; San
Francisco, CA; December 2011
Sight
and Identity; Stanford-in-Washington; Washington, DC; Oct 2011–Jan
2012
Physical
Graffiti; James Oliver Gallery; Philadelphia, PA; Sept-Oct 2011
Rebound:
A Survey of Contemporary Artist’s Books; Sonoma Valley Museum of Art;
Sonoma, CA; Jun-Aug 2011
Seeing
Gertrude Stein; Contemp. Jewish Museum; San Francisco, CA;
May-Sep 2011
Rebound:
Book Art; Bedford Gallery; Walnut Creek, CA; Jul-Sep 2010
Kaboom!; La Luz de
Jesus Gallery; Los Angeles, CA; July 2010
California
Summer; George Lawson Gallery; San Francisco, CA; July 2010
Appropriations; Rebekah
Jacob Gallery; Charleston, SC; March 2010
Selected
of the Selected; Korean Cultural Center; Los Angeles, CA; Feb-Mar
2010
Texto-&-Figura; Nat.Gallery
of Costa Rica+San Francisco+Cascais, Portugal; 2010-11
Art Miami Basel-Aqua Art; George
Lawson Gallery; Miami, FL; Dec 2009
Gallery Artists Group Exhibition; Stir
Gallery; Shanghai, China; Sept 2009
2009
Lawson Gallery Artists; Shasta College; Redding, CA; Aug-Sept 2009
Selected
Drawings; George Lawson Gallery; San Francisco, CA; Aug 2009
Who
Cares?; Stir Gallery; Shanghai, China; May 2009
Being; Stir
Gallery; Shanghai, China; September-October 2008
Works
on Paper; Zeitgeist Gallery; Nashville, TN: Aug-Sept 2008
Salon; Exploding Head;
Sacramento, CA; Sept 2006
X
Libris; San Francisco Center for the Book; San Francisco, CA; July 2006
23rd
Annual; Berkeley Art Center; Berkeley, CA; July 2006
Surface
Tension; Korean Cultural Center; Los Angeles, CA; April 2006
Picture
Mechanics; Zeitgeist Gallery; Nashville, TN; March -April 2006
The
Shape of Words; Exploding Head Gallery; Sacramento, CA; July 2005
Picture
Mechanics; Exploding Head Gallery; Sacramento, CA; Sept 2004
Dialogue; Pete &
Susan Barrett Gallery; Santa Monica, CA; Feb-Mar 2004
Detail; Zeitgeist
Gallery; Nashville, TN; Jan-Feb 2004
Switchyard; Zeitgeist
Gallery; Nashville, TN; July-Aug-Sept 2003
Picture
Mechanics; Zeitgeist Gallery; Nashville, TN; March -April 2003
Picture
Mechanics; 69A Gallery; San Francisco, CA; March 2002
Four
Artists; Montalvo Center for the Arts; Saratoga, CA; 1983
Related Professional Appearances:
Collections:
Drawings, hand-painted
books and paintings in public collections:
Achenbach
Foundation for Graphic Arts, Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco
Joslyn Art
Museum, Omaha, NE
Letterform
Archive; San Francisco, CA
Margulies
Collection at the Warehouse, Miami Beach, FL
MONA,
Kearney, NE
Sonoma State University Art Collection, Rohnert Park, CA
University
of Minnesota
Zimmerli
Art Museum of Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ
Limited-edition letterpress
books illustrated for The Yolla Bolly Press (Paris France by Gertrude Stein; Two
Kitchens in Provence by MFK Fischer) in public collections:
Boston
Public Library
California Poly
State University
California
State Library
California
State University, Hayward
California
State University, Chico
Claremont
College
Indiana
University
Kansas
State University
Los Angeles
Public Library
Miami
University Library (OH)
New York
Public Library
Occidental
College
University
of Alberta (Canada)
University
of Buffalo
University
of California, Berkeley, Bancroft Library
University
of California, Irving
University
of California, Los Angeles Library
University
of California, Riverside
University
of California, San Diego
University
of Iowa
University
of Michigan, Ann Arbor
University
of Missouri, Kansas City
University
of North Carolina
University
of San Francisco, Gleeson Library
University
of Southern California
University
of Utah
San Jose
State University Library
Scripps
College, Denison Library
Stanford
University
Swarthmore
College
Wake Forest
University
Exhibition Design: Unlimited by Design; wall-sized images for exhibit;
Cooper Hewitt, The National Design Museum, Smithsonian, New York, New York
As an illustrator, Mr. Schumaker's work has appeared world-wide, working
for The New York Times, The Boston Globe, Süddeutsche
Zeitung, The Washington Post and Le Figaro; The New Yorker, Poetry, Oprah
Magazine, Martha Stewart, Enjeux Les Echoes, and Newsweek. He has created images for
Hermès, United Airlines, Herman Miller, American Express and many other
corporations.
Artsy Article on Hate Is What We Need
Scott Indrisek has written a review of my new book, Hate Is What We Need.
You can read it on Artsy:
The Artist Painting Trump's Most Incendiary Words.
You can read it on Artsy:
The Artist Painting Trump's Most Incendiary Words.
Excerpt from Hate Is What We Need by Ward Schumaker, published by Chronicle Books 2018.
The book is now in bookstores and you can buy it on the websites of Amazon or Chronicle Books .
Saturday, March 3, 2018
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