Garr Ugalde is a sculptor who has lived and worked in the Sacramento
area since 1993. Originally born in Hawaii he grew up primarily
in Omaha, Nebraska. He studied abroad in the mid-nineteen seventies in
Caracas, Venezuela. He attended art school at the University of
Nebraska at Omaha before moving to California in 1979 to attend San
Jose State University where he studied printmaking and sculpture. Upon
graduation he lived in San Francisco and Oakland before moving to the
Central Valley. Since coming to the Sacramento region he has set up a sculpture studio
and has been actively involved in the arts community for nearly twenty
years. A one-time member of the Arts in Public Places Committee
he has been involved in selecting some of the most prominent artworks
in the city. He also has completed several public commissions
throughout the city and the region. He has been exhibiting widely
throughout the Sacramento Valley and has shows scheduled for Santa Fe,
NM, Portland, OR and San Francisco, CA
In 2008 he began the “Art2 (Art Squared)” video project
with fellow artist Christine Hodgins as a way of documenting and
spotlighting artists in the Sacramento and Northern California
region. He is currently working on a series of artworks in
bronze, ceramic and mixed media for upcoming gallery exhibits and
site projects.
BORN
Honolulu, HA, 1959
EDUCATION
San Jose State
University, San Jose, CA – Bachelor of Arts Degree, 1983
University of
Nebraska at Omaha, Omaha, NE, 1977-1979
Creighton
University, Omaha, NE, 1977-1978
PROFESSIONAL
Sculptor,
1993-Present
Working in the
mediums of bronze, ceramic and plaster sculpture artworks, limited
editions and site-specific public art.
Producer/Director,
2008-Present
Created “ART2”
(art squared), a video series currently in production profiling
California west coast and central valley regional artists. Each
episode includes profiles and a conversation between two artists.
Sacramento
Metropolitan Arts Commission, Sacramento, CA, 1999-2001
Art in Public
Places committee member, served to select public artworks for new
development sites throughout the Greater Sacramento region.
Center for
Contemporary Art, Sacramento, CA, 2000-2001
Board member
serving to select artists for exhibitions, as well as, curating
“Arte Cubano”, selected works from Robert Freimark’s art collection of
contemporary Cuban artists in 2001.
PUBLIC ART
COMMISSIONS
Three Graces, cast bronze, 2009
English Elm Tree Historical Timeline, cast bronze, 2005
William Bean Memorial, cast bronze and granite, 2003
B.T. Collins Federal Army Reserve, cast bronze and marble, 2000
Dos Coyotes Border Café, (3) cast bronze figures, 2000
North Laguna Creek Park, (4) cast cement coyotes, 1995
California Veteran’s Memorial Site Marker, cast bronze and marble,
1993
UPCOMING
EXHIBITS
“Flatlanders on the Slant” Richard L. Nelson Gallery,
UC Davis, Davis, CA, 2012
SELECTED EXHIBITS
“Navigatio”, Site Project, The Temp Gallery, Sacramento, CA, 2012
“War Stories”, American River College, Kaneko Gallery, Sacramento, CA,
2012
“ Human Voice”, Sacramento Art Complex, Sacramento, CA, 2012
“Nudes”, Milk Gallery, Sacramento, CA, 2012
“Works on Paper”, Solomon-Dubnick, Sacramento, CA, 2011
“Drawings and Sculpture”, Art Foundry Gallery, Sacramento, CA, 2011
“Bronze”, Art Foundry Gallery, Sacramento, CA, 2010
Center for Contemporary Art, Sacramento, CA, 2010
“Pop Prints”, SD 25 Gallery, Sacramento, CA, 2009
“Fire to Figura”, SD 25 Gallery, Sacramento, CA, 2009
“The Animal Within”, Solomon-Dubnick, Sacramento, CA, 2009
“Artist’s Studio”, Center for Contemporary Art, Sacramento, CA, 2009
Bemis Center for Contemporary Art, Omaha, NE, 2007
4th Avenue Lofts Gallery, Sacramento, CA, 2007
“Art of the Bicycle”, The Sanchez Art Center, Pacifica, CA, 2006
Soke Fine Art, Denver, CO, 2006
“Protesting Bush’s War”, Translations Gallery, Denver, CO, 2006
Stewart-Kummer Gallery, Gualala, CA, 2006
Exploding Head Gallery, Sacramento, CA, 2005
“Portrait of My Father”, Center for Contemporary Art, Sacramento, CA, 2003
Center for Contemporary Art, Sacramento, CA, 2002
Sunbird Gallery, Los Altos, CA, 1990
San Jose Watercolor Society, San Jose, CA 1984
PUBLICATIONS
“Christine’s Ordinary/Extraordinary Day or Garr’s Dream” 1616 Magazine, May 2012
“City Junk Becomes a Cautionary Artistic Vision”, Sacramento Bee, Jan. 2012
“Art Pick of the Week”, Sacramento Bee, Jan. 2012
“Season of Love”, SFexaminer.com, Feb. 2010
“Trees of History”, Sacramento Bee, Aug. 2004
“Arte Cubano”, Sacramento Bee, May 2001 |