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DAVID OGLE
Born Richmond, California
Education Contra Costa College, 1963-1965, A.A. Degree Art

San Jose State University, 1965-1969, BA Degree

Ceramics, Undergraduate Assistant, Scykotyre & Cereanucs
San Jose State University, 1969-1971, MA Degree,

Sculpture, Graduate Assistant Sculpture
Post-Graduates, San Francisco State University
San Jose State University, Mission College
At Contra Costga Collage, Mr. Ogle studied art from the geometric Abstractionist painter, David Simpson. While at San Jose State University, Mr. Ogle studied sculpture with Fletcher Benton and John Battenburg, serving as an undergraduate and graduate assistant in a sculpture. Internship were served at the San Francisco Art Foundry and with sculptor John Battenberg. He also studied Ceramics with Dr. Herbert Sanders and Glass Blowing with Dr. Robert Fritz, participating in the first Raku firing and glass blowing classes at San Jose State University.

Mr. Ogle is the founder of the bronze casting and ceramics program at West Valley College. Having served as Art Department Chairman for several years, he is currently head of the Sculpture and Ceramics Department at West Valley College in Saratoga California, advisor to the Ceramics Guild and Chairman of the College Division of the Olympiad of the Art competition.

Mr. Ogle has maintained a professional art studio since 1968 and has exhibited sculpture, ceramics and works on paper in over one hundred-fifty exibitions throughout the United States, Canada, England and Europe. His work has been included in exibitions at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, Oakland Museum, DeYoung Museum, Triton Museum, Los Gatos Museum, Crocker Museum, Arts Counsel of Great Britan-White Chapel Gallery, Musee d'Art Moderne, Paris, France, LaJolla Museum, Palo Alto Art Center, Litton Center of Visual Arts, Los Angels, California. Stanford Museum Gallery, and in 1979 Mr. Ogle was granted a one person show at the San Jose Museum of Art. His work is included in numerous private collections and in the permanent collections of the Addison Gallery of American Arts in British Council for the Arts.

He has exhibited with many galleries including The Ester Robles Gallery, L.A. Ca., William Sawyer Gallery, San Francisco, Ca., Fredrick Gallery, Washington, D.C., Gargoyle Gallery, Aspen, Co., Art Foundry Gallery, Sacramento, Ca., The Art Object Gallery, San Jose Ca. and Jalbert Gallery, Saratogoa, Ca.

He is mainly a figurative sculptor who has worked in many materials including ceramics, plastics, wood, fabricated, welded and cast metals. He is currently working on a series of bronze sculpture titled "Chi, the Vital Spirit". These sculptures are narrative tableau and assemblages, using surreal imagery to depict various aspects of the human experience, exploring the nature of what is vital in figurative sculpture. Also included in his current work are a series of Saggar, fired Porcelain pieces, several series of monotype prints, ceramic sculpture, mixed/media works in a digital/laser photo essay of the remaining Richmond, CA. Kaiser shipyard buildings.