BIOGRAPHY

Born
1953   Los Angeles, California

Awards and Honors

2007 Artist of the Year, Santa Cruz County Arts Commission

2007 Building of America Award for Chevy Chase Center Project, Real Estate and Construction Review, eastern Seaboard Edition

1992 American Institute of Architects and Landscape Architects, East Bay, Orchid Award for Voyage sculpture at City Center, Oakland, California

1987 Visiting Sculptor, American Academy in Rome, Italy

1984 National Endowment for the Arts Visual Artist’s Fellowship

Selected Public Art Projects

2009 Constitution Center, Washington, DC
Legacy is a sculpture for a large interior courtyard in an historic Durell Stone designed building two blocks off the Washington DC Mall. Design Assistance: Architect Ross Charles Smith, Deutsch Studio. Project Consultant: Jeffrey Kramer Consulting, Washington DC. Commissioned by David Nassif Associates, Wellesley Hills, Massachusetts.

2008 Foundry Square, San Francisco, California
Time Signature is a landmark sculpture at the major urban intersection of First and Howard Streets. Stainless steel and 50 feet tall, Time Signature commemorates a site that has a rich industrial history of metal foundries, fundamental to the building of San Francisco. Architect: Studios, San Francisco; Landscape Architect: SWA, San Francisco. Commissioned by Glenborough, San Mateo, California.

2008 Mission Bay, San Francisco, California
Hulls commemorates the maritime history of Mission Bay’s waterfront. Design Assistance: Architect Ross Charles Smith, Deutsch Studio. Architect: Chong/Partners Architecture, San Francisco; Landscape Architect: EDAW/AECOM, San Francisco. Commissioned for 500 A. Terry Francois, San Francisco by ML Mission Bay, LLC (Lowe Enterprises Real Estate Group, San Francisco).

2008 Blu at Folsom, San Francisco, California
Fragments is a sculpture for a mixed-use development at 631 Folsom Street. Equally accessible from two properties is a large 50’ water feature of five fragmented white marble forms. Design Assistance: Architect Ross Charles Smith, Deutsch Studio. Architect Handel Architects, San Francisco; Landscape Architect: Guzzzardo Partnership, San Francisco. Commissioned by Folsom Ventures, LLC, San Francisco.

2006 Farr Park and Johnston Park, Chevy Chase City Center, Maryland
Art environment for two urban plazas. Collaboration with William K. Hellmuth, AIA, senior principal and Suzette Goldstein, AICP, Hellmuth, Obata+Kassabaum, P.C. and Don Hoover, Principal, Oculus Landscape Architecture. Art adviser: Francoise Yohalem, Bethesda, Maryland. Commissioned by the Chevy Chase Land Company.

2005 Memorial Sanctuary, Temple Shir Hadash, Los Gatos, California
Memorial sanctuary is a serene focal point for temple Congregants to remember, honor and celebrate family, friends and generations past. 70 vertical granite monoliths, which display prayers and names of loved ones, define an outdoor “room.” A water feature brings life to the Memorial’s interior and granite seating is set throughout. The design was a collaboration with artist Larry Kirkland. Commissioned by Congregation Shir Hadash.

1999 Etude, Campus for Applied Materials, Sunnyvale, California
Two 15'h.x15'w. X5'd. granite and bronze sculptures and a granite seating circle for entry to high technology campus. Art Adviser: Cathy Baum and Associates, Atherton, California. Commissioned by CarrAmerica Realty Corporation, Washington, D.C.

1998 California Science Center, Los Angeles, California
Interactive water feature Water Story for the museum’s central plaza. Part of a larger public art installation created by artist Larry Kirkland. Commissioned by Larry Kirkland, Washington, D.C.

1996 Stanford University: Terman and Thornton Schools of Engineering
Sculptural environment Axis serves as a gathering place in Gibbons’s Grove. Collaborated with architects William Leddy and Marsha Maytum, AIA, principals, Tanner Leddy Maytum Stacy, San Francisco and landscape architect Peter Walker, Peter Walker and Partners, Berkeley, California. Commissioned by Stanford University.

1994 Oakland Museum of California, Oakland, California
Harvest, a bronze sculpture of castings of historic California farm and ranch artifacts, interprets and ties together the three main focuses of the museum — the art, ecology and history of California. Commissioned for the museum’s 25th anniversary by Friends of the Oakland Museum of California.

1991 City Center, Oakland, California
Member of design team engaged to integrate art into 1111 Broadway’s plazas and gardens. Unity, two granite sculptures, Voyage, a solid bronze wall relief created from massive ship propellers, nine granite benches, a granite foot-path, and water feature. Collaborated with architects from Gensler and Associates, San Francisco, and landscape architect Paul Lettieri, of Guzzardo and Associates, San Francisco, California. Commissioned by Glenn Isaacson, Bramalea Pacific, Oakland, California.

1989 Port of Oakland, Oakland, California
Motion, wall relief of ship gears propellers and airplane parts that once transported cargo to and from Oakland, stone sculpture and stone seating. Collaborated on lobby design with Bill Donald, AIA, I.D.G. Architects, Oakland, California. Commissioned by Oakland Portside Associates, Oakland, California.

1988 San Francisco Arts Commission, Art in Public Places Program
Propeller, terrazzo artwork for Great Seawall Promenade. Commissioned by the City of San Francisco.

1987 Washington State Arts Commission, Art in Public Places Program
Stele, marble sculpture for Shelton Police Academy, Shelton, Washington. Purchased by the Washington State Arts Commission.

Selected Solo Exhibitions

2001. 2005 Gerald Peters Gallery, Santa Fe, New Mexico

2002 Museum of Art and History, Santa Cruz, California

1997 Foster White Gallery, Seattle, Washington

1993 Oakland Museum Sculpture Court, Oakland, California

1989. 1990 Louise Allrich Gallery, San Francisco, California

1979. 1984 Foster White Gallery, Seattle, Washington

1984 B.Z.Wagman Gallery, St. Louis, Missouri

1977 Long Beach Museum of Art, Long Beach, California

1977 Craft and Folk Art Museum, Los Angeles, California

Selected Group Exhibitions

2005 Sculpture and Prints, Gerald Peters Gallery, Santa Fe, New Mexico

2005 “Scents of Purpose,” Contemporary Jewish Museum, San Francisco, California

1999 The Art of Craft: Contemporary Works from the Saxe Collection
M.H. de Young Memorial Museum, Fine Arts Museums, San Francisco, California

1995 “Concept in Form: Artists’ Sketchbooks and Maquettes,” Palo Alto Cultural Center, Palo Alto, California

1995 “Light Interpretations,” The Jewish Museum, San Francisco, California

1988 “Bay Area Sculpture: Metal, Stone, Wood,” Palo Alto, Cultural Center, Palo Alto, California

1983 “Contemporary Expressions,” San Jose Institute of Contemporary Art, San Jose, California

1983 “Pacific Currents,” San Jose Museum of Art, San Jose, California

1980 “American Porcelain: New Directions in an Ancient Art,” Renwick Gallery, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C.

Selected Private Commissions

2005. 2006 Neiman Marcus, San Francisco and Beverly Hills, California
Commissioned sculpture for permanent contemporary art collection. Art adviser: Dorothy Goldeen Art Advisory, Los Angeles, California.

2002 Dorros Family Residence, Jackson Hole, Wyoming
Integrated sculptural environment with granite focal sculptures and table.

2000 Napa Family Vineyard, St. Helena, California
Seven Stones - large granite abstract sculpture and environment based on fragmented and re-assembled Italian ruins.

1999 Tillotson Collection, Sandy, Utah
Integrated environment of focal sculpture, stone seating, stone table.

1998 Gerald Peters Gallery, Santa Fe, New Mexico
Sculptural seating for new gallery courtyard.

1996 Seiler Collection, Atherton, California
Stacked Column - 12'H granite sculpture

1994 Staglin Family Vineyard, Rutherford, California
Harvest Table - 18'L granite table for vineyard

1993 George and Dorothy Saxe Collection, Menlo Park, California
Passage - 8' granite, terrazzo and marble sculpture

1992 Richard and Rhoda Goldman Collection, Atherton, California
Harvest Table - 5' h. slate table

1990 Private Collection, Nashville, Tennessee
Solstice - an environmental sculpture and seating of slate based on the workings of an ancient sundial. Central sculpture: 12' H x 45" W x 12" D.

Museum Collections

Henry Art Gallery, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington

M.H. de Young Memorial Museum, San Francisco, California

Oakland Museum of California, Oakland, California

Renwick Gallery, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C.

Bibliography

Art in America, “Public Art ’08 Review:” Richard Deutsch Time Signature, San Francisco, (Annual Guide 2009)

Museum of Art and History, Santa Cruz, California: Richard Deutsch Sculpture. 2001. 88 page Exhibition Catalog with essay Richard Deutsch by Bruce Guenther

Blasier, Paula. Voyage: From Ship's Propeller to Sculpture. Oakland, Calif.: Bramalea Pacific, 1991. Includes a photo essay by Terrence McCarthy.

Broadrup, Elizabeth. “Motion: Wall Relief at Port of Oakland.” Sculpture Magazine (November/December 1990).

Burgard, Timothy Anglin. The Art of Craft: Contemporary Works from the Saxe Collection, Exh. Cat. San Francisco: The Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco; Boston: Bulfinch Press/Little, Brown, 1999.

Clifton, Leann. “Am Oakland Odyssey.” Artweek (29 January 1992).

Fuhrman, Janice. “A Napa Family Vineyard.” California Homes Magazine (October 2000). Article about the Staglin Family Vineyard art collection.

“Harvest.” Sculpture Magazine (July/August 1995). Article on Deutsch’s commission for the Oakland Museum of California.

Indyke Dottie. “Grabbing Emotions.” Sculpture Magazine (March 2007) Feature Article.

Mayer, Barbara. “Dream House for a Dream Collection.” Art and Antiques (April 2000). Article about the Wornick family art collection.

Misrach, Miriam Weisang. “Ideas Beneath the Surface: Richard Deutsch.” The Museum of California (magazine of the Oakland Museum of California) (Winter 1993).

Narain, R. Kamna, “Public Art.” The Business Journal (October 1998). Article describing Deutsch's project for Oakmead West in Sunnyvale, California.

Suter, P. “Integrating Art into Development.” Urban Land Magazine (September 1991).