33 Bartlett Street, San Francisco, CA 94110
(415) 641 8100 info@jerrybarrish.com
Open by appointment
Artist Statement
I collect found objects for assemblage/constructions on the beaches, bayshore, roadways, and recycling centers near San Francisco. I usually only pick up plastic objects—belonging to the lowest caste in the hierarchy of debris. I have become enthralled working with this material, and continue to be inspired by it, using a hot glue gun almost like a welding torch—allowing a spontaneity reminiscent of my experiences with copper and steel almost 50 years ago.
Sometimes I set out to make an image and actually search for the pieces to complete the idea, but more often it's the found object that dictates what I'm going to do. The completion of the preconceived vision is a much more structured way to work and gives me a sense of command over the materials. But inspiration and freedom come from letting this discarded stuff of our society provide the image itself.
My natural bent as a storyteller becomes obvious with the figurative nature of subjects. There's a sense of magic when a piece is completed—sometimes I don't understand how it happened. But, not unlike the editing process from my filmmaking days, it's just a question of the order of things.
Capturing gesture, form, and movement to bring life to this refuse is the essence of my art.
– Jerry Ross Barrish, San Francisco, 2023
Chronology
Residence: Pacifica, California
Born: San Francisco, California
Education: San Francisco Art Institute, B.F.A. 1974 & M.F.A. 1976
Additional Study: Apprentice to sculptor, Charles B. Johnson, 1969-70
Institutional Collections
Berkeley Art Museum/Pacific Film Archive, University of California, Berkeley, California
Crocker Art Museum, Sacramento, California
de Saisset Museum, University of Santa Clara, Santa Clara, California
di Rosa Preserve: Art & Nature, Napa, California
Fresno Art Museum, Fresno, California
Museum of Art & History @ McPherson Center, Santa Cruz, California
The Oakland Museum of California, Oakland, California
San Jose Museum of Art, San Jose, California
South Dakota Art Museum, Brookings, South Dakota
Triton Museum of Art, Santa Clara, California
University of Arizona Memorial Student Union, Tucson, Arizona
University of California Davis, Nelson Gallery, Davis, California
University of California Santa Cruz, Eloise Pickard Smith Gallery, Santa Cruz, California
Public Art Commission
2015 San Francisco, California. "Bay View Horn," The San Francisco Shipyard, Public Art Walk, bronze, 15-feet.
Commissioned by San Francisco Redevelopment Agency (OCII.)
Selected Solo Sculpture Exhibitions
Selected Group Sculpture Exhibitions
2023 The deYoung Open 2023, San Francisco, California
2023 Epperson Gallery, Crockett, California, "Artists/Curators"
2023 The Randall Museum, San Francisco, California, "Cumulative View" with Ellen Little and Tiffany Schmierer
2022 Ruth's Table, San Francisco, California, "A World Without Plastic Imagined"
2022 De Young Museum, San Francisco, California, "Pictures of People" (virtual)
2021 International Sculpture Center, Kaneko, Omaha, Nebraska, "Little Sculpture Show"
2021 Gear Box Gallery, Oakland, California, "Posies: a Pocketful"
2020 South Dakota Art Museum, "50 Works for 50 Years: Collections Retrospective"
2020 San Jose Museum of Quilts & Textiles, "Under Our Covers: It's Not What It Seams"
2019 Veterans Show, "Honoring America's Veterans at TPG Global" curated by SFMOMA Artists Gallery
2019 Alumni Show, San Francisco Art Institute, San Francisco, California, "ECHOES, From Here to There"
2018 Pacific Rim Sculptors, Peninsula Museum of Art, Burlingame, California, "Sculpture Now"
2017 San Luis Obispo Museum of Art, "California Sculpture Slam Biennial Exhibition"
2015 Studio Gallery, San Francisco, California
2013 Ruth Bancroft Gardens, Walnut Creek, California "Sculpture in the Gardens"
2006 Santa Cruz County Bank, Santa Cruz, California, “Unleased”
2006 Thomas Mann Gallery, New Orleans, Louisiana, “Martini Squared 2”
2006 Arizona Museum for Youth, Mesa, Arizona, “Purrrfection”
2005 Triton Museum of Art, Santa Clara, California, “Nature as Muse, Selections from the Permanent Collection”
2005 George Krevsky Gallery, San Francisco, “Sculpture”
2005 Museum of Contemporary Art, Santa Rosa, California, “Contemporary Expressions, RE-FUSED”,
2003 San Francisco Museum of Modern Art Artists Gallery, Fort Mason, San Francisco, “25th Anniversary Exhibition”
2003 Oakland Museum City Center Sculpture Court, Pacific Rim Sculpture Group Invitational, “Shaping Possibilities”
2003 d.p. Fong Galleries, San Jose, California, “The Narrative Figure”
2002 San Jose Museum of Art, “Is the Medium the Message? Contemporary Art from Permanent Collection”
2002 Center for Contemporary Art, Sacramento, California, “A Portrait of My Father”
2001 Mesh Gallery, Sebastopol, California, “Trash”
2000 University of California Santa Cruz, Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, “The New Millennium Readymade, Even”
2000 Euphrat Museum of Art, De Anza College, Cupertino, California, “Animals”
2000 Koret Gallery, Palo Alto, California, “Environmental Perspectives: Beauty & the Beast”
1999 University Art Museum, Berkeley, California, “Fragments of the World, From Collage to Readymade”
1999 Zenith Gallery, Washington DC, group humor show
1999 di Rosa Preserve, Napa, California, “Angels & Apparitions: Masque for Millennium”
1998 Arizona Museum for Youth, Mesa, Arizona, "Stable Environment, Art of the Horse"
1998 Melting Point, San Francisco, California, "Ensemble Modern: Barrish, Forakis, Honig”
1998 d.p. Fong Galleries, San Jose, California, "Toys in Contemporary Art II”
1997 The Jewish Museum San Francisco, "L'Chaim: A Kiddish Cup Invitational"
1997 Oakland Museum of California, Oakland, California, "Hello Again! A New Wave of Recycled Art & Design"
1997 (traveling) Los Angeles Municipal Gallery, Barnsdall Park, Los Angeles, California
1997 (traveling) McAllen International Museum, McAllen, Texas
1998 (traveling) Vancouver Museum, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
1996 Oakland Museum of California Sculpture Court, "Bay Area Sculptors Group: The Figure," Oakland, California
1996 San Francisco Museum of Modern Art Rental Gallery, "Refound," Fort Mason, San Francisco, California
1996 Oakland Museum of California Sculpture Court, Oakland, California "Re-in-CAR-Nation"
1996 State Capitol Conservation Fair, Sacramento, California, Recycled Art Exhibit
1995 Galeria Mesa, Mesa, Arizona, "Reassembly Required"
1995 Contract Design Center, San Francisco, Calif., Pacific Rim Sculpture Group Juried Exhibit
1995 State Capitol Conservation Fair, Sacramento, California, Recycled Art Exhibit
1994 Capp Street Project, San Francisco, California"Old Glory, New Story: Flagging the 21st Century"
1994 (traveling) Santa Monica Museum of Art, Santa Monica, California
1994 Works/San Jose, California, "Dancing on the Continuum: Survey of Bay Area Contemporary Sculpture"
1994 Claudia Chapline Gallery, Stinson Beach, California, "Jazz: JoeSam, George Frayne, Jerry Barrish"
1994 Bolinas Museum, Bolinas, California, Miniature Invitational
1993 Crocker Art Museum, Sacramento, California, “68th Annual Crocker-Kingsley Exhibition”
1993 Associated Artists of Winston-Salem, Winston-Salem, North Carolina, "Earth Art”
1993 San Mateo County Arts Council, Belmont, California, "Assemblage & Collage"
1993 Wiseman Gallery, Rogue Community College, Grants Pass, Oregon, “Barrish & Shuey"
1993 Lewis-Clark Center for Arts & History, Lewiston, Idaho, "Earth Vision"
1992 Arizona Museum for Youth, Mesa, Arizona, "Déjà Vu: The Recycled Object in Art"
1992 California Museum of Art, Santa Rosa, California, "California Small Works"
1992 Long Beach Arts, Long Beach, California, "Found Object as Art"
1992 The University of Arizona, Student Union Gallery, Tucson, Arizona, "Earth Day"
1992 Arizona State University, Memorial Union Fine Arts Lounge, Tempe, AZ, "Transformations: Barrish & Grossman"
1992 Modesto Jr. College Art Gallery, Modesto, California, "Wolfe, Norman & Barrish"
1992 Grants Pass Museum of Art, Grants Pass, Oregon, "Barrish & Totman"
1991 Bolinas Museum, Bolinas, California, Miniature Invitational
1991 Ohio State University at Mansfield, The Pearl Conard Gallery, Mansfield, Ohio
1991 Florida State University, Tallahassee, Florida, “The Florida National”
1991 The Jewish Community Museum, San Francisco, California, Purim Invitational
1990 Bolinas Museum, Bolinas, California, Small Works Annual Juried Exhibition
1990 San Jose Institute of Contemporary Art, San Jose, California
1990 Gallery Route One, Pt. Reyes Station, California, "Artists & Environmental Crisis"
1989 California Museum of Art, Santa Rosa, California, "California Small Works"
1989 The Arts Council of San Mateo County, Belmont, California, "Bay Arts"
1989 San Francisco City Hall Rotunda, San Francisco, California, "The Art of Recycling"
Sculpture Awards
2002 Argus Leader, Sioux Falls, South Dakota, in Review, High Points: “Dames” exhibit at South Dakota Art Museum, Brookings, South Dakota
2000 Third Place Award, UC Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz, California, “The New Millennium Readymade, Even”
1999 Honorable Mention, Arts on Fire III, Sanchez Art Center, Pacifica, California
1993 Group Show Award, Art Bank, Foster City Art Gallery, Foster City, California
1993 Honorable Mention, Coastal Arts League Annual Juried Competition, Half Moon Bay, California
1989 Award Winner, "California Small Works," California Museum of Art, Luther Burbank Center, Santa Rosa, CA
Selected Lectures and Guest Presentations
2021 International Sculpture Center, Vimeo, Conversation with Jerry Barrish and LynnVerschoor,
former Director of South Dakota Art Museum, Brookings, South Dakota
2020 Osher Lifelong Learning Institute with San Francisco State University, "Plastic Man," online mini-course
2019 Works & Conversation. Richard Whittaker. A Conversation with Jerry Barrish: Persistence
2006 Eye on the Arts, That Man May See, de Young Museum, San Francisco, California
2006 Lincoln High School Alumni Wall of Fame, San Francisco, California
2004-present Artistic Director, Sanchez Art Center, Pacifica, California
2003-2005 President, Art Guild of Pacifica, Pacifica, California
2002-2005 Cultural Arts Commission, City of Pacifica, California
2002 Guest Lecturer, Art Department, South Dakota State University, Brookings, South Dakota
1998 Juror, Coastal Arts League 14th Annual Juried Competition, Half Moon Bay, California
1995 Juror, "New & Reused," San Francisco Women's Gallery, San Francisco
1990 Guest Lecturer, "Art & Artists of San Francisco," San Francisco State University, San Francisco
Catalogs available
Jerry Ross Barrish: Protagonist. M. Stark Gallery, Half Moon Bay, California. Essays by Paris Cotz, MA and Marianna Stark, January 2023 - March 2023
Jerry Ross Barrish, Assemblage Found Objects. Loveland Museum/Gallery & South Dakota Art Museum, June 2014 - February 2015.
Art Drecko: Mad Asssemblage of Jerry Ross Barrish, Fresno Art Museum & Take Two: Jerry Ross Barrish, Museum of Art & History @ McPherson Center, Santa Cruz, CA, November 2008 - April 2009. Foreward by Phil Linhares, with essays by Susan Hillhouse, Jacquelin Pilar.
Dames. South Dakota Art Museum, 2002. Foreward by Fred Martin, San Francisco Art Institute
Selected Bibliography
Corbin, Mary. "Plastic Man speaks: A moment with sculpture artist Jerry Barrish." 48 Hills, June 15, 2023, illus.
Marcus, Naomi. "Jerry Barrish had a knack for rustling..." San Francisco Senior Beat, March 17, 2023, illus.
Cotz, Paris. "Junk is a Dirty Word." M. Stark Gallery, First Edition, 2023, p. 8, illus.
Held, John Jr. Review: "Jerry Barrish: Fabricating Human Interaction." SFAQ, March 10, 2016, illus.
Cheng, DeWitt. Review: "Jerry Ross Barrish, Santa Cruz and Fresno, California." Sculpture, September 2009, publication of International Sculpture Center, illus.
Grande, John K. Review: "Jerry Barrish, Schwerin, Germany." Sculpture, March 2008, publication of International Sculpture Center, illus.
Constantinou, Marianne. “After career springing others, bondsman sculpts himself a new life.” San Francisco Chronicle, November 23, 2004, illus.
Roukes, Nicholas. Artful Jesters, Innovators of Visual Wit and Humor. Ten Speed Press, Berkeley, CA, 2003, illus.
Roche, Harry. “Focus: Jerry Ross Barrish.” Sculpture, a publication of International Sculpture Center, May 2001, illus.
Shreve, Jenn. “One Man’s Treasure.” San Francisco Metropolitan, September 13, 1999.
Roche, Harry. "Jerry Ross Barrish." San Francisco Bay Guardian, September 2-8, 1998, illus.
Workman, Bill. "Picking Up Where Litterers Leave Off." San Francisco Chronicle Peninsula, March 14, 1997, illus.
Hunter, Chris. "Finding art in flotsam." Pacifica Tribune, January 29, 1997, illus.
Huston, Johnny Ray. "Body Parts." SF Weekly, San Francisco, January 3-9, 1996, illus.
Warner, Sally. Making Room for Making Art. Chicago: Chicago Review Press, 1994, illus.
Cohn, Terri. "The Gluers." Diablo Arts, Walnut Creek, March-May, 1994, illus.
Alaks, Kathleen. "This Art‘s a Real Find." Daily Courier, Grants Pass, OR, January 9, 1992, illus.
Hunter, Chris. "Barrish Recycles Trash into Art." Pacifica Tribune, December 5, 1990, illus.
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33 Bartlett Street, San Francisco, CA 94110
(415) 641 8100 info@jerrybarrish.com
Open by appointment
Artist Statement
I collect found objects for assemblage/constructions on the beaches, bayshore, roadways, and recycling centers near San Francisco. I usually only pick up plastic objects—belonging to the lowest caste in the hierarchy of debris. I have become enthralled working with this material, and continue to be inspired by it, using a hot glue gun almost like a welding torch—allowing a spontaneity reminiscent of my experiences with copper and steel almost 50 years ago.
Sometimes I set out to make an image and actually search for the pieces to complete the idea, but more often it's the found object that dictates what I'm going to do. The completion of the preconceived vision is a much more structured way to work and gives me a sense of command over the materials. But inspiration and freedom come from letting this discarded stuff of our society provide the image itself.
My natural bent as a storyteller becomes obvious with the figurative nature of subjects. There's a sense of magic when a piece is completed—sometimes I don't understand how it happened. But, not unlike the editing process from my filmmaking days, it's just a question of the order of things.
Capturing gesture, form, and movement to bring life to this refuse is the essence of my art.
– Jerry Ross Barrish, San Francisco, 2023
Chronology
Residence: Pacifica, California
Born: San Francisco, California
Education: San Francisco Art Institute, B.F.A. 1974 & M.F.A. 1976
Additional Study: Apprentice to sculptor, Charles B. Johnson, 1969-70
Institutional Collections
Berkeley Art Museum/Pacific Film Archive, University of California, Berkeley, California
Crocker Art Museum, Sacramento, California
de Saisset Museum, University of Santa Clara, Santa Clara, California
di Rosa Preserve: Art & Nature, Napa, California
Fresno Art Museum, Fresno, California
Museum of Art & History @ McPherson Center, Santa Cruz, California
The Oakland Museum of California, Oakland, California
San Jose Museum of Art, San Jose, California
South Dakota Art Museum, Brookings, South Dakota
Triton Museum of Art, Santa Clara, California
University of Arizona Memorial Student Union, Tucson, Arizona
University of California Davis, Nelson Gallery, Davis, California
University of California Santa Cruz, Eloise Pickard Smith Gallery, Santa Cruz, California
Public Art Commission
2015 San Francisco, California. "Bay View Horn," The San Francisco Shipyard, Public Art Walk, bronze, 15-feet.
Commissioned by San Francisco Redevelopment Agency (OCII.)
Selected Solo Sculpture Exhibitions
Selected Group Sculpture Exhibitions
2023 The deYoung Open 2023, San Francisco, California
2023 Epperson Gallery, Crockett, California, "Artists/Curators"
2023 The Randall Museum, San Francisco, California, "Cumulative View" with Ellen Little and Tiffany Schmierer
2022 Ruth's Table, San Francisco, California, "A World Without Plastic Imagined"
2022 De Young Museum, San Francisco, California, "Pictures of People" (virtual)
2021 International Sculpture Center, Kaneko, Omaha, Nebraska, "Little Sculpture Show"
2021 Gear Box Gallery, Oakland, California, "Posies: a Pocketful"
2020 South Dakota Art Museum, "50 Works for 50 Years: Collections Retrospective"
2020 San Jose Museum of Quilts & Textiles, "Under Our Covers: It's Not What It Seams"
2019 Veterans Show, "Honoring America's Veterans at TPG Global" curated by SFMOMA Artists Gallery
2019 Alumni Show, San Francisco Art Institute, San Francisco, California, "ECHOES, From Here to There"
2018 Pacific Rim Sculptors, Peninsula Museum of Art, Burlingame, California, "Sculpture Now"
2017 San Luis Obispo Museum of Art, "California Sculpture Slam Biennial Exhibition"
2015 Studio Gallery, San Francisco, California
2013 Ruth Bancroft Gardens, Walnut Creek, California "Sculpture in the Gardens"
2006 Santa Cruz County Bank, Santa Cruz, California, “Unleased”
2006 Thomas Mann Gallery, New Orleans, Louisiana, “Martini Squared 2”
2006 Arizona Museum for Youth, Mesa, Arizona, “Purrrfection”
2005 Triton Museum of Art, Santa Clara, California, “Nature as Muse, Selections from the Permanent Collection”
2005 George Krevsky Gallery, San Francisco, “Sculpture”
2005 Museum of Contemporary Art, Santa Rosa, California, “Contemporary Expressions, RE-FUSED”,
2003 San Francisco Museum of Modern Art Artists Gallery, Fort Mason, San Francisco, “25th Anniversary Exhibition”
2003 Oakland Museum City Center Sculpture Court, Pacific Rim Sculpture Group Invitational, “Shaping Possibilities”
2003 d.p. Fong Galleries, San Jose, California, “The Narrative Figure”
2002 San Jose Museum of Art, “Is the Medium the Message? Contemporary Art from Permanent Collection”
2002 Center for Contemporary Art, Sacramento, California, “A Portrait of My Father”
2001 Mesh Gallery, Sebastopol, California, “Trash”
2000 University of California Santa Cruz, Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, “The New Millennium Readymade, Even”
2000 Euphrat Museum of Art, De Anza College, Cupertino, California, “Animals”
2000 Koret Gallery, Palo Alto, California, “Environmental Perspectives: Beauty & the Beast”
1999 University Art Museum, Berkeley, California, “Fragments of the World, From Collage to Readymade”
1999 Zenith Gallery, Washington DC, group humor show
1999 di Rosa Preserve, Napa, California, “Angels & Apparitions: Masque for Millennium”
1998 Arizona Museum for Youth, Mesa, Arizona, "Stable Environment, Art of the Horse"
1998 Melting Point, San Francisco, California, "Ensemble Modern: Barrish, Forakis, Honig”
1998 d.p. Fong Galleries, San Jose, California, "Toys in Contemporary Art II”
1997 The Jewish Museum San Francisco, "L'Chaim: A Kiddish Cup Invitational"
1997 Oakland Museum of California, Oakland, California, "Hello Again! A New Wave of Recycled Art & Design"
1997 (traveling) Los Angeles Municipal Gallery, Barnsdall Park, Los Angeles, California
1997 (traveling) McAllen International Museum, McAllen, Texas
1998 (traveling) Vancouver Museum, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
1996 Oakland Museum of California Sculpture Court, "Bay Area Sculptors Group: The Figure," Oakland, California
1996 San Francisco Museum of Modern Art Rental Gallery, "Refound," Fort Mason, San Francisco, California
1996 Oakland Museum of California Sculpture Court, Oakland, California "Re-in-CAR-Nation"
1996 State Capitol Conservation Fair, Sacramento, California, Recycled Art Exhibit
1995 Galeria Mesa, Mesa, Arizona, "Reassembly Required"
1995 Contract Design Center, San Francisco, Calif., Pacific Rim Sculpture Group Juried Exhibit
1995 State Capitol Conservation Fair, Sacramento, California, Recycled Art Exhibit
1994 Capp Street Project, San Francisco, California"Old Glory, New Story: Flagging the 21st Century"
1994 (traveling) Santa Monica Museum of Art, Santa Monica, California
1994 Works/San Jose, California, "Dancing on the Continuum: Survey of Bay Area Contemporary Sculpture"
1994 Claudia Chapline Gallery, Stinson Beach, California, "Jazz: JoeSam, George Frayne, Jerry Barrish"
1994 Bolinas Museum, Bolinas, California, Miniature Invitational
1993 Crocker Art Museum, Sacramento, California, “68th Annual Crocker-Kingsley Exhibition”
1993 Associated Artists of Winston-Salem, Winston-Salem, North Carolina, "Earth Art”
1993 San Mateo County Arts Council, Belmont, California, "Assemblage & Collage"
1993 Wiseman Gallery, Rogue Community College, Grants Pass, Oregon, “Barrish & Shuey"
1993 Lewis-Clark Center for Arts & History, Lewiston, Idaho, "Earth Vision"
1992 Arizona Museum for Youth, Mesa, Arizona, "Déjà Vu: The Recycled Object in Art"
1992 California Museum of Art, Santa Rosa, California, "California Small Works"
1992 Long Beach Arts, Long Beach, California, "Found Object as Art"
1992 The University of Arizona, Student Union Gallery, Tucson, Arizona, "Earth Day"
1992 Arizona State University, Memorial Union Fine Arts Lounge, Tempe, AZ, "Transformations: Barrish & Grossman"
1992 Modesto Jr. College Art Gallery, Modesto, California, "Wolfe, Norman & Barrish"
1992 Grants Pass Museum of Art, Grants Pass, Oregon, "Barrish & Totman"
1991 Bolinas Museum, Bolinas, California, Miniature Invitational
1991 Ohio State University at Mansfield, The Pearl Conard Gallery, Mansfield, Ohio
1991 Florida State University, Tallahassee, Florida, “The Florida National”
1991 The Jewish Community Museum, San Francisco, California, Purim Invitational
1990 Bolinas Museum, Bolinas, California, Small Works Annual Juried Exhibition
1990 San Jose Institute of Contemporary Art, San Jose, California
1990 Gallery Route One, Pt. Reyes Station, California, "Artists & Environmental Crisis"
1989 California Museum of Art, Santa Rosa, California, "California Small Works"
1989 The Arts Council of San Mateo County, Belmont, California, "Bay Arts"
1989 San Francisco City Hall Rotunda, San Francisco, California, "The Art of Recycling"
Sculpture Awards
2002 Argus Leader, Sioux Falls, South Dakota, in Review, High Points: “Dames” exhibit at South Dakota Art Museum, Brookings, South Dakota
2000 Third Place Award, UC Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz, California, “The New Millennium Readymade, Even”
1999 Honorable Mention, Arts on Fire III, Sanchez Art Center, Pacifica, California
1993 Group Show Award, Art Bank, Foster City Art Gallery, Foster City, California
1993 Honorable Mention, Coastal Arts League Annual Juried Competition, Half Moon Bay, California
1989 Award Winner, "California Small Works," California Museum of Art, Luther Burbank Center, Santa Rosa, CA
Selected Lectures and Guest Presentations
2021 International Sculpture Center, Vimeo, Conversation with Jerry Barrish and LynnVerschoor,
former Director of South Dakota Art Museum, Brookings, South Dakota
2020 Osher Lifelong Learning Institute with San Francisco State University, "Plastic Man," online mini-course
2019 Works & Conversation. Richard Whittaker. A Conversation with Jerry Barrish: Persistence
2006 Eye on the Arts, That Man May See, de Young Museum, San Francisco, California
2006 Lincoln High School Alumni Wall of Fame, San Francisco, California
2004-present Artistic Director, Sanchez Art Center, Pacifica, California
2003-2005 President, Art Guild of Pacifica, Pacifica, California
2002-2005 Cultural Arts Commission, City of Pacifica, California
2002 Guest Lecturer, Art Department, South Dakota State University, Brookings, South Dakota
1998 Juror, Coastal Arts League 14th Annual Juried Competition, Half Moon Bay, California
1995 Juror, "New & Reused," San Francisco Women's Gallery, San Francisco
1990 Guest Lecturer, "Art & Artists of San Francisco," San Francisco State University, San Francisco
Catalogs available
Jerry Ross Barrish: Protagonist. M. Stark Gallery, Half Moon Bay, California. Essays by Paris Cotz, MA and Marianna Stark, January 2023 - March 2023
Jerry Ross Barrish, Assemblage Found Objects. Loveland Museum/Gallery & South Dakota Art Museum, June 2014 - February 2015.
Art Drecko: Mad Asssemblage of Jerry Ross Barrish, Fresno Art Museum & Take Two: Jerry Ross Barrish, Museum of Art & History @ McPherson Center, Santa Cruz, CA, November 2008 - April 2009. Foreward by Phil Linhares, with essays by Susan Hillhouse, Jacquelin Pilar.
Dames. South Dakota Art Museum, 2002. Foreward by Fred Martin, San Francisco Art Institute
Selected Bibliography
Corbin, Mary. "Plastic Man speaks: A moment with sculpture artist Jerry Barrish." 48 Hills, June 15, 2023, illus.
Marcus, Naomi. "Jerry Barrish had a knack for rustling..." San Francisco Senior Beat, March 17, 2023, illus.
Cotz, Paris. "Junk is a Dirty Word." M. Stark Gallery, First Edition, 2023, p. 8, illus.
Held, John Jr. Review: "Jerry Barrish: Fabricating Human Interaction." SFAQ, March 10, 2016, illus.
Cheng, DeWitt. Review: "Jerry Ross Barrish, Santa Cruz and Fresno, California." Sculpture, September 2009, publication of International Sculpture Center, illus.
Grande, John K. Review: "Jerry Barrish, Schwerin, Germany." Sculpture, March 2008, publication of International Sculpture Center, illus.
Constantinou, Marianne. “After career springing others, bondsman sculpts himself a new life.” San Francisco Chronicle, November 23, 2004, illus.
Roukes, Nicholas. Artful Jesters, Innovators of Visual Wit and Humor. Ten Speed Press, Berkeley, CA, 2003, illus.
Roche, Harry. “Focus: Jerry Ross Barrish.” Sculpture, a publication of International Sculpture Center, May 2001, illus.
Shreve, Jenn. “One Man’s Treasure.” San Francisco Metropolitan, September 13, 1999.
Roche, Harry. "Jerry Ross Barrish." San Francisco Bay Guardian, September 2-8, 1998, illus.
Workman, Bill. "Picking Up Where Litterers Leave Off." San Francisco Chronicle Peninsula, March 14, 1997, illus.
Hunter, Chris. "Finding art in flotsam." Pacifica Tribune, January 29, 1997, illus.
Huston, Johnny Ray. "Body Parts." SF Weekly, San Francisco, January 3-9, 1996, illus.
Warner, Sally. Making Room for Making Art. Chicago: Chicago Review Press, 1994, illus.
Cohn, Terri. "The Gluers." Diablo Arts, Walnut Creek, March-May, 1994, illus.
Alaks, Kathleen. "This Art‘s a Real Find." Daily Courier, Grants Pass, OR, January 9, 1992, illus.
Hunter, Chris. "Barrish Recycles Trash into Art." Pacifica Tribune, December 5, 1990, illus.
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