Tony May
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- Visual Arts
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Tony May, Emeritus Professor of Art, taught at San Jose State from 1967-2005.
Working in a variety of media, May’s art has often taken the form of site-responsive installations and has a strong leaning toward the conceptual, the quasi-functional and the whimsical. He believes in the importance of craftsmanship and hands-on involvement of the artist. Projects such as his building the idiosyncratic structure, the T. House and subsequent production of a series of photo-real paintings documenting selected aspects of that construction process reveal much about his belief in the importance of work itself as well as in the reflection upon it.
His art has been shown widely in California including shows at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco Art Institute, 80 Langton Street, Capp Street Project, San Jose Museum of Art, and was the subject of a 40 year retrospective exhibit at the San Jose Institute of Contemporary Art. He has also exhibited in other parts of the United States, England, France, Japan and Thailand. More recently he has had solo shows at b.Sakata Garo Gallery in Sacramento CA and at George Adams Gallery in New York City which continues to represent his work.