Craig Kauffman

American West Coast painter and sculptor, who works mainly with acrylic and plastic. Born in Los Angeles. Studied at the University of Southern California School of Architecture 1950-2 and at the University of California at Los Angeles 1952-6. First one-man exhibition at the Felix Landau Gallery, Los Angeles, 1953. Travelled in Europe 1956-7, and later spent 1960-2 in Paris. Painted Abstract Expressionist pictures with biomorphic imagery, then began in 1963 to make reliefs of vacuum-formed clear plastic in luxuriant colours. Taught painting and sculpture at the University of California, Irvine, 1967-72. Founded in 1970 a Peripatetic Artists Guild with Robert Morris, announcing his availability for a wide range of commissions anywhere in the world. Lives in Laguna Beach, California.

Published in:
Ronald Alley, Catalogue of the Tate Gallery's Collection of Modern Art other than Works by British Artists, Tate Gallery and Sotheby Parke-Bernet, London 1981, p.381

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