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1936 Fort Collins, Colorado - 2022. Known for: Minimalist industrial material sculpture, resin, plastic and glass.
De Wain Valentine is an American minimalist* sculptor who was born in Fort Collins, Colorado in 1936. Often associated with the Light and Space movement in the 1960s, he is best known for his... Read full biography
De Wain Valentine is an American minimalist* sculptor who was born in Fort Collins, Colorado in 1936. Often associated with the Light and Space movement in the 1960s, he is best known for his translucent glass (such as Diamond Column in the collection of the Honolulu Museum of Art), fiberglass* and... Read full biography
De Wain Valentine is an American minimalist* sculptor who was born in Fort Collins, Colorado in 1936. Often associated with the Light and Space movement in the 1960s, he is best known for his translucent glass (such as Diamond Column in the collection of the Honolulu Museum of Art), fiberglass* and cast polyester resin* sculptures having slick surfaces suggestive of machine made objects. He lives and works in Gardena, California. Valentine worked in boat shops and began to make art pieces from... Read full biography
De Wain Valentine is an American minimalist* sculptor who was born in Fort Collins, Colorado in 1936. Often associated with the Light and Space movement in the 1960s, he is best known for his translucent glass (such as Diamond Column in the collection of the Honolulu Museum of Art), fiberglass* and cast polyester resin* sculptures having slick surfaces suggestive of machine made objects. He lives and works in Gardena, California. Valentine worked in boat shops and began to make art pieces from plastic, which he tried unsuccessfully to show in New York. Attracted by the work of artists such as Larry Bell, Craig Kauffman, and Kenneth Price, which he learned about by reading the magazine Artforum magazine, Valentine moved to Los Angeles in... Read full biography
De Wain Valentine is an American minimalist* sculptor who was born in Fort Collins, Colorado in 1936. Often associated with the Light and Space movement in the 1960s, he is best known for his translucent glass (such as Diamond Column in the collection of the Honolulu Museum of Art), fiberglass* and cast polyester resin* sculptures having slick surfaces suggestive of machine made objects. He lives and works in Gardena, California. Valentine worked in boat shops and began to make art pieces from plastic, which he tried unsuccessfully to show in New York. Attracted by the work of artists such as Larry Bell, Craig Kauffman, and Kenneth Price, which he learned about by reading the magazine Artforum magazine, Valentine moved to Los Angeles in 1965 and had his first solo show at Ace Gallery in 1968. Influenced by the seascapes and skies of Southern California, Valent... Read full biography
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De Wain Valentine is an American minimalist* sculptor who was born in Fort Collins, Colorado in 1936. Often associated with the Light and Space movement in the 1960s, he is best known for his translucent glass (such as Diamond Column in the collection of the Honolulu Museum of Art), fiberglass* and cast polyester resin* sculptures having slick surfaces suggestive of machine made objects. He lives and works in Gardena, California.
Valentine worked in boat shops and began to make art pieces from plastic, which he tried unsuccessfully to show in New York. Attracted by the work of artists such as Larry Bell, Craig Kauffman, and Kenneth Price, which he learned about by reading the magazine Artforum magazine, Valentine moved to Los Angeles in 1965 and had his first solo show at Ace Gallery in 1968.
Influenced by the seascapes and skies of Southern California, Valentine was an early pioneer of using industrial plastics and resin to produce monumental sculptures that reflect and distort the light and space that surround them. For Valentine, a smooth surface was the whole point of the work and he did not want it to look old. While he was teaching a course in plastics technology at UCLA in 1965, he wanted to produce a polyester resin in large volumes that would not crack from curing. He began working with a chemical engineer from PPG Industries Ed Revay, and eventually they discovered the Valentine MasKast Resin in 1966. The highly stable resin allowed him and other artists to go far beyond the 50-pound limit to which they had once been restricted. In 1989, Valentine designed the Governor's Awards for the Arts, presented by the California Arts Council to artists, arts patrons and community leaders.
The Denver Art Museum, the Honolulu Museum of Art, the Louisiana State University Museum of Art (Baton Rouge, Louisiana), the Museum of Modern Art (New York), the Norton Simon Museum (Pasadena), the Nora Eccles Harrison Museum of Art (Utah State University, Logan, Utah), and the San Diego Museum of Art (San Diego, California) are among the public collections holding work by DeWain Valentine. Among the many Corporate Art Collections that have excellent examples of Vantine's work are the Atlantic Richfield Corporate Art Collection (Los Angeles & New York offices); and the Anaconda Corporation (Denver).
In 1980, Valentine received a fellowship by the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation.[8]
References
• Edmonton Art Gallery, "An Exhibition of five recent works by Larry Bell, John McCracken, DeWain Valentine, Ron Cooper [and] Peter Alexander, Edmonton, Canada, Edmonton Art", 1971.
• Milwaukee Art Center, "Eight Artists: Lynda Benglis, Sam Gilliam, Ralph Goings, Hans Haacke, Duane Hanson, Sol LeWitt, DeWain Valentine, Richard Van Buren, Milwaukee, Milwaukee Art Center," 1971.
• Pasadena Art Museum, "DeWain Valentine: Recent Sculpture", Pasadena, Calif., Pasadena Art Museum, 1970.
• Valentine, DeWain, DeWain Valentine 1985, Honolulu, D. Valentine, 1985.
• Valentine, DeWain, DeWain Valentine, "An Exhibition Organized by the La Jolla Museum of Contemporary Art", La Jolla, Calif., La Jolla Museum of Contemporary Art, 1975.
• Erik Barnes and Daniel Desure (2011), "From Start to Finish: The Story of Gray Column", a 29-minute documentary film about the making and restoration of Valentine's art, screened at the Getty Center in 2011-2012 in conjunction with an exhibit of Valentine's art there and shown at the 2012 Newport Beach Film Festival.
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Wikipedia, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DeWain_Valentine (Accessed 01/20/2013)
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De Wain Valentine was born in Fort Collins, Colorado in 1936. Valentine studied at Yale School of Fine Art. For the past 30 years he has worked from his studio-home in Venice, California. He is best know for his translucent glass, fiberglass and cast polyester resin sculptures having slick surfaces suggestive of machine made objects.
Works held: Honolulu Contemporary Museum; San Diego Museum; Louisiana State University Museum; Harrison Museum at Utah State University.