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Born 1951 Hartford, Connecticut. Known for: Non objective, abstract photography and photograms, conceptualism, teaching.
James Welling (born 1951 in Hartford, Connecticut) is a post modern artist*. He earned both a BFA and an MFA at California Institute of the Arts in Valencia, California, where he studied with, among... Read full biography
James Welling (born 1951 in Hartford, Connecticut) is a post modern artist*. He earned both a BFA and an MFA at California Institute of the Arts in Valencia, California, where he studied with, among others, Dan Graham. He emerged in the 1970s as a post conceptual* artist for whom photographic norms... Read full biography
James Welling (born 1951 in Hartford, Connecticut) is a post modern artist*. He earned both a BFA and an MFA at California Institute of the Arts in Valencia, California, where he studied with, among others, Dan Graham. He emerged in the 1970s as a post conceptual* artist for whom photographic norms and the representational" field itself were and remain contested and problematized. Welling lives and works in Los Angeles. During his career, Welling has experimented with different photographic... Read full biography
James Welling (born 1951 in Hartford, Connecticut) is a post modern artist*. He earned both a BFA and an MFA at California Institute of the Arts in Valencia, California, where he studied with, among others, Dan Graham. He emerged in the 1970s as a post conceptual* artist for whom photographic norms and the representational" field itself were and remain contested and problematized. Welling lives and works in Los Angeles. During his career, Welling has experimented with different photographic mediums, including Polaroids, gelatin silver prints, photograms and digital prints. Having studied under John Baldessari at CalArts and exhibited with Sherrie Levine at Metro Pictures, Welling began his career in the so-called Pictures Generation. His... Read full biography
James Welling (born 1951 in Hartford, Connecticut) is a post modern artist*. He earned both a BFA and an MFA at California Institute of the Arts in Valencia, California, where he studied with, among others, Dan Graham. He emerged in the 1970s as a post conceptual* artist for whom photographic norms and the representational" field itself were and remain contested and problematized. Welling lives and works in Los Angeles. During his career, Welling has experimented with different photographic mediums, including Polaroids, gelatin silver prints, photograms and digital prints. Having studied under John Baldessari at CalArts and exhibited with Sherrie Levine at Metro Pictures, Welling began his career in the so-called Pictures Generation. His self-education in photography began in 1976 with the series Los Angeles Architecture & Portraits. In 1977 his second series,... Read full biography
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James Welling (born 1951 in Hartford, Connecticut) is a post modern artist*. He earned both a BFA and an MFA at California Institute of the Arts in Valencia, California, where he studied with, among others, Dan Graham. He emerged in the 1970s as a post conceptual* artist for whom photographic norms and the representational" field itself were and remain contested and problematized. Welling lives and works in Los Angeles.
During his career, Welling has experimented with different photographic mediums, including Polaroids, gelatin silver prints, photograms and digital prints.
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