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1908 Waterford, Connecticut - 1993 Berkeley, California. Known for: Steel construction I-beam sculpture, furniture design, and teaching.
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A sculptor, designer, and teacher, James Prestini first gained attention with turned wood objects that he created in the 1930s and 1940s. These works were thin-walled vessels that were fine art but... Read full biography
A sculptor, designer, and teacher, James Prestini first gained attention with turned wood objects that he created in the 1930s and 1940s. These works were thin-walled vessels that were fine art but gave the appearance of having practical use. Prestini was trained as an engineer, from which he... Read full biography
A sculptor, designer, and teacher, James Prestini first gained attention with turned wood objects that he created in the 1930s and 1940s. These works were thin-walled vessels that were fine art but gave the appearance of having practical use. Prestini was trained as an engineer, from which he learned to get the most usage from his material, and with his vessels, this frugality pertained to a block of wood. He was also committed to the idea that art and technology were related entities in the... Read full biography
A sculptor, designer, and teacher, James Prestini first gained attention with turned wood objects that he created in the 1930s and 1940s. These works were thin-walled vessels that were fine art but gave the appearance of having practical use. Prestini was trained as an engineer, from which he learned to get the most usage from his material, and with his vessels, this frugality pertained to a block of wood. He was also committed to the idea that art and technology were related entities in the 20th century and that together science and machines could "create an art that truly resonates with mankind.". HIs later work was steel constructions composed of i-beams, H-beams, tubes, and channels and finely polished. They are geometric sculpture... Read full biography
A sculptor, designer, and teacher, James Prestini first gained attention with turned wood objects that he created in the 1930s and 1940s. These works were thin-walled vessels that were fine art but gave the appearance of having practical use. Prestini was trained as an engineer, from which he learned to get the most usage from his material, and with his vessels, this frugality pertained to a block of wood. He was also committed to the idea that art and technology were related entities in the 20th century and that together science and machines could "create an art that truly resonates with mankind.". HIs later work was steel constructions composed of i-beams, H-beams, tubes, and channels and finely polished. They are geometric sculpture rooted in that which is technological and industrial. Prestini was born in Waterford, Connecticut, and earned a BS Degree from Yale Un... Read full biography
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Keywords (28)
Art Method
- •Furniture and/or Cabinet Design and Making
- •Murals: Design, Painting, Fresco, Mosaic, Glass
- •Sculpture, Three Dimensional Forms, Sculptor
Art Media
Art Style
- •Abstraction, Abstract
- •Modernist, Modernism (Partially Abstract, Leading Edge)
Art Subject
- •Environment
- •Nature, Environment, Botanicals, Conservation
Geography/Places Lived and/or Worked
- •Italy
Art Teacher
- •Laszlo Moholy-Nagy
Art School
- •Black Mountain College, North Carolina, Teacher
- •Illinois Institute of Design and Technology, Teacher
- •Yale University School of Fine Art and Architecture, Student
Awards/Recognition
- •John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Fellowship
Chronology
- •Early 20th Century Before 1950
- •Late 20th Century After 1950
Added Description
- •Abstraction Specialty
- •Art Educator:Teaching, Scholarship, Workshops and/or Writing
Exhibition of Museum
- •Art Institute of Chicago
- •Museum of Modern Art, New York
- •Smithsonian Institution/Museums
- •Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum/Museum of Non Objective Painting