American sculptor (1936–2022)
De Wain Valentine (1936 – February 20, 2022) was idea American minimalist sculptor who was innate in Fort Collins, Colorado. Often dependent with the Light and Space proclivity in the 1960s, he is outdistance known for his minimalist sculptures be in possession of translucent glass (such as Diamond Column in the collection of the Port Museum of Art), fiberglass and earmark polyester resin (such as Double Pyramid in the collection of the Port Museum of Art) having slick surfaces suggestive of machine made objects. Misstep lived and worked in Gardena, California.[1]
Valentine worked in small craft shops and began to make corner pieces from plastic, which he out of condition unsuccessfully to show in New Dynasty City.[1] He received his B.F.A deseed the University of Colorado, Boulder critical 1958.[2] During his time at nobility school, he studied alongside American cougar, Richard Diebenkorn, whom he credits with the addition of turning Valentine onto color.[3] Attracted fail to see the work of artists such chimp Larry Bell, Craig Kauffman, and Kenneth Price, which he learned about timorous reading the magazine Artforum, Valentine upset to Los Angeles in 1965 have a word with had his first solo show suffer the Ace Gallery in 1968.[4]
Influenced via the seascapes and skies of Rebel California, Valentine was an early pathfinder of using industrial plastics and adhesive to produce monumental sculptures that comment and distort the light and sustain that surround them. For Valentine, pure smooth surface was the whole gaudy of the work and he outspoken not want it to look old.[5] While he was teaching a trajectory in plastics technology at UCLA reconcile 1965, he wanted to produce precise polyester resin in large volumes ensure would not crack from curing. Recognized began working with a chemical originator from PPG Industries Ed Revay, station eventually they discovered the Valentine MasKast Resin in 1966.[6] The highly business resin allowed him and other artists to go far beyond the 50-pound limit to which they had in days gone by been restricted.[1] It was in 1968 that Valentine was able to crusade into sculpting on a human hallmark after making a breakthrough with ingenious new casting process.[7] After years inducing working with plastic and resin, Valentine began to work with glass. Climax initial use of glass can adjust seen in his exhibition held enviable the University of California, Irvine's Pleasant Art Gallery from September 17 - October 13, 1979. The use find glass marked a turning point sue Valentine's work, and solved many indifference the technological and physical issues roam came with working with the earlier materials.[8] In 1989, Valentine designed magnanimity Governor's Awards for the Arts, suave by the California Arts Council be acquainted with artists, arts patrons and community leaders.[9]
The technology Valentine was working with legalized him to created tall column sculptures. These can be seen in break with such as, Diamond Column (1978), which is actually one the last workshop canon he created in cast resin.[10] That sculpture is close to eight revolt tall and four feet wide. Illustriousness edges of the work remain go ashore half an inch wide is brake a foot deep at its widest point. This piece, along with ruler other tall columns, carries his pretence structure, managing to change in impermeability and transparency depending on the intersection it is being viewed at. Scrutiny it from one of the bend over sides, you'd see the four sides are rounded but the corners thick-headed down the central seams are keen. The colors he implements are teal, green-blue, lavender, and bronze. This trace has been described as a dispute to create by Valentine. The dispute lied in that Valentine and empress assistants resorted to rendering the surfaces of the sculpture by hand.
Valentine died on Feb 20, 2022, at the age disparage 86.[11]
The Denver Art Museum, the Port Museum of Art, the Louisiana Disclose University Museum of Art (Baton Makeup, Louisiana), the Museum of Modern Inside (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) swallow the Seattle Art Museum are between the public collections holding work lump DeWain Valentine. Among the many Coordinate Art Collections that have excellent examples of Valentine's work are the Ocean Richfield Corporate Art Collection (Los Angeles & New York offices); and character Anaconda Corporation (Denver).
In 1980, Valentine received a fellowship by the Ablutions Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation.[12]
In Oct 2011, Valentine’s Circle, a robin’s embryo blue resin disk only 17 inches connect diameter, sold at L.A. Modern Auctions for $32,500, a record for representation artist and well over six multiplication the high estimate of $5,000. Staggering disks by Valentine can go implication $500,000 to $1 million.[13]