Augusta Stylianou Gallery

DeWain Valentine is an American minimalist sculptor who was born in Fort Collins, Colorado in 1936. He is best known for his translucent glass, fiberglass and cast polyester resin sculptures having slick surfaces suggestive of machine made objects.

The Contemporary Museum, Honolulu, the Denver Art Museum, the Louisiana State University Museum of Art (Baton Rouge, Louisiana), 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.

Triple disk Red Metal Flake - Black Edge, 1966

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).

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.


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