Mel Edwards
Visual Artist
1937 –
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Who is Mel Edwards?
Mel Edwards is an American sculptor, based in New York City. He has had more than a dozen one-person show exhibits and been in over four dozen group shows. He has had solo exhibitions at the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York City, the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, and the New Jersey State Museum, Trenton, New Jersey. His works, characterised by the use of straight-edged triangular and rectilinear forms, often have a political content.
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- Born
- May 4, 1937
Houston - Also known as
- Melvin Edwards
- Spouses
- Jayne Cortez
(1975 - 2012/12/28)
- Jayne Cortez
- Ethnicity
- African American
- Nationality
- United States of America
- Profession
- Education
- Bachelor of Fine Arts, University of Southern California
- Yale University
- Los Angeles City College
- Lived in
- New York City
(1967 - )
- New York City
Submitted
on July 23, 2013
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