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
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 - )

Submitted
on July 23, 2013

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