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Mel Edwards (born 1937)〔 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.〔(Biography ), Melvin Edwards website.〕 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.〔Samella S. Lewis, ''African American Art and Artists'', University of California Press, 2003, p. 210. ISBN 0-520-23935-0〕 ==Life== Melvin Eugene Edwards, Jr., was born in Houston, Texas, the eldest of his parents' four children.〔("Retrospective" ), Melvin Edwards website.〕 Edwards is a graduate of the University of Southern California〔 and also studied at Los Angeles City College, and the Los Angeles County Art Institute. In 1964, he began teaching at San Bernardino Valley College. He went on to teach at the Chouinard Art Institute〔(YouTube Video, "Mel Edwards (Part 1)" ).〕 (now the California Institute of the Arts), the Orange County Community College in New York, and the University of Connecticut. His first one-person exhibition was held at the Santa Barbara Museum of Art, Santa Barbara, California, in 1965. In 1972 he began teaching at Rutgers University, where he taught classes in sculpture, drawing and Third World artists until his retirement from the school in 2002. In 1975 he was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship.〔(Fellows ), The John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation.〕 In 1976, Edwards married the poet Jayne Cortez.〔''Encyclopedia of African American Women Writers'', vol. 1, p. 121.〕 Edwards' research into Third World visual culture has taken him to Morocco, Brazil, China, Cuba, and Nigeria. Inspiration for Edwards comes from his ancestral home, Africa, where he currently spends several months each year working as a sculptor in Senegal. He is a resident of New York City, and is represented by Alexander Gray Associates, a contemporary art gallery located in New York City. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Mel Edwards」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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