James Welling
James Welling (* 1951 in Hartford , Connecticut ) is an American photographer .
life and work
From 1969 to 1971 Welling studied at Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh with Gandy Brodie , John Stevenson, Connie Fox and Robert Tharsing. He moved to the California Institute of the Arts and continued his studies with Wolfgang Stoerchle and John Baldessari until his master's (1971) . There he met Dan Graham , William Wegman and Joan Jonas , among others . Other close friends at Cal Arts included Marcia Resnick, Suzanne Lacy, David Salle and Matt Mullican . From 1995 to 2016, Welling was Head of Photography at the University of California, Los Angeles, and has been Visiting Professor of Photography at Princeton University since 2012 .
Welling works with various photographic materials, with Polaroids , Gelatin Silver Prints, photograms and digital prints .
Glass House (2009) is a well-known series by Welling. Over a period of three years he used color filters to photograph Philip Johnson's Glass House .
In 2014 Welling received the Infinity Award from the International Center of Photography , New York and in 2016 the Julius Shulman Institute Excellence Prize for Photography.
Exhibitions (selection)
Solo exhibitions
- 1989 Troy Brown Cloth , Matt Mullican , James Welling Kent Fine Art , New York City, NY
- 1990 James Welling, photographs 1977–90 , Kunsthalle Bern , Bern
- 1994 James Welling-Photographs From The 1990's Galerie Paul Andriesse, Amsterdam
- 1996 James Welling: Calais Lace Factories Camden Arts Center , London
- 1998 James Welling-Light Sources Kunstmuseum Luzern , Luzern
- 1999 James Welling-New Abstractions Sprengel Museum Hannover , Hannover
- 2013 James Welling autograph, Fotomuseum Winterthur , Winterthur
Group exhibitions
- 1992 documenta IX , Kassel
- 1995 Album: The photographic collection of Museum Boijmans-van Beuningen Rotterdam , Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen , Rotterdam
- 1997 Heaven-MoMA PS1 , New York City
- 1998 Veronica's Revenge Deichtorhallen , Hamburg
- 1996 Prospect 96: Photography in Contemporary Art Frankfurter Kunstverein , Frankfurt / Main
- 2005 Recent Acquisitions - From the Grunwald Center Armand Hammer Museum of Art , Los Angeles
- 2006 The 1980s-a topology Museu de Arte Contemporânea , Porto
- 2008 Photography on Photography: Reflections on the Medium since 1960 Metropolitan Museum of Art , New York City
- 2008 Whitney Biennial , Whitney Museum of American Art , New York City
- 2009 The Pictures Generation, 1974–1984 The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City
- 2009 Sonic Youth etc .: sensational fix Kunsthalle Düsseldorf , Dusseldorf
- 2010 Manhattan, uso mixto. Fotografía y otras prácticas artísticas desde 1970 al presente Museo Reina Sofía , Madrid
- 2010 Outside the Box. Edition Jacob Samuel, 1988-2010 , UCLA Hammer Museum, Los Angeles
- 2011 Signs of a Struggle: Photography in the Wake of Postmodernism Victoria and Albert Museum , London
- 2012 Zauberspiegel: The collection after 1945 Kunsthalle Bremen , Bremen
- 2012 Photography Total Works From The Collection Of The Mmk Museum For Modern Art , Frankfurt am Main
- 2013 Abstract Generation: Now in Print , Museum of Modern Art, New York City
- 2014 Convergences: Selected Photographs from the Permanent Collection , Getty Center , Los Angeles
- 2015 Collected by Thea Westreich Wagner and Ethan Wagner , Whitney Museum of American Art, New York City
- 2015 Qu'est-ce que la photographie? , Center Georges-Pompidou , Paris
- 2016 Wolfsburg Unlimited-One city as a world laboratory Wolfsburg Art Museum , Wolfsburg
Works
- James Welling: Flowers , by Denise Bratton, Lynne Tillman, James Welling, David Zwirner (June 2007) ISBN 978-0-97691-3-689
- Light Sources 1992-2005 by James Welling (English), Steidl; Edition: 1 (October 1, 2009) ISBN 978-3-86521-8-599
- James Welling: Glass House (English) Damiani (Visual Books); Edition: 1st (April 30, 2011) ISBN 978-8-86208-1-610
- James Welling: The Mind on Fire by Jan Tumlir, Jane McFadden, Anthony Spira (English, Spanish), Prestel; Edition: Bilingual (January 20, 2014) ISBN 978-3-79135-3-661
- James Welling: Monograph by James Welling , Eva Respini, Mark Godfrey, (English), Aperture; Edition: 01 (March 4, 2013) ISBN 978-1-59711-2-093
Web links
- James Welling at Discogs (English)
- James Welling at artfacts.net
- James Welling website
Individual evidence
- ↑ Documenta IX: Kassel, June 13–20. September 1992 - Catalog in three volumes, Volume 1, Stuttgart 1992, ISBN 3-89322-380-0 , p. 234.
- ↑ Guggenheim James Welling accessed on December 31, 2016 (English)
- ↑ David Zwirner James Welling accessed on December 31, 2016 (English)
- ↑ Whitney museum James Welling accessed on December 31, 2016 (English)
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Welling, James |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American photographer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1951 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Hartford , Connecticut , United States |