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De Wain Valentine

De Wain Valentine (1936 - 2022) was active/lived in California, Colorado.  De Wain Valentine is known for Minimalist industrial material sculpture, resin, plastic and glass.

De Wain Valentine is an American minimalist* sculptor who was born in Fort Collins, Colorado in 1936. Often associated with the Light and Space movement in the 1960s, he is best known for his translucent glass (such as Diamond Column in the collection of the Honolulu Museum of Art), fiberglass* and cast polyester resin* sculptures having slick surfaces suggestive of machine made objects. He lives and works in Gardena, California.

Valentine worked in boat shops and began to make art pieces from plastic, which he tried unsuccessfully to show in New York. Attracted by the work of artists such as Larry Bell, Craig Kauffman, and Kenneth Price, which he learned about by reading the magazine Artforum magazine, Valentine moved to Los Angeles in 1965 and had his first solo show at Ace Gallery in 1968.

Influenced by the seascapes and skies of Southern California, Valentine was an early pioneer of using industrial plastics and resin to produce monumental sculptures tha   ...  [Displaying 1000 of 4542 characters.]  Artist bio

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.  There are 24 similar (related) artists for De Wain Valentine available:    Craig Kauffman,  Lynda Benglis,  Mary Ann Corse,  John Harvey McCracken,  Barry (Twist) McGee,  Frederick Hammersley,  Jay DeFeo,  John Altoon,  Wallace Berman,  Bruce Guldner Conner,  Kenny Scharf,  Carl Andre,  Robert Walter Irwin,  Lisa Yuskavage,  David Salle,  Billy Al Bengston,  George Herms,  Leon Golub,  John McLaughlin,  Karl Stanley Benjamin,  Kenneth Price,  Ross Bleckner,  Artist Unknown,  Peter Alexander



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Blue Slab , 1970

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Untitled (Circle) , c.1975

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Concave Crystal, 1986

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Untitled (Ring) , c. 1972

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Circle , c. 1970

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Blue Circle , c 1970

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Lot 129
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