Melvin Edwards
Portrait of Melvin Edwards. Courtesy of the artist.
Biography
Melvin Edwards (b. 1937, Houston, Texas, USA) is an influential American sculptor, printmaker, and educator whose work bridges abstraction, industrial materials, and social-history narratives. He began his artistic career as a painter, but in the early 1960s transitioned into welded-steel sculpture, forging chains, spikes, barbed-wire and found-metal elements into powerful assemblages that reference African-American experience, collective memory and global diaspora.
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May 4, 1937
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