Melvin Edwards

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.