triple disk red metal flake
black edge

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Colorado’s “Valentine” features a survey of work by Fort Collins native and California artist DeWain Valentine. Valentine was born in 1936 in Fort Collins, Colorado.

Valentine is best known for his luminous, highly polished cast resin sculptures and as a founding member of the California Light and Space movement of the 1960s and 1970s. He is also an important figure associated with the Finish Fetish movement. In 2011-12 his work was featured in Pacific Standard Time, a major investigation of California art, and in a related solo exhibition at the Getty Museum in Los Angeles.

His Triple Disk Red Metal Flake—Black Edge is prominent in the new installation of post-war American Art at the Museum of Modern Art in New York and was featured on the cover of the New York Times last fall. While Valentine is well known in art circles, few in Fort Collins are aware of his work, his history with our city, or of his important contributions to American Art.This exhibition will celebrate the work of this Fort Collins’ native and examine his body of work in light of his
dv_1975_diamond_column_2 Colorado roots and how these roots have influenced the trajectory of his artistic practice.

DeWain Valentine is an American minimalist sculptor who was born in Fort Collins, Colorado in 1936. He was raised in Fort Collins and attended Fort Collins High School in the building that now houses the University Art Museum.

Often associated with the Light and Space movement in the 1960s, he is best known for his translucent glass, 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, Valentine moved to Los Angeles in 1965 and had his
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 that reflect and distort the light and space that surround them. For Valentine, a smooth surface was the whole point of the work and he did not want it to look old. While he was teaching a course in plastics technology at UCLA in 1965, he wanted to produce a polyester resin in large volumes that would not crack would not crack from curing. He began working with a chemical engineer from PPG Industries Ed Revay, and eventually they discovered the Valentine MasKast Resin in 1966. The highly stable resin allowed him and other artists to go far beyond the 50-pound limit to which they had once been restricted. In 1989, Valentine designed the Governor’s Awards for the Arts, presented by the California Arts Council to artists, arts patrons and community leaders.
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‘primary atmospheres: works from california 1960-1970’ at david zwirner gallery focuses on minimal
artwork coming from nineteen-sixties california. this particular art movement centred around los angeles
and ‘differentiated itself in its emphasis on surface, synthetic materials, industrial processes, and
perception.’ this survey show features work from this movement, including pieces by peter alexander,
larry bell, laddie john dill and james turrell. also known under the term ‘light and space’, this art is
minimal in form, with alluring surfaces made from non-traditional materials and a use of colour and
light that is characteristic of the southern california environment.
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De Wain Valentine was born in 1936 in Colorado, where his early experiences polishing rocks and painting cars fostered a deep interest in reflective surfaces, translucence, and industrial processes. Attracted by the work of artists such as Larry Bell, Craig Kauffman, and Ken Price, which he learned about by reading the magazine Artforum, 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 that reflect and distort the light and space that surround them. His contribution to the plastics industry made him stand out from his contemporaries working in these materials: Valentine developed a modified polyester resin so that he could cast colossal objects in a single pour, the material being sold as Valentine MasKast resin.
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De Wain Valentine é um escultor minimalista americano que nasceu em Fort Collins, Colorado, em 1936. Frequentemente associado ao movimento luz e espaço na década de 1960, ele é mais conhecido por seus vidro translúcido, fibra de vidro e resina de poliéster elenco esculturas que têm superfícies lisas sugestivo de máquina feita objetos. Ele vive e trabalha em Gardena, Califórnia.

Início da vida e carreira

Valentine trabalhou em lojas de barco e começou a fazer peças de arte de plástico, que ele tentou, sem sucesso, para mostrar, em Nova York. Atraído pelo trabalho de artistas como Larry Bell, Craig Kauffman, e Kenneth Price, que ele aprendeu sobre lendo a revista Artforum, Valentine mudou-se para Los Angeles em 1965 e teve a sua primeira exposição individual na Galeria Ace em 1968.

Trabalho

Influenciado pelas marinhas e céus do sul da Califórnia, Valentine foi um dos pioneiros do uso de plásticos industriais e resina para produzir esculturas monumentais que refletem e distorcem a luz e espaço que os cercam. Para Valentim, uma superfície lisa foi o ponto de todo o trabalho e ele não quer olhar de idade. Enquanto ele estava dando um curso em tecnologia de plásticos na UCLA, em 1965, ele queria produzir uma resina de poliéster em grandes volumes que não iria rachar de cura. Ele começou a trabalhar com um engenheiro químico da PPG Industries Ed Revay, e, eventualmente, eles descobriram que o Valentine MasKast Resin em 1966. A resina altamente estável permitiu que ele e outros artistas para ir muito além do limite de 50 libras para que uma vez tinha sido restringida. Em 1989, Valentine projetado Prêmios do governador para as Artes, apresentados pelo Conselho de Artes da Califórnia para artistas, patronos das artes e líderes comunitários.

Colecções

O Denver Art Museum, o Museu de Arte de Honolulu, o Museu Louisiana State University of Art, o Museu de Arte Moderna, o Museu Norton Simon, o Harrison Museum of Art Nora Eccles, e do Museu de San Diego de Arte estão entre as colecções públicas segurando trabalho por DeWain Valentine. Entre as artes diversas coleções corporativas que têm excelentes exemplos do trabalho de Vantine são a coleção de arte corporativa Atlantic Richfield; eo Anaconda Corporation.

Reconhecimento

Em 1980, Valentine recebeu uma bolsa pela John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation.

Mercado artístico

Em outubro de 2011, o Círculo dos Namorados, ovo azul disco de resina de um robin apenas 17 centímetros de diâmetro, que são vendidos em LA Leilões modernos por 32.500 dólares, um recorde para o artista e bem mais de seis vezes a estimativa de alta de US $ 5.000. Discos monumentais de Valentine pode ir por US $ 500.000 a US $ 1 milhão.