Melvin Edwards
| Melvin Edwards | |
|---|---|
| Born |
Melvin Eugene Edwards, Jr. May 4, 1937 Houston, Texas |
| Nationality | American |
| Alma mater | University of Southern California |
| Known for | Drawing, Printmaking, Sculpture |
| Spouse(s) | Jayne Cortez |
| Website | Official website |
Mel Edwards (born 1937) is an American sculptor, based in New York City. He has had more than a dozen one-person show exhibits and been in over four dozen group shows. He has had solo exhibitions at the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York City, the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, and the New Jersey State Museum, Trenton, New Jersey. His works, characterised by the use of straight-edged triangular and rectilinear forms, often have a political content.
Melvin Eugene Edwards, Jr., was born in Houston, Texas, the eldest of his parents' four children. Edwards is a graduate of the University of Southern California and also studied at Los Angeles City College, and the Los Angeles County Art Institute.
In 1964, he began teaching at San Bernardino Valley College. He went on to teach at the Chouinard Art Institute (now the California Institute of the Arts), the Orange County Community College in New York, and the University of Connecticut. His first one-person exhibition was held at the Santa Barbara Museum of Art, Santa Barbara, California, in 1965. In 1972 he began teaching at Rutgers University, where he taught classes in sculpture, drawing and Third World artists until his retirement from the school in 2002. In 1975 he was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship.
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