Melvin Edwards: Five Decades: Nasher Sculpture Center

Melvin Edwards's solo show Melvin Edwards: Five Decades at the Nasher Sculpture Center, Dallas, TX.

The institution's press release follows:

Nasher Sculpture Center, Dallas
January 13, 2015 - May 10, 2015

Zimmerli Museum of Art, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ
September 1, 2015 – January 3, 2016

Columbus Museum of Art, Columbus, OH
February 12 - May 8, 2016

Melvin Edwards retrospective exhibition Melvin Edwards: Five Decades, curated by Catherine Craft at the Nasher Sculpture Center, Dallas, TX.

The exhibition, the first survey of Edwards' work since 1993, presents a range of his achievements including the Lynch Fragments, seminal large scale sculptures from the 1960s, as well as groundbreaking installations made with barbed-wire dating from the 1960s and 1970s. The exhibition features the recreation of Edwards' landmark 1970 barbed-wire installation at the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York. Melvin Edwards: Five Decades will provide a new focus on the role of place in Edwards' art, encompassing his upbringing in Texas and Ohio, his artistic emergence in Los Angeles in the early 1960s, the artist's experiences in New York, and his frequent trips to Africa.

The exhibition is accompanied by a fully illustrated scholarly catalog with essays by curator Catherine Craft, and art historians Alex Potts and Tobias Wofford.