Rob wynne biography
- Rob Wynne (born 1948) is an American visual artist best known for his use of glass to produce abstract and text wall installations.
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Rob Wynne is an American visual artist who lives and works in New York City. Wynne has had numerous solo gallery exhibitions, including JGM Galerie, Paris, Galerie Edward Mitterand, Geneva, and Holly Solomon Gallery, New York. His work has been featured in group exhibitions at the McNay Art Museum, TX, P.S.1 Institute for Contemporary Art, NY, Long Beach Museum of Art, CA, The Drawing Center, NY, and the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA. Wynne’s work is in the collections of the Whitney Museum of American Art, NY, The Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY, Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, PA, Centre Pompidou, Paris, France, The Norton Museum of Art, Palm Beach, FL, the Columbus Museum of Art, Columbus OH and the Bibliotheque Nationale de France, Paris. A fully illustrated monograph entitled Obstacle Illusion was published in 2023 by Gregory R. Miller & Co. and is the first comprehensive monograph of Wynne’s work from the 1970s to the current day. In 2023 Wynne had a solo exhibition Afterglow at Craig Starr Gallery, New York, NY and in 2024 a solo exhibition Prelude
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Rob Wynne American, b. 1948
Rob Wynne's (B.1950) art is intertwined with allusive phrases that he appropriates from literature, television and conversations. Once extracted from their context, and juxtaposed with Wynne's surreal, nostalgic imagery, they create a Proustian atmosphere where such figures as Louis Aragon, Maria Callas, and Georges Bataille seem to have a dialogue. In his 1990s installations at Holly Solomon Gallery and Grey Art Gallery in New York, Wynne embroidered photographs of 18th century Meissen figurines with fresh anachronistic texts; lined rooms with butterflies or snakes silkscreened on wallpaper; and embroidered suits with Jean Genet's stage directions before hanging them in the window. In his most recent work, Wynne choreographs large hand-poured letters of mirrored glass on the walls to embody his collection of borrowed thoughts such as ADIEU, VISIBLE SILENCE, and BE COME!.
Portrait Image | Marco Anelli © 2019 | From the book Artist Studios New York, Damiani Editore, 2020
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Rob Wynne: FLOAT
New York–based artist Rob Wynne (born 1950) works in a variety of mediums, ranging from hand-embroidered paintings and collage to sculpture and digital photography, but at heart he is an alchemist. In recent years he has experimented increasingly with molten glass, using hand-poured and mirrored glass in a series of large-scale installations, several of which are on display. Also featured are his glass texts, in which the artist borrows words or phrases detached from their original contexts in order to generate cryptic or contradictory meanings.
The title of Wynne’s gallery activation alludes to the ephemeral nature of images. Featuring sixteen works—seemingly floating within the American Art galleries and placed in direct dialogue with selected works from the collection—the installation invites a creatively disruptive aesthetic experience. Wynne’s mirrored glass pieces explore, and slightly skew, how we experience works of art—creating reflective pauses and jolts of surprise that reveal the collection anew.