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American photography: James Welling « Previous | |Next »
September 25, 2012

James Welling The Mind on Fire at the MK Gallery looks back to Welling's work in' the Pictures Generation', a group of artists working in New York in the 1980s.

WellingJSummation.jpg James Welling, Summation, 1981(detail). Inkjet print.

This period of experimentation generated numerous collages, paintings, notes and ephemera before culminating in a number of iconic series: minutely crumpled aluminium foil evoking starry skies or lunar landscapes; luxurious drapes sprinkled with dough suggesting snow-capped mountain ridges; and abstract colourfields appearing as sun-drenched horizons.

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