James Welling

James Welling was born in 1951 and raised in Hartford, Connecticut. He studied drawing at Carnegie-Mellon University from 1969 to 1971, then transferred to the California Institute of the Arts where he began to study video. In 1978, Welling moved to New York, where he embarked on a series of new projects that took simple materials as subjects. His work has appeared in over sixty international solo and group exhibitions, and is currently represented in public and private collections, including those at New York’s Museum of Modern Art, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, and the Whitney Museum of American Art. Welling is the recipient of a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship and has taught at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Bard College, and at the University of California, Los Angeles. Since 1995, Welling has lived in Los Angeles, where he is head of the photography department at University of California, Los Angeles (via http://www.tclf.org/)



ふとした時に思い出すイメージがある
大好きな写真家James Wellingのこの花々
こういうのを一目惚れっていうんだろうな
もう脳裏に焼き付いてしまってるんだ

今日もふとした瞬間あたまをよぎった
何の瞬間だかなんて忘れたけど
あるいは風を感じた時だったかもしれない

気になってまた検索してみたら
いつのまにやら新作が　といっても2年も前になるけど
出てたのでうれしくなってこれ書いてます

イギリスのSaatchi Galleryでもexhibitionやってたんですね
あー今はこんなにも近いのに・・・
NYはさすがに遠いわ
数年前に新宿の小さいギャラリーでやってたのは見に行ったんだけど
この花シリーズの写真集その時まだ出てなくて今も買いそびれてる
欲しいなあ
欲しいものがたくさんだなあ

"Grass House"

James Welling, 0696 (Glass House series), 2006

James Welling, 6063 (Glass House series), 2008

James Welling, 0745 (Glass House series), 2006

4559, 2007 Ink jet print 31 x 42

From the Press Release:

The iconic theme of the glass house gives the artist the opportunity to explore the photographic medium through the element that constitutes the leitmotif of his work : light. Using different tinted filters placed in front of the objective, James Welling explores three types of themes : the house, different views of the interior, and the pavillon on the lake, thus alernating and manipulating colors in an unusual way.

Under the glass roof, James Welling presents his very first film, « Lake Pavillon », made in 2009 with a low-defintion digital camera. As for the series of photographs, the artist uses color filters placed in front of the objective of his camera, thus giving the image strong saturation and luminosity. In a loop of about six minutes, we follow and hear the artist’s steps as he paces around in the pavillon of the lake, alternating close-ups of the pavillon and the snow-covered landscape around it.

“I thought about nesting emotional resonance within the form. In all my work, the alternation between empty and full, Kingdom and Darkness, produces a current which lights the image. In this sense my work is representational. What it represents is the invisible, seen with the aid of a conceptual baffle.”

-James Welling

He is one of few photo artists I love.
His images of flowers pop into my mind sometimes unexpectedly.
"Grass House" series which is his recent work is absolutely beautiful.
Yet, NY and Los angels are too far from here...
hey please come and take place your exhibition in UK or Japan again!!