James N. Wines (American, b. 1932), Brutalist Wall Sculpture

concrete and steel, inlaid signature "WINES" near edge, together with conforming ebonized wall mount.

22 x 24 x 22 in.

Collection of Sydney and Frances Lewis, Richmond, Virginia

James Wines is an architectural designer, artist, and writer, with a multidisciplinary practice that includes buildings, public spaces, environmental art works, landscapes, master plans, interiors, video productions, graphics, and product designs. Educated at Syracuse University, he is the founder (in 1970) of SITE, a New York City based architecture practice. As the firm’s continuing President, he has designed and built more than one hundred and fifty architecture and environmental art projects in the USA, Italy, France, England, Austria, Spain, Qatar, and Japan. Professor Wines has delivered lectures at more than eight hundred colleges, universities, and professional conferences in fifty nine countries and written three books on architecture - including the latest, for Taschen Verlag Publishers in 2000. During the past decade, there have been twenty-two monographic books and museum catalogues produced on his projects for private, commercial, and municipal clients.
Winner of twenty-five art and design awards, including the Smithsonian’s 2013 National Design Award for Lifetime Achievement and the 1995 Chrysler Award for Design Innovation, James Wines was honored in 2002 by a large retrospective exhibition at the Centre FRAC in France - jointly sponsored by Centre Pompidou in Paris and the Musée des Beaux Arts in Orleans. His graphic work has been exhibited in more than one hundred and fifty museums and galleries in the USA, Europe, and Asia. Drawings and models can be found in numerous collections, including the Museum of Modern Art, Whitney Museum, Centre Pompidou, the Louvre, Victoria and Albert Museum, Australian National Gallery, Tokyo National Gallery, and others. A recent retrospective of his drawings for SITE was exhibited at the Tchoban Museum in Berlin during 2021. Professor Wines lives in the Battery Park area of New York City. He continues to work on art and design projects, research environmental issues in architecture and write for publications internationally.

Artist biography courtesy of Rhona Hoffman Gallery, Chicago

Some surface rubbing and marks to metal; overall good condition.

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