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DE WAIN VALENTINE

DE WAIN VALENTINE

b. 1936, United States
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De Wain Valentine Biography

De Wain Valentine is an American minimalist sculptor who was born in Fort Collins, Colorado. Often associated with the Light and Space movement in the 1960s, he is best known for his translucent glass, fiberglass and cast polyester resin sculptures having slick surfaces suggestive of machine made objects.

Influenced by the seascapes and skies of Southern California, Valentine was an early pioneer of using industrial plastics and resin to produce monumental sculptures that reflect and distort the light and space that surround them. For Valentine, a smooth surface was the whole point of the work and he did not want it to look old. While he was teaching a course in plastics technology at UCLA in 1965, he wanted to produce a polyester resin in large volumes that would not crack from curing. He began working with a chemical engineer from PPG Industries Ed Revay, and eventually they discovered the Valentine MasKast Resin in 1966. The highly stable resin allowed him and other artists to go far beyond the 50-pound limit to which they had once been restricted.

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Contemporary art exhibition Group Exhibition Summer at Almine Rech Gstaad Switzerland
Group Exhibition Summer Almine Rech 13 July–25 August 2024
Gstaad
Contemporary art exhibition Group Exhibition Cosmography at Templon New York United States
Group Exhibition Cosmography Templon 27 June–1 August 2024
New York
Contemporary art exhibition Group Exhibition August Presentation at Almine Rech Aspen United States
Group Exhibition August Presentation Almine Rech 6–22 August 2021
Aspen

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