James Welling
Photographs 1974-1999
Wexner Centre for the Arts, Columbus, Ohio, 2000
Michael Fried, Sarah J. Rogers
pages 128
first edition
dimensions 28 × 25.5 cm, softcover
language English
ISBN 1-881390-25-X
ARTISTS
James Welling

Is an artist a photographer and educator. He attended Carnegie-Mellon University where he studied drawing with Gandy Brodie and at the University of Pittsburgh where he took modern dance classes. Welling transferred to the Institute of the Arts in Valencia, California in 1971. He studied with John Baldessari, Wolfgang Stoerchle and Jack Goldstein. He began to make photographs in 1976 using a 4x5 view camera. His first body of work, Los Angeles Architecture and Portraits, consisted of photographs of his friends and local architecture. In 1978 he moved to New York and began a sequence of abstract photographs. In 1995 he joined the the Department of Art at the University of California, Los Angeles. He Currently teaches in the Visual Art Program at the Lewis Center at Princeton University.