New Abstractions #1A’, 1998. Gelatin Silver Print, 14″ x 11″ (10″ x 8-1/2″ image), limited edition of 100. SIGNED’ JW’ (ll), numbered. (lr), titled and dated’ #1A 1998′ (lc) by artist in pencil on verso. Excellent condition with no visible defects. Last image shown is a framed example. Photo for sale is unframed. 107′ James Welling: New Abstractions’, DG BANK-Forderpreis Fotografie 1999, Sprengel Museum Hannover, 1999, plate 2. James Welling has said that his’ New Abstractions’ were influenced by modern composers, such as John Cage and Stockhausen:’ What I was really thinking about in them was musicians’ scores… I wanted to imagine these pictures as chords. For these photographs, Welling began by arranging strips of cards on photographic paper to produce photograms. He then scanned these images into a computer to flip them around, before finally making digital negatives from Photoshop files. These negatives were used to produce the final contact prints – which were made by laying the large negatives directly onto photographic paper. Part artist, part mad scientist, James Welling pushes the limits of photography. Self-trained and fueled by curiosity, there doesn’t seem to be a photographic process or tool he has yet to attempt. His abstractions are rendered as photograms, traditional gelatin silver prints, Polaroids, and digitally processed prints. He uses shutterless, digital, and vintage view cameras to create his images; in some cases he removes the camera altogether and works directly on film. Despite his wide range of methods, we can see one common thread in all of his works: light. His exhaustive research into the concept of light can be seen in the various projects that he painstakingly and continuously tackles. He explores light as a tool needed to make a photograph in his photograms, such as his. He plays with how light envelops and highlights a subject or object by photographing plants, drapery, and other found objects. Most recently, his obsession with light has led him to the exploration of color, as can been seen in his images in the 20062009. SELECT RECENT SOLO EXHIBITIONS. 2021′ James Welling: Metamorphosis’, David Zwirner Gallery, Hong Kong, Hong Kong (4/1 -). 2020′ James Welling: Choreograph’, George Eastman Museum, Rochester, NY’ James Welling: Archaeology’, Regen Projects, Los Angeles, CA’ James Welling: Seascape’, Portland Museum of Art, Portland, ME’ James Welling: The Earth, the Temple and the Gods’, Marian Goodman Gallery, Paris, France. 2019′ James Welling: Planograph’, Maureen Paley Gallery, London, UK’ Fiction and Fabrication: Photography of Architecture After the Digital Turn’ (group exhibition), Museum of Art, Architecture and Technology (MAAT), Lisbon, Portugal’ Seascape by James Welling’, Ogunquit Museum of American Art, Ogunquit, ME’ James Welling: Transform’, David Zwirner Gallery, New York, NY. 2018′ James Welling: Choreograph’, Galería Marta Cervera, Madrid, Spain. 2017′ James Welling: New Work’, Wako Works of Art, Tokyo, Japan’ James Welling: Seascape’, David Zwirner Gallery, New York, NY’ James Welling: Metamorph’, Galerie nächst St. Stephan Rosemarie Schwarzwälder, Vienna, Austria’ James Welling: Metamorphosis’, Kunstforum Wien, Vienna, Austria’ James Welling: Metamorphosis’, S. Ghent, Belgium’ James Welling: Choreograph’, Marian Goodman Gallery, Paris, France. 2016′ James Welling: Calligraphy’, WUHO Gallery, Los Angeles, CA’ James Welling: Choreograph’, Regen Projects, Los Angeles, CA’ James Welling: Choreograph’, Henry Art Gallery, University of Washington, Seattle, WA. 2015′ James Welling: Choreograph’, David Zwirner Gallery, New York, NY’ Things Beyond Resemblance: James Welling Photographs’, Brandywine River Museum of Art, Chadds Ford, PA. 2014′ James Welling: Diary of Elizabeth and James Dixon, 184041 / Connecticut Landscapes, 197786′, Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL. 2013′ James Welling: The Mind on Fire’, Contemporary Art Gallery, Vancouver, Canada’ James Welling: Autograph’, Fotomuseum Winterthur, Winterthur, Switzerland’ James Welling: Monograph’, Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, CA’ James Welling: The Mind on Fire’, Centro Galego de Arte Contemporànea, Santiago de Compostela, Spain’ James Welling: Monograph’, Cincinnati Art Museum, Cincinnati, OH’ James Welling: Place’ University Museum of Contemporary Art, UMASS Amherst, Amherst, MA. This Will Have Been: Art, Love & Politics in the 1980s. (group exhibition), Institute of Contemporary Art (ICA), Boston, MA’ James Welling: The Mind on Fire’, MK Gallery, Milton Keyes, UK’ James Welling: Overflow’, David Zwirner Gallery, New York, NY’ James Welling’, Donald Young Gallery, Chicago, IL’ James Welling: Wyeth’, Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art, Hartford, CT’ James Welling: Geometric Abstraction’, Regen Projects, Los Angeles, CA’ James Welling: Wyeth’, Wako Works of Art, Tokyo, Japan. 2011′ James Welling’, Galería Marta Cervera, Madrid, Spain’ James Welling: Glass House’, The Four Seasons Restaurant Lobby Gallery, New York, NY’ James Welling’, Maureen Paley Gallery, London, UK. Art In Stead’ (group exhibition), MAK Center for Art and Architecture at the Schindler House, West Hollywood, CA’ James Welling: Glass House’, Regen Projects, Los Angeles, CA. 2009′ James Welling: Hapax Legomania’, Donald Young Gallery, Chicago, IL’ The Pictures Generation, 19741984′ (group exhibition), Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY. The Garden at 4AM. (group exhibition), Gana Art, New York, NY’ James Welling: Notes on Color’, Wako Works of Art, Tokyo, Japan’ James Welling’, Galerie Nelson-Freeman, Paris, France. 2008′ Implant Redux’ (group exhibition), The Horticultural Society of New York (HSNY), NY’ James Welling’, Galerie Nächst St. Stephan Rosemarie Schwarzwälder, Vienna, Austria’ Implant’ (group exhibition), The UBS Art Gallery, New York, NY’ Photography on Photography: Reflections on the Medium since 1960′ (group exhibition), Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY’ James Welling: Works 1980 – 2008′, David Zwirner Gallery, New York, NY’ 2008 Whitney Biennial’ (group exhibition), Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY’ James Welling’, Regen Projects, Los Angeles, CA’ First Floor’ (group exhibition), Flo Peters Gallery, Hamburg, Germany. 2007′ Concrete Works’ (group exhibition), Mitchell-Innes & Nash, New York, NY’ James Welling’, Maureen Paley Gallery, London, UK’ James Welling: Flowers, 2005′, The Horticultural Society of New York, NY’ James Welling: Flowers, Hexachromes, and Authors’, David Zwirner Gallery, New York, NY. 2006′ The 80s: A Topology’ (group exhibition), Museu Serralves, Porto, Portugal’ Double Exposure’ (group exhibition), Center for Contemporary Non-Objective Art (CCNOA), Brussels, Belgium’ James Welling’, Galerie Nelson, Paris, France’ James Welling’, Donald Young Gallery, Chicago, IL’ James Welling’, Galerie Xavier Hufkens, Brussels, Belgium’ James Welling: New Photographs’, Wako Works of Art, Tokyo, Japan’ Agricultural Works: Photographs by James Welling’, Hudson River Museum, Yonkers, NY. 2005′ James Welling: New Work’, David Zwirner Gallery, New York, NY’ James Welling’, Regen Projects, Los Angeles, CA. 2004′ James Welling: New Photographs’, Wako Works of Art, Tokyo, Japan’ James Welling: Agrigultural Works’, Samuel Dorsky Museum of Art, SUNY, New Paltz, NY. 2003′ James Welling’, Galerie Nächst St. Stephan Rosemarie Schwarzwälder, Vienna, Austria’ James Welling: Los Angeles Photographs’, Gorney Bravin + Lee Gallery, NY James Welling: Recent Photographs , Wako Works of Art, Tokyo, Japan’ James Welling’, Regen Projects, Los Angeles, CA’ James Welling’, Galleria Raffaella Cortese, Milan, Italy. 2002′ James Welling: Abstract’, Art Gallery of York University, Toronto, Canada’ James Welling: Abstract’, Palais des Beaux Arts, Brussels, Belgium’ James Welling’, Galerie Nelson, Paris, France’ James Welling: Abstract’, Donald Young Gallery, Chicago, IL. Addison Gallery of American Art, Phillips Academy, Andover, MA Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, NY Allen Memorial Art Museum, Oberlin College, Oberlin, OH Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto, Canada Baltimore Museum of Art, Baltimore, MD Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris, France Cincinnati Art Museum, Cincinnati, OH City Collection, Geneva, N Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas, TX Denver Art Museum, Denver, CO Des Moines Art Center, Des Moines, IA Fogg Art Museum, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA Fondation Belgacom, Brussels Fonds National d’Art Contemporain (FNAC), Paris, France Fonds Régional dArt Contemporain Bourgogne, Dijon, France Fonds Régional dArt Contemporain de Bretagne, Châteaugiron, France Fonds Régional dArt Contemporain de Champagne-Ardenne, Reims, France Fonds Régional dArt Contemporain de Franche-Comté, Besançon, France Fonds Régional dArt Contemporain Nord Pas-de-Calais, Dunkerque, France Fonds Régional dArt Contemporain Pays de la Loire, Carquefou, France Grunwald Center for the Graphic Arts, Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, CA Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, CA Henry Art Gallery, Seattle, WA Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington, D. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles, CA Jane Voorhees Zimmerli Art Museum, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ KPN Collection, The Netherlands Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg, Germany Linda Pace Foundation, San Antonio, TX Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY Milwaukee Art Museum, Milwaukee, WI Musée d’art contemporain de Lyon, Lyon Musée départemental d’art contemporain de Rochechouart, Rochechouart, France Musée de La Roche-sur-Yon, Roche-sur-Yon, France Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, Rotterdam, Netherlands Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, CA Museum of Contemporary Photography, Chicago, IL Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA The Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY Museum Moderner Kunst, Vienna, Austria National Museum of Art, Architecture and Design, Oslo, Norway Olympic Collection, Oslo, Norway Sammlung Goetz, Munich, Germany San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, NY Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography, Tokyo, Japan Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver, Canada Wadsworth Atheneum, Hartford, CT Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY Yale University Museum of Art, New Haven, CT. PLEASE SEE MY OTHER AUCTIONS BY CLICKING MY. The item “JAMES WELLING’New Abstractions #1A’, 1998 SIGNED Photograph Limited Edition” is in sale since Tuesday, July 10, 2007. This item is in the category “Art\Art Photographs”. The seller is “thearteryfineart” and is located in Boston, Massachusetts. This item can be shipped worldwide.
- Size: Medium (up to 36in.)
- Region of Origin: US
- Artist: James Welling
- Style: Abstract
- Listed By: Dealer or Reseller
- Quantity Type: Single-Piece Work
- Date of Creation: 1950-Now
- Color Type: Black & White
- Original/Reprint: Original Print
- Signed?: Signed
- Year: 1998
- Features: Signed
- Framing: Unframed
- Size Type/Largest Dimension: Large (Greater than 10”)
- Width (Inches): 11
- Color: Black & White
- Photo Type: Gelatin Silver
- Subject: Abstract
- Framed/Unframed: Unframed
- Originality: Limited Edition Print
- Height (Inches): 14