James Welling | American, 1951 -
Born in Hartford, CT, Welling studied drawing at Carnegie Mellon University and video at the California Institute of the Arts. Welling's is a photographer best known for his photographs of everyday materials such as phyllo dough and aluminum foil. Welling's never formally studied photography, he set up a darkroom in 1976 and began learning about printing and developing with a series of architectural photographs of Los Angeles, CA. He emerged in the 1970s as an artist for whom photographic norms and the representational field itself were and remain contested and problematized. In 1985, Welling received the National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship. His work is currently held in several collections, including the Museum of Modern Art and the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York.
Born in Hartford, CT, Welling studied drawing at Carnegie Mellon University and video at the California Institute of the Arts. Welling's is a photographer best known for his photographs of everyday materials such as phyllo dough and aluminum foil. Welling's never formally studied photography, he set up a darkroom in 1976 and began learning about printing and developing with a series of architectural photographs of Los Angeles, CA. He emerged in the 1970s as an artist for whom photographic norms and the representational field itself were and remain contested and problematized. In 1985, Welling received the National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship. His work is currently held in several collections, including the Museum of Modern Art and the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York.