Mel Edwards

Melvin "Mel" Edwards (bɛ daa dɔɣi o la Silimiin goli May dabaa anahi dali yuuni 1937)Samella S. Lewis, African American Art and Artists, University of California Press, 2003, p. 210. Lisa S. Weitzman, "Edwards, Melvin 1937–", encyclopedia.com. nyɛla Americanima nuchee ni baŋda ni karimba. O nuchee ni baŋsim nyɛla din chani ni siyaasa tali ka tooi jɛndiri African-American taarihi. O nyɛla ŋun be Upstate New York mini Plainfield, New Jersey.

 Exhibitions 
Edwards nyɛla ŋun daa be "large number of solo shows" din daa niŋ United States mini tiŋduya. O tumanima shɛŋa nyɛ Melvin Edwards (1965), Santa Barbara Museum of Art, California; Melvin Edwards: Sculptor (1978), Studio Museum in Harlem, New York; The Sculpture of Melvin Edwards, SculptureCenter, New York; Mel Edwards: Lynch Fragment Series (1985), Robeson Gallery, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, New Jersey n-ti pahi Melvin Edwards (2022), Dia Beacon, Beacon, New York.

O tumanima ŋɔ yuuni pihita chuɣu nyɛla din daa niŋ yuuni 1993 ka din daa niŋ luɣ'shɛli nyɛ Neuberger Museum of Art, Purchase, New York, 50-year retrospective titled Melvin Edwards: Five Decades nyɛla din daa niŋ yuuni 2015 ka di ni daa niŋ luɣ'shɛli nyɛ Nasher Sculpture Center, Dallas.Jerome Weeks, "Melvin Edwards At The Nasher: Man of Steel", Art & Seek, January 31, 2015.Lance Esplund, "Review of 'Melvin Edwards: Five Decades' at the Nasher Sculpture Center", The Wall Street Journal, March 31, 2015.Lucinda H. Gedeon; Melvin Edwards; Melvin Edwards sculpture : a thirty-year retrospective, 1963–1993, Neuberger Museum of Art, State University of New York at Purchase; Seattle: distributed by the University of Washington Press, 1993. World Cat. 

Awards and honors

 1975 – awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship.Fellows , The John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation.
 1984 – grants from the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA).
 1988 – Fulbright Fellowship to Zimbabwe from 1988–1989.
 1992 – elected into the National Academy of Design as an Associate, and became a full Academician in 1994.
2000 – Lab Grant Artist Residency Program, Dieu Donné, Brooklyn, New York
 He received an Honorary Doctorate of Fine Arts from the Massachusetts College of Art and Design (MassArt) in 2014."Honorary Doctor of Fine Arts:  Melvin Edwards" , Commencement Honorees 2014, Massachusetts College of Art and Design.
 He is the subject of the 2016 documentary film by Lydie Diakhaté, entitled Some Bright Morning: The Art of Melvin Edwards."Some Bright Morning: The Art Of Melvin Edwards" at African Film Festival, New York, 2016.

 Notable works in public collections 

August the Squared Fire (1965), San Francisco Museum of Modern Art
The Lifted X (1965), Museum of Modern Art, New York
The Fourth Circle (1966), Los Angeles County Museum of Art
Curtain (for William and Peter) (1969), Tate, London
Pyramid Up and Pyramid Down (1969, refabricated 2017), Whitney Museum, New York
Untitled (Wall Hanging) (1982), Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art, Bentonville, Arkansas
Working Thought (1985), from the series Lynch Fragments, Studio Museum in Harlem, New York
Justice for Tropic-Ana (dedicated to Ana Mendieta) (1986), from the series Lynch Fragments, Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh
Cup of? (1988), from the series Lynch Fragments, Museum of Modern Art, New York
Ready Now Now (1988), from the series Lynch Fragments, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
Takawira - J (1989), from the series Lynch Fragments, Brooklyn Museum, New York
Good Word from Cayenne (1990), from the series Lynch Fragments, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston
Tomorrow's Wind (1990), Thomas Jefferson Park, New York City Department of Parks and Recreation
Off and Gone (1992), from the series Lynch Fragments, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago
Tambo (1993), Smithsonian American Art Museum, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C.
Siempre Gilberto de la Nuez (1994), from the series Lynch Fragments, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Deni Malick (1999), from the series Lynch Fragments, Fralin Museum of Art, Charlottesville, Virginia
Fragments & Shadows (2001), Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York; and Museum of Modern Art, New York
Soba (2002), from the series Lynch Fragments, Detroit Institute of Arts
Scales of Injustice (2017/year of exhibition), Baltimore Museum of Art

 Lihimi m-pahi 

 List of African-American visual artists

Kundivihira

External links
Melvin Edwards website.
 Carol Kino, "Rediscovering Someone Recognized", The New York Times, October 17, 2012.
 Michael Brenson, "Melvin Edwards", BOMB magazine – Artists in Conversation, November 24, 2014.
 Catherine Craft, "Conversations with Melvin Edwards", Nasher Sculpture Center.
 "NO. 170: Melvin Edwards, Gohar Dashti", The Modern Art Notes Podcast.

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