Mixed media artwork by Rob Wynne, dated 1996

Mixed media artwork by Rob Wynne, dated 1996. 36.5 inches by 39.5 inches with frame, 15 inches by 18 inches without frame

Rob Wynne
(Source: Wiki) Rob Wynne (born 1948) is an American visual artist best known for his use of glass to produce abstract and text wall installations. He lives and works in New York City.

Wynne's work spans sculpture, jewelry, painting, drawing, collage, installations, design, and photography. Wynne's early drawings and collages were influenced by the Fluxus movement via Ray Johnson, a seminal figure of Neo-Dada and founder of the New York Correspondence School. Having met Johnson during the 1970s, Wynne says that: through Ray I got interested in the idea of using a typewriter and Western Union, and we developed an epistolary relationship. Wynne once went to Western Union and wrote a telegram to himself that read: You are still alive. In the mid-1970s Wynne scored music, opera, and soundscape for the dramatic readings of Marguerite Young's epic novel Miss MacIntosh, My Darling as part of radio station WBAI's series called The Reading Experiment.

Wynne's use of industrial materials in his work, such as his Xerox art,[3] was a part of his first installation, Sphere Redux, at The Kitchen in New York City, in 1981. It consisted of two rear screen projections of a large rotating glass marble, scored with opera and breaking glass, synchronized with video monitors arranged along the base of one wall, hung with blueprint blow-ups of glass marbles, moon rocks, and caves, intermixed with portraits of friends whose features were overshadowed by masks.

In the 1990s, Wynne's exhibitions of paintings, sculptures, and prints at the Holly Solomon Gallery became installations;[7] his works set against wallpaper with images from the opera La Sonnambula (Bellini)[8] or The Flies (Sartre).[9]

In recent years, Wynne has become interested in glass as a medium. In the course of a visit to a glass foundry. "There", Wynne says, I started this experiment. It was purely by accident. I was holding a ladle of molten glass when it slipped out of my hands and spilled onto the floor, making a huge splat, which was absolutely spectacular. And at that moment I thought it was a kind of cosmic explosion and that it would be so interesting to fix it permanently, silver it and see it really glimmer. That led me to realize that I could control it somewhat more than just letting it fall out of a ladle and I could start making actual letters.

Wynne began to use glass to create large scale text pieces. Wynne explained that his glass text pieces were intended to "be much more reflective so when you are reading them you see yourself reading them." Olivia Ryder for UrbanGlass writes, He effectively reinstates that reflective nature with his literary creations. The disassociated words and phrases, adopts the viewers voice and adds a layer of introspection, disrupting the barriers between art and viewer.

In Wynne's 2018 show, Float at the Brooklyn Museum of Art, he installed sixteen works within the American Art galleries. The works were placed in direct dialogue with selected works from the collection. Barbara A. MacAdam from the Brooklyn Rail described Wynne's installations, The objects of the gallery--the artifacts, paintings, sculpture, and furniture are reflected upon by the artist, literally and figuratively, and become a part of his, and our, stream of consciousness.

In his work, Wynne freely appropriates fragments of texts and images taken from literature, opera, theater, and conversation. In addition to his work in glass, Wynne works with smoke, embroidery, paint, thread, bronze, and ceramics.
Condition Report: Good condition overall