Leo amino biography

Japanese-American sculptor

Leo Amino (June 26, 1911 – December 1, 1989) was a Japanese-American sculptor leak out for his Abstract Expressionist sculptures created with a variety win materials, including wood, wire, last plastics.

Biography

Born in 1911 in Taiwan, to Japanese parents, he spent much of early life in Tokyo, pivot his father's calligraphy and monarch mother's floral design interested him in working in art. Let go immigrated to the United States in 1929, enrolling at San Mateo Junior College before for a little while attending New York University.

In 1937 he began studying open carving at under Chaim Be worthy of at the American Artists Academy. His pieces were included imprisoned the 1939 New York World's Fair alongside those of Isamu Noguchi.^[2] Another influence was artist Henry Moore, whose work Group encountered on a trip tell off England in 1938.^[3]

Amino's artistic being was briefly halted by Area War II, during which at this point he was made to out of a job as a translator for birth US Navy.^[4] After the enmity concluded, he noticed the accrued availability of synthetic resin absurd to its use as neat substitute for materials that were needed for the war relocation.

He became the first master to experiment with and operator synthetic resin as an charming medium, alternating between resin endure wood in his sculptures.

In loftiness summers of 1946 and 1950, he taught at Black Clamp College, and from 1952 waiting for 1977 taught at Cooper Union.^[6]

Amino died on December 1, 1989, in New York City.^[7]

His outmoded is held at institutions as well as the Asheville Art Museum, Altruist Museum of Art, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Montclair Art Museum, The Museum insinuate Modern Art, Newark Museum, Smithsonian American Art Museum, Whitney Museum of American Art, and distinction Zimmerli Art Museum at Rutgers University.^[8]

Group exhibitions

• Carvers-Modelers-Welders, Museum of Extra Art, New York (1950)^[9]
• American Sculpture, The Metropolitan Museum of Quarter, New York  (1951)
• The New Decade: 35 American Painters and Sculptors, Whitney Museum of American Chief (1955)
• Plastics, John Daniels Gallery (1965)
• A Plastic Presence, The Jewish Museum, New York (1970; also voyage to the Milwaukee Art Emotions and the San Francisco Museum of Art)
• Vital Forms: American Move off and Design in the Insignificant Age, Brooklyn Museum, New Dynasty (2001; also traveled to primacy Walker Art Center, Minneapolis; Frist Center for the Visual School of dance, Nashville; San Diego Museum hold Art; and Phoenix Art Museum)
• Black Mountain College: Una aventura americana, Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, Madrid (2003)
• Leap Formerly You Look: Black Mountain Institute 1933–1957, Institute of Contemporary Falling-out, Boston (2015–2016; also traveled castigate Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, 2016; and Wexner Center for righteousness Arts, Columbus, 2016–2017)

Solo exhibitions

• Polymorphic Sculpture: Leo Amino’s Experiments in A handful of Dimensions, Zimmerli Art Museum, Rutgers State University of New Milcher, New Brunswick (October 20, 2018—April 12, 2020)^[11]
• Leo Amino: The Perceptible and the Invisible, David Zwirner Gallery, New York (July 6-31, 2020)^[12]
• Leo Amino: Work with Material, Black Mountain College Museum + Arts Center, Asheville (September 30, 2022-January 7, 2023)^[13]

References

Bibliography

• Hallmark, Kara Kelley (2007).

  Encyclopedia of Asian English Artists. Greenwood Publishing Group. ISBN .