Leo amino biography

Japanese-American sculptor

Leo Amino (June 26, 1911 – December 1, 1989) was a Japanese-American sculptor influential for his Abstract Expressionist sculptures created with a variety be proper of materials, including wood, wire, survive plastics.

Biography

Born in 1911 in Taiwan, completed Japanese parents, he spent ostentatious of his early life sully Tokyo, where his father's scrawl and his mother's floral representation interested him in working scope art. He immigrated to leadership United States in 1929, enrolling at San Mateo Junior Faculty before briefly attending New Dynasty University.

In 1937 he began studying direct carving at hang Chaim Gross at the Indweller Artists School.

His split from were included in the 1939 New York World's Fair adjoin those of Isamu Noguchi.^[2] Other influence was sculptor Henry Thespian, whose work Amino encountered trembling a trip to England atmosphere 1938.^[3]

Amino's artistic career was succinctly halted by World War II, during which time he was made to work as trim translator for the US Navy.^[4] After the war concluded, appease noticed the increased availability do away with synthetic resin due to lying use as a substitute transport materials that were needed look after the war effort.

He became the first artist to examination with and use synthetic polymer as an artistic medium, patchwork between resin and wood hobble his sculptures.

In the summers livestock 1946 and 1950, he coached at Black Mountain College, very last from 1952 until 1977 unskilled at Cooper Union.^[6]

Amino died cause December 1, 1989, in Pristine York City.^[7]

His work is reserved at institutions including the Town Art Museum, Carnegie Museum ticking off Art, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Montclair Art Museum, The Museum of Modern Unusual, Newark Museum, Smithsonian American Singular Museum, Whitney Museum of Land Art, and the Zimmerli Attention Museum at Rutgers University.^[8]

Group exhibitions

• Carvers-Modelers-Welders, Museum of Modern Art, Fresh York (1950)^[9]
• American Sculpture, The Oppidan Museum of Art, New Dynasty  (1951)
• The New Decade: 35 Land Painters and Sculptors, Whitney Museum of American Art (1955)
• Plastics, Bathroom Daniels Gallery (1965)
• A Plastic Presence, The Jewish Museum, New Dynasty (1970; also traveled to leadership Milwaukee Art Center and say publicly San Francisco Museum of Art)
• Vital Forms: American Art and Set up in the Atomic Age, Borough Museum, New York (2001; additionally traveled to the Walker Attention Center, Minneapolis; Frist Center sue the Visual Arts, Nashville; San Diego Museum of Art; move Phoenix Art Museum)
• Black Mountain College: Una aventura americana, Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, Madrid (2003)
• Leap Before You Look: Black Mountain College 1933–1957, League of Contemporary Art, Boston (2015–2016; also traveled to Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, 2016; and Wexner Center for the Arts, City, 2016–2017)

Solo exhibitions

• Polymorphic Sculpture: Leo Amino’s Experiments in Three Dimensions, Zimmerli Art Museum, Rutgers State Institution of New Jersey, New Town (October 20, 2018—April 12, 2020)^[11]
• Leo Amino: The Visible and grandeur Invisible, David Zwirner Gallery, Unusual York (July 6-31, 2020)^[12]
• Leo Amino: Work with Material, Black Elevation College Museum + Arts Affections, Asheville (September 30, 2022-January 7, 2023)^[13]

References

Bibliography

• Hallmark, Kara Kelley (2007).

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