Melvin Edwards
B WIRE, BEWARE, ALL WAYS ART

For this exhibition, Melvin Edwards has conceived new site-specific installations made from barbed wire (B wire, as the artist calls it). Edwards began to use barbed wire for his sculptural installations in the late 1960s. In 1970, he showed four of these works in an exhibition at the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York, the first solo exhibition by an African-American sculptor at this institution. At Galerie Buchholz, Melvin Edwards brings his new installations and sculptures into dialogue with works on paper from the early 1970s.