Artists

Joel Perlman (b.1943)

American abstract artist Joel Perlman has earned renown for carrying forward the great modernist tradititon of welded steel sculpture established by Picasso and Julio Gonzalez, and elaborated by David Smith.

Perlman's work resides in a number of permanent collections including the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Whitney Museum of American Art, the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden and other leading institutions. 

Joel Perlman studied at the Central School of Art in 1964 and completed his Bachelor of Fine Art at Cornell University in 1965. In 1977 he recieved his M.A. from the Univeristy of California, Berkeley and between 1967-72 was an instructor at Bennington College. From 1973 until the present day he has been an instructor at the School of Visual Arts, New York.

Amongst Perlman's most significant commissions are: Storm King Art Center, New York (1977), the commission for the Winter Olympics, Lake PLacid (1980), Tenneco World Headquarters (1996), Grounds for Sculpture, New Jersey (1998) and ABN Amro Plaza, Chicago (2004).

During his career there have been numerous solo exhibtions of Perlman's work in New York, Chicago, Atlanta, Los Angeles as well as in Zurich, Bonn and London.

The monograph 'Joel Perlman, A Sculptors Journey' (2006) provides a complete survey of Perlman's career to date.