- University of Southern California
- Los Angeles City College
- Chouinard Art Institute
Melvin Edwards has developed a powerful sculptural language from welded steel, chains, tools and industrial fragments. His Lynch Fragments series, begun in the 1960s, compresses histories of racial violence, labor and resistance into dense wall-mounted reliefs.
Sculpture
Major Works
- 1963 onwardLynch Fragments
- 1963Some Bright Morning
- 1965The Lifted X
- 1969Pyramid Up and Down Pyramid
- 1984Agricola
- 1978Homage to the Poet Léon-Gontran Damas
- 1964Chaino
- 1980sTambo
- 1969Curtain for William and Peter
- 1980sWorking Thought
Interviews & Writing
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