James Welling was born in 1951 and raised in Hartford, Connecticut. He studied drawing at Carnegie-Mellon University from 1969 to 1971, then transferred to the California Institute of the Arts where he began to study video. In 1978, Welling moved to New York, where he embarked on a series of new projects that took simple materials as subjects. His work has appeared in over sixty international solo and group exhibitions, and is currently represented in public and private collections, including those at New York’s Museum of Modern Art, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, and the Whitney Museum of American Art. Welling is the recipient of a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship and has taught at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Bard College, and at the University of California, Los Angeles. Since 1995, Welling has lived in Los Angeles, where he is head of the photography department at University of California, Los Angeles.

About this Piece
This image was produced as part of a series of photographs of the Philip Johnson Glass House. Welling’s Glass House photographs, including this one, appeared in the article “The Next Monticello” published in New York magazine’s Spring 2007 issue.