1. Albert Paley was born on 1944 and is an American modernist metal sculptor.
22 Facts About Albert Paley
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Albert Paley is the first metal sculptor to have received the Lifetime Achievement Award from the American Institute of Architects.
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Albert Paley was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania during World War II.
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At around age 8, Albert Paley joined the Boy Scouts of America, and even became a face for a billboard for the Boy Scouts.
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Albert Paley became a studio assistant in the school's metal-shop under the supervision of Stanley Lechtzin, who was a strong influence for Paley.
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Albert Paley earned his Bachelor of Fine Arts in sculpting with a minor in metalsmithing in 1966.
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Albert Paley taught full-time while a graduate student, and had stopped experimenting in sculpture, focusing all his time and energy into jewelry work.
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Albert Paley received both diplomas from the Tyler School of Art, a part of Temple University, in Philadelphia.
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Albert Paley moved to Rochester, New York in 1969 to teach at the Rochester Institute of Technology, where he now holds an endowed chair.
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Albert Paley taught goldsmithing until 1972, when he decided to focus solely on his own work.
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Albert Paley became well known for his style and scale.
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Albert Paley eventually stopped making jewelry completely, collecting any pieces in the possession of galleries, and selling all his tools.
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Albert Paley hired a past student, Richard Palmer, as a full-time assistant, and they spent a year creating the famous Portal Gates for the Renwick.
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Albert Paley had created an array of decorative objects before the Renwick Gates, using his garage-shop.
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Albert Paley already had another museum commission from the Hunter Museum of American Art in Tennessee for an 85-foot long ornamental [1].
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Since then, Albert Paley has done many private commissions for driveway, garden, and fence gates in addition to his numerous public commissions.
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Albert Paley did several other large-scale sculptures in the 80's which share similarities in their simplicity of form with basic elements.
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Albert Paley's career move from Goldsmith to Metal Sculptor is well explained in an interesting interview by Cathleen McCarthy.
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In 1998, Albert Paley was invited to the Pilchuck Glass School[3] for a summer residency.
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Albert Paley did another glass residency in 2014 with the Corning Museum of Glass[4] located in Corning, New York.
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Albert Paley worked there for a year, where he practiced furnace-working and cast Corning Code 7056, a specific type of glass that can form bonds with a metal alloy called Kovar.
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Albert Paley chose this specific glass blend because of its similar properties to that of Kovar, which allowed him to create pieces that fused the glass and metal with each other.