Rob Wynne

In Wynne's 2018 show, Float at the Brooklyn Museum of Art, he installed sixteen works within the American Art galleries. The works were placed in direct dialogue with selected works from the collection. Barbara A. MacAdam from the Brooklyn Rail described Wynne's installations, "The objects of the gallery—the artifacts, paintings, sculpture, and furniture are reflected upon by the artist, literally and figuratively, and become a part of his, and our, stream of consciousness."

In the 1990s, Wynne's exhibitions of paintings, sculptures, and prints at the Holly Solomon Gallery became installations; his works set against wallpaper with images from the opera La Sonnambula (Bellini) or The Flies (Sartre).

Wynne's use of industrial materials in his work, such as his Xerox art, was a part of his first installation, Sphere Redux, at The Kitchen in New York City, in 1981. It consisted of two rear screen projections of a large rotating glass marble, scored with opera and breaking glass, synchronized with video monitors arranged along the base of one wall, hung with blueprint blow-ups of glass marbles, moon rocks, and caves, intermixed with portraits of friends whose features were overshadowed by masks.

Wynne's work spans sculpture, jewelry, painting, drawing, collage, installations, design, and photography. Wynne's early drawings and collages were influenced by the Fluxus movement via Ray Johnson, a seminal figure of Neo-Dada and founder of the New York Correspondence School. Having met Johnson during the 1970s, Wynne says that "through Ray I got interested in the idea of using a typewriter and Western Union, and we developed an epistolary relationship." Wynne once went to Western Union and wrote a telegram to himself that read: "You are still alive." In the mid-1970s Wynne scored music, opera, and soundscape for the dramatic readings of Marguerite Young's epic novel Miss MacIntosh, My Darling as part of radio station WBAI's series called The Reading Experiment.

Rob Wynne (born 1948) is an American visual artist best known for his use of glass to produce abstract and text wall installations. He lives and works in New York City.