biography of Frank Lincoln VINER (1937)

Birth place: Worcester, Mass

Addresses: New York, NY

Profession: Sculptor, designer

Studied: School Worcester Art Mus.; Yale Univ. (B.F.A., 1961; M.F.A., 1963).

Exhibited: Eccentric Abstraction, Fischbach Gallery, New York, 1966; Options, Directions, Milwaukee Art Center & Mus. Contemporary Art, Chicago, 1968; WMAA Sculpture Ann., New York, 1968; Op Losse Schroeven/Square Tags in Round Holes, Stedelijk Mus., Amsterdam, 1969; A Plastic Presence, Jewish Mus., New York, Milwaukee Art Center & San Francisco Mus. Art, 1970; 55 Mercer Gallery, NYC, 1970s.

Work: Rose Art Mus., Brandeis Univ.; Milwaukee Art Center; Riverside Mus., NYC. Commissions: five wearable sculptures, Berkshire Int. 1968; yellow environ room, Wadsworth Atheneum, Hartford, CT, 1969.

Comments: Preferred media: vinyl, cheesecloth, dyes. Publications: contributor, Art by Telephone" (recording), Mus. Contemporary Art , Chicago, 1969; contributor, "If I Had a Mind . . . Concept-Art Project-Art," 1971. Teaching: instructor fine art, School Visual Arts, New York, 1963-, visiting artist, Univ. Colorado, Boulder Grad. School Art, 1972; Rhinehart critic sculpture, Maryland Inst. Art, 1972.

Sources: WW73; D. Judd, "Hard Edge Painting," Arts Magazine (Feb., 1963); H. Kramer, "And Now Eccentric Abstraction," New York Times, Nov., 1966; L. R. Lippard, Collected Essays in Art Criticism (1971)."