James Welling (born 1951 in Hartford, Connecticut) is a postmodern artist. He earned both a BFA and an MFA at California Institute of the Arts in Valencia, California, where he studied with, among others, Dan Graham. He emerged in the 1970s as a postconceptual artist for whom photographic norms and the representational field itself were and remain contested and problematized. Welling lives and works in Los Angeles.
Life and work
During his career, Welling has experimented with different photographic mediums, including Polaroids, gelatin silver prints, photograms, and digital prints.
Having studied under John Baldessari at CalArts and exhibited with Sherrie Levine at Metro Pictures, Welling began his career in the so-called Pictures Generation. His self-education in photography began in 1976 with the series Los Angeles Architecture & Portraits. In 1977 his second series, Diary/Landscape, matched the handwriting of his great-grandparents' letters with winter landscapes in Connecticut. Another well-known 2009 series by Welling is a meditation over a period of three years on Philip Johnson’s Glass House, shot in situ using colored filters. By contrast, his images of the Maison de Verre, are digitally manipulated. The rooms are lightened and brightened so that in some cases they glow unnaturally like a magazine spread. Yet another series consists of rectangles of pure color, made in the darkroom using colored filters. For his photogram series Torsos (2005–08), Welling cut screening, of the same type used for windows, to follow bodily contours and placed them on chromogenic paper before exposing them.
The East Wickham part of Welling is probably one of the oldest settlements in this area. A Neolithic stone axe was found in East Wickham in 1910 and a bit more recently in 1989 the remains of Roman buildings were unearthed near Danson.
Before the coming of the railway, with the opening of the Bexleyheath Line on 1 May 1895, Welling was a village on the main road between London and Kent (Watling Street). It had been a traditional staging post for coaches; the presence of three inns along the main road is the result of that.
After World War I, Bexley Urban District Council built over 400 houses north of the railway. Later, when the Danson estate was sold to developers, the land to the south was opened up to suburban sprawl and the settlement incorporated the local parishes of St Michael's East Wickham and St Johns Welling
Watch back all the key moments from the Wings' clash with Boreham Wood at Park View Road.
📲 Follow the Wings:
X: https://twitter.com/wellingunited
Instagram: https://instagram.com/wellingunited
Facebook: https://facebook.com/wellingunited
https://www.wellingunited.com
published: 19 Jan 2025
46king 🥺#automobile #125 #welling#fouryou
46king 🥺#automobile #125 #welling#fouryou
published: 25 Sep 2024
🥺 ONE WELLING WITH 125 | 46 KING STYLE #wheellie #rider
published: 31 Aug 2024
One welling against police officer | one welling with 125 #rider #stunt #wheelie
published: 01 Sep 2024
#level #welling #fouryou #short#125
level #welling #fouryou #short#125
published: 15 Sep 2024
Discovery Welling
Welling high street is full of shops and services. There is a huge variety of multinational and independent businesses, with lots of events going on too.
Make a trip and Discover Welling to help keep the pound in the town.
published: 23 May 2022
HIGHLIGHTS / Welling United 2 Torquay United 0
Watch back all the key moments from the Wings' 2-0 victory over Torquay United at Park View Road.
📲 Follow the Wings:
X: https://twitter.com/wellingunited
Instagram: https://instagram.com/wellingunited
Facebook: https://facebook.com/wellingunited
https://www.wellingunited.com
published: 08 Sep 2024
HIGHLIGHTS / Welling United 2 Hampton & Richmond 3
Watch back all the key moments from the Wings' clash with Hampton & Richmond at Park View Road.
📲 Follow the Wings:
X: https://twitter.com/wellingunited
Instagram: https://instagram.com/wellingunited
Facebook: https://facebook.com/wellingunited
https://www.wellingunited.com
published: 15 Jan 2025
How do 4 trains RUN over same man - The London Underground Incident 2023
On the 26th December, 2023, a passenger was hit by four different trains on the same track by five different train operators on the London Underground. Watch as we delve into the incident and look at CCTV images on that fateful day to try and discover who was at fault.
RAIB Report - https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/media/6788c8e5bca9366c9f56dfa9/R012025_250116_Stratford.pdf
Content Sources - RAIB, Google Maps,
#london
#underground
#tube
#train
#disaster
Watch back all the key moments from the Wings' clash with Boreham Wood at Park View Road.
📲 Follow the Wings:
X: https://twitter.com/wellingunited
Instagram:...
Watch back all the key moments from the Wings' clash with Boreham Wood at Park View Road.
📲 Follow the Wings:
X: https://twitter.com/wellingunited
Instagram: https://instagram.com/wellingunited
Facebook: https://facebook.com/wellingunited
https://www.wellingunited.com
Watch back all the key moments from the Wings' clash with Boreham Wood at Park View Road.
📲 Follow the Wings:
X: https://twitter.com/wellingunited
Instagram: https://instagram.com/wellingunited
Facebook: https://facebook.com/wellingunited
https://www.wellingunited.com
Welling high street is full of shops and services. There is a huge variety of multinational and independent businesses, with lots of events going on too.
Mak...
Welling high street is full of shops and services. There is a huge variety of multinational and independent businesses, with lots of events going on too.
Make a trip and Discover Welling to help keep the pound in the town.
Welling high street is full of shops and services. There is a huge variety of multinational and independent businesses, with lots of events going on too.
Make a trip and Discover Welling to help keep the pound in the town.
Watch back all the key moments from the Wings' 2-0 victory over Torquay United at Park View Road.
📲 Follow the Wings:
X: https://twitter.com/wellingunited
In...
Watch back all the key moments from the Wings' 2-0 victory over Torquay United at Park View Road.
📲 Follow the Wings:
X: https://twitter.com/wellingunited
Instagram: https://instagram.com/wellingunited
Facebook: https://facebook.com/wellingunited
https://www.wellingunited.com
Watch back all the key moments from the Wings' 2-0 victory over Torquay United at Park View Road.
📲 Follow the Wings:
X: https://twitter.com/wellingunited
Instagram: https://instagram.com/wellingunited
Facebook: https://facebook.com/wellingunited
https://www.wellingunited.com
Watch back all the key moments from the Wings' clash with Hampton & Richmond at Park View Road.
📲 Follow the Wings:
X: https://twitter.com/wellingunited
Inst...
Watch back all the key moments from the Wings' clash with Hampton & Richmond at Park View Road.
📲 Follow the Wings:
X: https://twitter.com/wellingunited
Instagram: https://instagram.com/wellingunited
Facebook: https://facebook.com/wellingunited
https://www.wellingunited.com
Watch back all the key moments from the Wings' clash with Hampton & Richmond at Park View Road.
📲 Follow the Wings:
X: https://twitter.com/wellingunited
Instagram: https://instagram.com/wellingunited
Facebook: https://facebook.com/wellingunited
https://www.wellingunited.com
On the 26th December, 2023, a passenger was hit by four different trains on the same track by five different train operators on the London Underground. Watch as...
On the 26th December, 2023, a passenger was hit by four different trains on the same track by five different train operators on the London Underground. Watch as we delve into the incident and look at CCTV images on that fateful day to try and discover who was at fault.
RAIB Report - https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/media/6788c8e5bca9366c9f56dfa9/R012025_250116_Stratford.pdf
Content Sources - RAIB, Google Maps,
#london
#underground
#tube
#train
#disaster
On the 26th December, 2023, a passenger was hit by four different trains on the same track by five different train operators on the London Underground. Watch as we delve into the incident and look at CCTV images on that fateful day to try and discover who was at fault.
RAIB Report - https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/media/6788c8e5bca9366c9f56dfa9/R012025_250116_Stratford.pdf
Content Sources - RAIB, Google Maps,
#london
#underground
#tube
#train
#disaster
Watch back all the key moments from the Wings' clash with Boreham Wood at Park View Road.
📲 Follow the Wings:
X: https://twitter.com/wellingunited
Instagram: https://instagram.com/wellingunited
Facebook: https://facebook.com/wellingunited
https://www.wellingunited.com
Welling high street is full of shops and services. There is a huge variety of multinational and independent businesses, with lots of events going on too.
Make a trip and Discover Welling to help keep the pound in the town.
Watch back all the key moments from the Wings' 2-0 victory over Torquay United at Park View Road.
📲 Follow the Wings:
X: https://twitter.com/wellingunited
Instagram: https://instagram.com/wellingunited
Facebook: https://facebook.com/wellingunited
https://www.wellingunited.com
Watch back all the key moments from the Wings' clash with Hampton & Richmond at Park View Road.
📲 Follow the Wings:
X: https://twitter.com/wellingunited
Instagram: https://instagram.com/wellingunited
Facebook: https://facebook.com/wellingunited
https://www.wellingunited.com
On the 26th December, 2023, a passenger was hit by four different trains on the same track by five different train operators on the London Underground. Watch as we delve into the incident and look at CCTV images on that fateful day to try and discover who was at fault.
RAIB Report - https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/media/6788c8e5bca9366c9f56dfa9/R012025_250116_Stratford.pdf
Content Sources - RAIB, Google Maps,
#london
#underground
#tube
#train
#disaster
James Welling (born 1951 in Hartford, Connecticut) is a postmodern artist. He earned both a BFA and an MFA at California Institute of the Arts in Valencia, California, where he studied with, among others, Dan Graham. He emerged in the 1970s as a postconceptual artist for whom photographic norms and the representational field itself were and remain contested and problematized. Welling lives and works in Los Angeles.
Life and work
During his career, Welling has experimented with different photographic mediums, including Polaroids, gelatin silver prints, photograms, and digital prints.
Having studied under John Baldessari at CalArts and exhibited with Sherrie Levine at Metro Pictures, Welling began his career in the so-called Pictures Generation. His self-education in photography began in 1976 with the series Los Angeles Architecture & Portraits. In 1977 his second series, Diary/Landscape, matched the handwriting of his great-grandparents' letters with winter landscapes in Connecticut. Another well-known 2009 series by Welling is a meditation over a period of three years on Philip Johnson’s Glass House, shot in situ using colored filters. By contrast, his images of the Maison de Verre, are digitally manipulated. The rooms are lightened and brightened so that in some cases they glow unnaturally like a magazine spread. Yet another series consists of rectangles of pure color, made in the darkroom using colored filters. For his photogram series Torsos (2005–08), Welling cut screening, of the same type used for windows, to follow bodily contours and placed them on chromogenic paper before exposing them.