Rob Wynne
Rob Wynne is a interdisciplinary sculptor and installation artist with experience in various mediums ranging from hand embroidered paintings, bronze casting and poured mirrored glass, to archival printing, digital photography, and collage. His work is known for challenging traditional means of creation, particularly with his techniques in glass pouring and repurposing of art and other materials. He mainly explores implications and irony of certain concepts and language with direct allusion to literature, television, and current events or conversation.
Rob Wynne is native of New York City. He received a BFA from the Pratt Institute in Brooklyn New York. Wynne has exhibited in numerous solo and group exhibitions in the U.S. and abroad.. Wynne’s work is included in the collections of the Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY the Whitney Museum of Art, New York, NY; the Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, PA; the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA; the Norton Museum, West Palm Beach, FL; the Taubman Museum of Art, Roanoke, VA; and the Roanoke College Permanent Collection, Roanoke, VA, among others.
Rob Wynne, Curiosity, 2015, pored and mirrored glass, 22" x 59", Roanoke College Permanent Collection, gift of Joanne Leonhardt Cassullo and the Communities Foundation of Texas
Rob Wynne, ANT, 2012, glass beads and tread on vellum, 27" x 21”, Roanoke College Permanent Collection, gift of the artist
Teardrops, 2015, bronze
Roanoke College Permanent Collection, gift of Joanne Leonhardt Casullo and The Dorothea L. Leonhardt Foundation, Inc.
On April 13, the first night of Alumni Weekend 2018, three large bronze sculptures in the shape of teardrops were presented in memory of Jane Zehringer ’77, who died on January 21, 2018. Classmates, family, and friends gathered at Monterey for a moving presentation and remembrance, led by Joanne Cassullo ’78, a member of the Roanoke College Board of Trustees and dear friend, classmate and freshman roommate of Zehringer. From that night forward, Teardrops —the work of New York artist Rob Wynne — will appear once a year on the first night of Alumni Weekend, hanging from a tree somewhere on campus.