Albert Paley at the V&A

We obviously could'nt visit the V&A without seeing the worght iron work section! its wonderful to see how 'Handmade' has made such a massive contribution over the years, and within the permanent collection is one of Albert Paley's benches.

Albert Paley is the first metal sculptor to receive the coveted Lifetime Achievement Award from the American Institute of Architects, the AIA’s highest award to a non-architect.  “The allure of Paley’s art comes though its intrinsic sense of integration of art and architecture,” as one noted architect stated.

Albert Paley has been active as an artist for over 30 years at his studio in Rochester, New York.

Commissioned by both public institutions and private corporations, Paley has completed more than 60 site-specific works. Some notable examples are the Portal Gates for the Renwick Gallery of the Smithsonian Institution in Washington DC, a sculpture and plaza designed for Adobe Systems in San Jose, CA, the Portal Gates for the New York State Senate Chambers in Albany, a plaza sculpture for AT&T in Atlanta, GA, a 65-foot sculpture for the entry court of Bausch and Lomb’s headquarters in Rochester, NY as well as major entrance rotunda gates for a State Courthouse in San Francisco, and the main entrance gates for the Naples Museum of Art, Naples, FL. 

Recently completed works include a sculptural relief for Wellington Place, Toronto, Canada, a pair of entrance sculptures for the Columbia Public Library, Columbia, Missouri, a 120-foot long entryway sculpture in Forrest park for the St. Louis Zoological Park, St. Louis Missouri, The Sentinel, a monumental plaza sculpture for Rochester Institute of Technology, and Threshold, an entryway sculpture for the headquarters of Klein Steel Services, Rochester New York.

Pieces by Albert Paley can be found in the permanent collections of many major museums including the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston, the Museum of Fine Arts in Houston, and the Victoria and Albert Museum in London, Western Australia, Fitzwilliam, British Museum.

Broadly published and an international lecturer, Paley received both his BFA and MFA from the Tyler School of Art in Philadelphia.  He received honorary doctorates from the University of Rochester in 1989, the State University of New York at Brockport in 1996, and St. Lawrence University, in Canton, New York in 1997.  He also holds an endowed chair at the Rochester Institute of Technology.