Paley, Albert

Albert Paley (1944- ) is an art metal worker and jewelry designer from Rochester, N.Y.

From the description of Oral history interview with Albert Paley, 1982 Dec. 2. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 430380359

Sculptor and metalworker Albert Paley's permanent mark on the campus of RIT was made when his towering Sentinel was dedicated in 2003. Paley was born in Philadelphia, and earned undergraduate and graduate degrees from the Tyler School of Art in Philadelphia. He came to Rochester in 1969 as a faculty member in RIT's School of American Crafts. Paley also served on the faculty of SUNY College at Brockport. Currently, he is Distinguished Professor holding the Charlotte Fredericks Mowris Professorship in Contemporary Crafts at the School for American Crafts and a board member of the International Sculpture Center. Paley's work is held by museums all over the world, 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. He is well known for his more than 50 commissioned pieces, including portal gates for the Renwick Gallery of the Smithsonian Institution and New York State Senate Chambers in Albany, and Horizon, a sculpture for Adobe Systems in San Jose, California.

From the description of Albert Paley sculpture and photograph, 1974-2003. (RIT Library). WorldCat record id: 760197015

Art metal worker, jewelry designer; Rochester, N.Y.; b. 1944.

From the description of Albert Paley interview, 1982 Dec. 2. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 220236838