Robert Mallary

In the 1950s and 1960s, he was renowned for his Neo-Dada or "junk art" sculpture, created from found materials and urban detritus, pieced together with hardened liquid plastics and resins.

Mallary's abstract relief sculptures and assemblages, created from discarded cardboard, fabrics, sand and straw – held together with hardened polyester resin – were featured in Life Magazine (Nov. 24, 1961).

Already known for technological innovation in art even before he became a computer artist in the late 1960s, Mallary's Luminous Mobile sculptures had been featured in Time magazine (March 10, 1952).

Mallary's sculpture, Pythia was purchased for The Governor Nelson A. Rockefeller Empire State Plaza Art Collection in Albany, NY in 1966.

In 1993, Mallary's work was displayed at the Mitchell Algus Gallery in NYC in the exhibit, "Robert Mallary: Early Assemblage and Recent Computer Graphics His sculptures, assemblages, computer graphics, and stereoscopic 3D projection art were shown at the Herter Gallery at UMass in 1990, and at the Springfield Museum of Fine Art in Massachusetts in 1995.

[5] Mallary had liver problems in later life, probably due to the toxicity of the liquid polyesters he had used to create his abstract expressionist sculptures in the 1950s and '60s.