John Henry (b. 1943) is an internationally renowned sculptor. Since 1971, Henry has produced many monumental and large-scale works of art for museums, cities and public institutions across the world. He has created some of the largest contemporary metal sculptures (about 100 feet high) in the United States, and his sculpture is designed and erected by his studio in Chattanooga, Tennessee.
Henry is best known for his monumental abstract sculptures of intersecting welded beams and monoliths. Typically identified with 1970s Minimalism, his formal roots lie in Russian Constructivism’s merging of industrial processes and geometric abstraction. Many of his sculptures suggest a moment of arrested motion where flying or tumbling elements are frozen.