Biography:

Born in Somerville Massachusetts, James graduated from Emerson College with honors, enabling him to move to New York City and there pursue a successful career in Digital Media. But, after witnessing the World Trade Center attack on 9/11, he left the digital world, earned an MSED and became a Special Education teacher in Brooklyn NY.

A few years after his retirement in pre-COVID 2019, James moved to the Southern Berkshires with his wife photographer Barbara Woike. Once sequestered there he renewed his love of making art from his home studio.

Affirmation:

I produce art with a sense of time and place while focusing on representational elements. The term I use for this is Neustolgia, a play on a word that best describes my reinterpretations of the past, present and near future. It is through this lens that I present images that instill a longing or affection for the iconic/symbolic.

Education:

MSE Special Education City College of New York

BS Mass Communications/Fine Arts Emerson College Boston MA

Studied At:

Museum of Fine Arts Boston MA

Massachusetts College of Art Boston MA

Boston University Design Program Boston MA

Shows:

Becket Arts Center - Becket MA 3 pieces included in juried show “Paw Prints” July/August 2024

Knox Gallery - Monterey MA “Split Images - Drawings and photographs” With Barbara Woike. March/April 2024

Spencertown Academy - New York “Eighth Annual Member’s Show” November/December 2023

Spencertown Academy - New York Regional Juried show “Homes, Hamlets & Villages” October 2023

St Francis Gallery - Lee MA 3 pieces in group show June/July 2023

Stockbridge Library - Stockbridge MA “Artist of the Month” May 2023