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