Herman James
American painter, born Portland, Oregon. Formerly representation: Joyce Goldstein, NYC. Currently by Leah Do, NYC. LIC, Seattle. NEA grantee, Chashama Studio residency (Tribeca). Nominated: Awards in Visual Arts Fellowship; Short listed–Aethetica Art Prize; Collections: MoMA, LACMA; York St. Mary’s Gallery, U.K.; Dishman Art Museum, Beaumont, Texas; Langenscheidt KG, Munich.
Painting in oil over acrylic, my practice finds human figures and imagined florals set in landscapes of dreamt realities. My immediate pictorial concerns water as a matrix or life forming above the waterline and below; in a space where one might find itself in the other, and in emotion expressed.
