James Mathison
Works & Biography
About James Mathison
James Mathison’s magnificent sculptures are found in museums (MOLAA), corporate and important private collections, parks and other public spaces. The press, curators and experts have paid close attention to his many shows in Paris and Switzerland. His monographs have recently taken him to Texas and Chicago and Miami. James Mathison’s sculptures have been reviewed in the local and international press. Lately, collectors have acquired his pieces at Art Miami and Art Palm Beach.
His male nude sculptures transmit silent feelings of loneliness, melancholy and mutation. The "power of dialogue" is to be found in that silence. He’s known by his exquisite anatomical studies of the male body but in this show he mutates them with engraved lines of text that appears to be "coming from the interior of the being." Once again, the "power of dialogue" is coming out through their silence.
Mathison is interested in a dialogue with certain artistic traditions such as those by Michelangelo, Rodin, Degas, Giacometti and Zitman. These traditions go back to external proposals on humanity: to be before man, before matter, transformed into an idea of mankind.
James Mathison lives and works in Europe. He took courses at the St. Martin's Institute of Arts in London, England. He is included in museum collections in Venezuela and the United States.
His male nude sculptures transmit silent feelings of loneliness, melancholy and mutation. The "power of dialogue" is to be found in that silence. He’s known by his exquisite anatomical studies of the male body but in this show he mutates them with engraved lines of text that appears to be "coming from the interior of the being." Once again, the "power of dialogue" is coming out through their silence.
Mathison is interested in a dialogue with certain artistic traditions such as those by Michelangelo, Rodin, Degas, Giacometti and Zitman. These traditions go back to external proposals on humanity: to be before man, before matter, transformed into an idea of mankind.
James Mathison lives and works in Europe. He took courses at the St. Martin's Institute of Arts in London, England. He is included in museum collections in Venezuela and the United States.
EDUCATION
SELECTED EXHIBITIONS
Latinamerican Art, DGriss Gallery, Panama
Iberoamerican Art Fair (FIA), Spativm Gallery, Caracas
Ibero-American Art Fair (FIA), Spativm Gallery, Caracas
31: Thirty-one artists. Thirty-one works., Hooks-Epstein Galleries, Houston
Museo Francisco Narvaez Porlamar, Venezuela
Start, Strasbourg Art Fair, Espace Meyer-Zafra Strasbourg, France
Arteamericas, Latin American Art Fair (Merrill Lynch), Spativm Gallery, Florida
6 artists/group exhibition, Espace Meyer-Zafra, Paris
3 artists/group exhibition, Espace Meyer-Zafra, Paris
Salon grands et jeunes d'aujoud'hui, Espace d'auteuil, Paris
Arteamericas, Latin American Art Fair (Merrill Lynch), Spativm Gallery, Florida
Start, Strasbourg Art fair, Espace Meyer-Zafra, Strsbourg, France
Ibero-American Art Fair (FIA), Grupo Li Centro de Arte, Caracas
Hombre Fragmento (solo exhibition), Grupo Li Centro de Arte, Caracas
Art Miami, Grupo Li Centro de Arte, Miami
Ibero-American Art Fair (FIA), Grupo Li Centro de Arte, Caracas
Homo-Sentimentalis (solo exhibition), Grupo Li Centro de Arte, Caracas
SELECTED COLLECTIONS
Links:
http://artenoticiasmiami.blogspot.com/2013/07/james-mathison-en-ascaso-gallery-miami.html
- 2002-04 - Establishes and works in Paris
- 1993 - Creation of studio and foundry. Gavilan, Caracas
- 1991-92 - St. Martin's Institute of Arts, London, England
SELECTED EXHIBITIONS
- 2010
- 2009
- 2008
Latinamerican Art, DGriss Gallery, Panama
Iberoamerican Art Fair (FIA), Spativm Gallery, Caracas
- 2007
Ibero-American Art Fair (FIA), Spativm Gallery, Caracas
31: Thirty-one artists. Thirty-one works., Hooks-Epstein Galleries, Houston
- 2006
- 2005
Museo Francisco Narvaez Porlamar, Venezuela
- 2004
Start, Strasbourg Art Fair, Espace Meyer-Zafra Strasbourg, France
Arteamericas, Latin American Art Fair (Merrill Lynch), Spativm Gallery, Florida
- 2003
6 artists/group exhibition, Espace Meyer-Zafra, Paris
3 artists/group exhibition, Espace Meyer-Zafra, Paris
Salon grands et jeunes d'aujoud'hui, Espace d'auteuil, Paris
Arteamericas, Latin American Art Fair (Merrill Lynch), Spativm Gallery, Florida
Start, Strasbourg Art fair, Espace Meyer-Zafra, Strsbourg, France
- 2002
- 2001
Ibero-American Art Fair (FIA), Grupo Li Centro de Arte, Caracas
Hombre Fragmento (solo exhibition), Grupo Li Centro de Arte, Caracas
Art Miami, Grupo Li Centro de Arte, Miami
- 2000
Ibero-American Art Fair (FIA), Grupo Li Centro de Arte, Caracas
- 1999
- 1998
Homo-Sentimentalis (solo exhibition), Grupo Li Centro de Arte, Caracas
SELECTED COLLECTIONS
- John Kostelac & Suzanne York, Houston
- Susan & Lester Smith, Houston
- Mollie Cannady, Houston
- John Guess & Melanie Lawson, Houston
- Museo de arte Contemporaneo, Caracas
- Museo Ambiental Parque Los Caobos, Caracas
- Museum of Latin American Art (MOLA), Los Angeles
Links:
http://artenoticiasmiami.blogspot.com/2013/07/james-mathison-en-ascaso-gallery-miami.html