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. 

EDUCATION

  • 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
Palm Beach Art Fair, Aldo Castillo Gallery, Palm Beach, FL

  • 2009
Biennal Miguel Otero Silva, Ascaso Gallery, Caracas, Venezuela

  • 2008
Recent Work (solo exhibition), Moka Gallery, Chicago, IL
 Latinamerican Art, DGriss Gallery, Panama
 Iberoamerican Art Fair (FIA), Spativm Gallery, Caracas

  • 2007
Textures, Hooks-Epstein Galleries, Houston
Ibero-American Art Fair (FIA), Spativm Gallery, Caracas
31: Thirty-one artists. Thirty-one works., Hooks-Epstein Galleries, Houston

  • 2006 
Recent Work (solo exhibition), Espace Meyer-Zafra, Paris
  • 2005 
Observadores, Hooks-Epstein Galleries, Houston sculpture Biennial Francisco Narvaez, 
Museo Francisco Narvaez Porlamar, Venezuela

  • 2004
Art Miami, Spativm Gallery, Miami
Start, Strasbourg Art Fair, Espace Meyer-Zafra Strasbourg, France
Arteamericas, Latin American Art Fair (Merrill Lynch), Spativm Gallery, Florida

  • 2003
Latinamerican Art, Spativm Gallery, Caracas
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
Group Exhibition, Espace Meyer-Zafra, Paris

  • 2001
Recent Work (solo exhibition), Espace Meyer-Zafra, Paris
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
Art Miami, James Goodman Gallery, Miami
Ibero-American Art Fair (FIA), Grupo Li Centro de Arte, Caracas

  • 1999
Ibero-American Art Fair (FIA), Grupo Li Centro de Arte, Caracas

  • 1998
Ibero-American Art Fair (FIA), Grupo Li Centro de Arte, Caracas
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