James F. Wilson
watercolor
Education
1969-1971 MFA, painting, Boston University
1967 Yale Summer School of Music and Art
1964-1967 BFA, Painting and Printmaking, Kansas City Art Institute
Gallery Representation
2004-Present Componere Gallery, St. Louis, Mo.
Professional Experiences
An art teacher at Minerals Area College, Park Hill, Mo., Jim is frequently called on as a lecturer. He has earned many fellowships, honors and awards for his work.
Artist’s Statement
“I paint my own world. My eyes are excited by what I see, and I make poems about it”
Slices of Life
The Muses are the personification of knowledge and the arts, especially literature, dance and music. Some authors invoke Muses when writing poetry, hymns or epic history. The invocation typically occurs at or near the beginning, and calls for help or inspiration, or simply invites the Muse to sing through the author or painter. No Muse-poet grows conscious of the Muse except by experience of a woman in whom the Goddess is to some degree resident; just as no Apollonian poet can perform his proper function unless he lives under a monarchy or a quasi-monarchy. A Muse-poet falls in love, absolutely, and his true love is for him the embodiment of the Muse... But the real, perpetually obsessed Muse-poet distinguishes between the Goddess as manifest in the supreme power, glory, wisdom, and love of woman, and the individual woman whom the Goddess may make her instrument... The Goddess abides; and perhaps he will again have knowledge of her through his experience with her. (Robert Graves). The muse, for me, is a beautiful personification of love that inspires art and the artist to live in an inspired style of life. She is a mirage of hope and dreams. In this exhibition there are many life size figures represented in situations that are more of a imagined reality. There is a play on images meant to construe the changes of mental concentration from one minute to the next or more arrange of thoughts occurring at the same time only making sense to the muse herself.There are young women here choosing new masquerade paraphernalia for an oncoming moment of fanciful play. It is a moment of how they see themselves for this event or ritual passage. We are seeing the outward manifestation of each person’s inner dimensions.The "slice of life" here are the random images of tender flights of fantasy, masquerades, and the many choices each individual has in their personal catalogue of psychic potential.
watercolor
Education
1969-1971 MFA, painting, Boston University
1967 Yale Summer School of Music and Art
1964-1967 BFA, Painting and Printmaking, Kansas City Art Institute
Gallery Representation
2004-Present Componere Gallery, St. Louis, Mo.
Professional Experiences
An art teacher at Minerals Area College, Park Hill, Mo., Jim is frequently called on as a lecturer. He has earned many fellowships, honors and awards for his work.
Artist’s Statement
“I paint my own world. My eyes are excited by what I see, and I make poems about it”
Slices of Life
The Muses are the personification of knowledge and the arts, especially literature, dance and music. Some authors invoke Muses when writing poetry, hymns or epic history. The invocation typically occurs at or near the beginning, and calls for help or inspiration, or simply invites the Muse to sing through the author or painter. No Muse-poet grows conscious of the Muse except by experience of a woman in whom the Goddess is to some degree resident; just as no Apollonian poet can perform his proper function unless he lives under a monarchy or a quasi-monarchy. A Muse-poet falls in love, absolutely, and his true love is for him the embodiment of the Muse... But the real, perpetually obsessed Muse-poet distinguishes between the Goddess as manifest in the supreme power, glory, wisdom, and love of woman, and the individual woman whom the Goddess may make her instrument... The Goddess abides; and perhaps he will again have knowledge of her through his experience with her. (Robert Graves). The muse, for me, is a beautiful personification of love that inspires art and the artist to live in an inspired style of life. She is a mirage of hope and dreams. In this exhibition there are many life size figures represented in situations that are more of a imagined reality. There is a play on images meant to construe the changes of mental concentration from one minute to the next or more arrange of thoughts occurring at the same time only making sense to the muse herself.There are young women here choosing new masquerade paraphernalia for an oncoming moment of fanciful play. It is a moment of how they see themselves for this event or ritual passage. We are seeing the outward manifestation of each person’s inner dimensions.The "slice of life" here are the random images of tender flights of fantasy, masquerades, and the many choices each individual has in their personal catalogue of psychic potential.
