Jim Banks
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James Banks
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Artist’s Statement
James Banks
Painting
I make art because I can. Perhaps because I must. My wife, Jeannie Motherwell (also a NoCa artist), once told me, "You aren't an artist because you make art; you make art because you are an artist." I didn't grow up with or around art, and when I discovered it in college, I couldn't believe people actually spent their lives doing this. I ended up with a BA in art from Bard College in New York.
Later, for a variety of reasons, I pursued other career avenues, thinking I could go anywhere, be anything, do anything. I was wrong and came back to art like a refugee.
My work has been diverse, investigating different conceptual strategies and experimenting with many different materials in an effort to discover what it is I can do and of the nature of art as it relates to me. Over the last several years, I have been working in four areas: 1) fairly realistic paintings of people taken from society pages, news images, or random photos; 2) collage-like or painterly recombination of news or photo images in my computer to create imaginative narrative scenes; 3) landscapes with dreamy or hallucinogenic elements; and 4) pure abstraction that I might consider close-ups of those dreamy landscapes.
How to Get Involved
Interested in showing your artwork in the Dome Gallery?
Vineyard Dome Gallery Application (PDF)
Dome Gallery Procedures at the Vineyard (Cambridge Site) – (PDF)
Visual Arts Committee
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