left: Bad Idea, 2008, wastebasket, book & steel, 24x10" dia.
middle: Swift, Tuttle & Associates, 2008, brass bowl, clock face, brass dial cover, illustrations, wood & steel, size variable
right: The Day I Wanted Nothing Else, 2007, lithographed book images on canvas, 12x9"
My current work holds the sombre and self-righteous vocabulary of assemblage at gunpoint, forcing it to serve the graphic, transient vernacular of contemporary visual culture. I'm interested in the contradictions: barely three-dimensional models of fleeting images we all seem to recognize – like old animated cartoons – but which we inexplicably feel we must now take seriously.
James Michael Starr, 2008
Selected Exhibitions:
Allene La Pides Gallery, Santa Fe, NM
Allyn Gallup Contemporary Art, Sarasota, FL
Centre de Documentation sur L’art du Collage, Sergines, France
Bennett Galleries, Knoxville, TN
Blossom Street Gallery, Houston, TX
Boyd Gallery, Dallas, TX
Galerie Bourbon-Lally, Montreal, Canada
Hooks-Epstein Galleries, Houston, TX
Horton Gallery, Philadelphia, PA
Koplin Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
MainSite Contemporary Art, Norman, OK
Parchman Stremmel Gallery, San Antonio, TX
Stone by Stone Gallery, Dallas, TX
Susan Cummins Gallery, Mill Valley, CA
The McKinney Avenue Contemporary, Dallas, TX