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James
Barsness Critical Praise |
While his work is coveted by collectors, it has also been purchased for numerous public collections, including those at the Cornell Fine Arts Museum in Winter Park, Fla., and The Pennsylvania Academy of Art in Philadelphia. "My art partly has to do with my crackpot ideas about life and living," says Barness, laughing. "I'm interested in how groups of people interact in a continuous environment like a town. It's primarily about the suppression of our natural interests for the good of the whole. I think it's that moment of suppression that initiates much of our creative energy." James Barsness / Biography b. 1954 Bozeman, Montana Education 1988 San Francisco Art Institute, MFA 1985 Boise State University, Art Education, MA 1979 Boise State University, BA Teaching 2000 Assistant Professor, University of Georgia, Athens 1999 Instructor, Loyola Marymount University, Los Angeles, CA Awards 1999 University of Georgia Faculty Research Grant 1996 Elizabeth Foundation Grant 1989 Juror's Award, Crocker/Kingsley Annual, Sacramento, CA 1988 Binney and Smith National Art Achievement Award Solo Exhibitions 2002 James Barsness: The Prize, George Adams Gallery, New York, NY 2002 James Barsness, Arrow, Athens, GA 2001 Any History Will Do, James Barsness New Paintings, George Adams Gallery, New York, NY 2001 Arrow, Athens, GA 2000 Brian Gross Fine Art, San Francisco, CA 1999 George Adams Gallery, New York, NY 1998 It's A Beautiful World, George Adams Gallery, New York 1997 James Barsness: Icons of Comic Relief, John Michael Kohler Arts Center, Sheboygan, Wisconsin 1997 New Civilizations, George Adams Gallery, New York, NY 1996 California Museum of Art, Santa Rosa, CA 1996 The Rhythm of Rebel Angels, Susan Cummins Gallery, Mill Valley, CA 1995 The Usual Difficulties, George Adams Gallery, New York, NY 1995 Southeastern Center for Contemporary Art, Winston-Salem, NC 1994 New Works on Paper, Frumkin/Adams Gallery, New York, NY 1994 Mythic Inventions, Boise Art Museum, ID 1994 Susan Cummins Gallery, Mill Valley, CA (also 1993, 1991, 1990) 1994 Dominican College, San Rafael, CA 1992 Caplan, Santa Monica, CA 1989 Diego Rivera Gallery, San Francisco Art Institute, CA (also 1987) 1988 Basement Studios, San Francisco, CA Selected Group Exhibitions 2004 Bush-Whack!, George Adams Gallery, New York, NY 2003 Summer Solos: Jim Barsness, David Eisenhour, and Jeff Sonhouse, Atlanta Contemporary Art Center, Atlanta, GA 2003 The Board Show, di Rosa Preserve/Off the Preserve, Napa, CA 2002 Me, Myself & I, George Adams Gallery, New York, NY 2001-2002 Impact: New Faculty in the Lamar Dodd School of Art, Georgia Museum of Art, University of Georgia, Athens, GA 2001 Artists Respond: A Benefit Exhibition of Works By Gallery Artist and I Love New York Benefit, George Adams Gallery, NY 2001 Magic Vision, Arkansas Art Center, Little Rock, AR (catalogue) 2001 Black Male: Portraits by Willie Birch with paintings by James Barsness and sculpture by Neil Harshfield, Arthur Roger Gallery, LA 2001 Reconsidering the Renaissance, Bridgewater, Lustberg & Blumenfeld Gallery, New York, NY 2000 Imagined Landscapes: DREAM, Consolidated Works, Seattle, WA 2000 2000 Collector's Show, Arkansas Arts Center, Little Rock, AK 2000 The Image of Text, Sawhill Gallery, James Madison University, Harrisonburg, VA 2000 American Art Today: Fantasies and Curiosities, The Art Museum, Florida International University, Miami, FL (catalogue) 2000 Bizarro World! The Parallel Universes of Comics and Fine Arts, Cornell Fine Arts Museum, Rollins College, Winter Park, FL (catalogue) 2000 Six Painters, Sonoma State University 1999 Art About Art, George Adams Gallery, New York 1998 Annual Collector's Show, Arkansas Arts Center, Little Rock (also 1994, 1993, 1992) 1998 Peep Show: An Exhibition of Erotic Fact and Fantasy, Luise Ross Gallery, New York 1997 A Show of Hands, George Adams Gallery, New York 1997 Mixing Business with Pleasure, Sawhill Gallery, James Madison University, Harrisonburg, VA 1997 Recent Acquisitions, Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, Philadelphia 1997 The Importance of Toys, Monique Knowlton Gallery, New York, NY 1996 The New Traditionalists, Museum of Art, University of Oregon, Eugene 1995 Out of 'Toon: Another Look at Art & the Comics, George Adams Gallery, New York 1995 The Hebrew Home for the Aged, Riverdale, NY 1995 The Reconstructed Figure: The Human Image in Contemporary Art, Katonah Museum of Art, New York 1994 Figure Drawing, Charles Moore Gallery, Philadelphia, PA 1994 Here and Now: Bay Area Masterworks from the Di Rosa Collection, The Oakland Museum, CA 1994 Comic Influences, Susan Cummins Gallery, Mill Valley, CA 1994 Drawings: Reaffirming the Media, Art Gallery, University of Missouri, Kansas City, MO 1992 Large-Scale Drawings: Gallery Artists and Invited Guests, Frumkin/Adams Gallery, New York 1992 Caplan Gallery, Santa Monica 1991 Hanno Ahrens/James Barsness, Frumkin/Adams Gallery, New York 1990 Introductions, John Pence Gallery, San Francisco, CA 1990 Iconic Image, Susan Cummins Gallery, Mill Valley, CA 1989 Crock Kinsley Annual, Crocker Art Museum, Sacramento, CA 1989 Rental Gallery, Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA Selected Collections Allentown Art Museum, Pennsylvania Arkansas Art Center, Little Rock Boise Museum of Art, Idaho Capital Light, Hartford Cornell Fine Arts Museum, Winter Park, FL Neuberger & Berman, New York, NY Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia Perseis Collection, Honolulu, HI Rene and Veronica di Rosa Art Preserve, Napa, CA Sealed Air Corporation Stephens Inc, Little Rock, AR Wellington Management, Boston, MA Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY Selected Bibliography Baker, Kenneth, "A Moral Warning In Troubled Seas," San Francisco Chronicle, May 6, 2000 ---. Art News, March 1994 Barsness, Jim. "The Monster's Progres, HARD PRESS, Stockbridge, MA, 2000 Bonetti, David. "Gallery Watch," San Francisco Examiner, May 12, 2000 DeCarlo, Tessa. The New York Times, August 31, 1997 Goodman, Jonathan. Art in America, October 1998 Johnson, Kenneth. "Art Reviews," The New York Times, November 5, 1999. ---."Art Reviews," The New York Times, October 25, 1999 Local Color: The Di Rosa Collection of Contemporary California Art, Chronicle Press, 1999 Patterson, Tom, Winston-Salem Journal Spring, June 11, 1995 Porges, Maria. Artforum, January 1994 Shearin, Margaret. Triad, May 1995.
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