Head of Girl (In Play) #5
2007
charcoal and graphite on habdmade Japanese Paper
39 x 25 inches

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JAMES NELSON

b. 1966, Raleigh, North Carolina

Education

1985-90 California State University, Chico, CA, BFA Sculpture
1989 California State University, CSU Summer Arts Program, Humboldt, CA

Selected Solo Exhibitions

2008
Head of a Girl (in play), Gallery Joe, Philadelphia, PA
2007
Head of a Girl, McKenzie Fine Art, New York, NY
2005
New Drawings, McKenzie Fine Art, New York, NY
2000
Wanderlust, the boxes, KeySpan Energy Corporation, Community Gallery, Lobby installation, One Metrotech Center, Brooklyn, NY
1999
Recent Drawings, KeySpan Energy Corporation Community Gallery, One Metrotech Center, Brooklyn, NY
1995
Entropy Series, (installation), Castellani Museum of Art, Niagara Falls, NY
Delirium: Installation of Drawings, Nina Freudenheim Gallery, Buffalo, NY

Selected Group Exhibitions

2008
Horror Vacui, McKenzie Fine Aart, New York, NY
2007
The Art Show in Haverstraw, River Stone Arts, Haverstraw, NY
2006
There’s the Rub, Islip Art Museum, East Islip, NY
2005
Summer Show, Nina Freudenheim Gallery, Buffalo, NY
13 Boxes, Goliath Visual Space, Brooklyn, NY
2004
I Want to Take You Higher, McKenzie Fine Art, Inc., New York, NY
Intense Focus, Elizabeth Leach Gallery, Portland, OR
A Slow Read, The Rotunda Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
San Franciso International Art Exposition SF6, Gallery Joe, San Francisco, CA
Benaddiction, Goliath Visual Space, Brooklyn, NY
2003
The Affordable Art Fair, McKenzie Fine Art, New York, NY
Worlds Apart: Microcosm/Macrocosm, Axel Raben Gallery, New York, NY
Summer Show, Gallery Joe, Philadelphia, PA
graphite and paper, Gallery Joe, Philadelphia, PA
Benefit 2003, Momenta Art, Brooklyn, NY and White Columns, New York, NY
San Francisco International Art Exposition SF5, Gallery Joe, San Francisco, CA
Stroke, Schroeder Romero Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
2001
Conference, Wilmer Jennings Gallery, New York, NY
2000
Drawings by Dean Brown and James Nelson, KeySpan Energy Corporation Community Gallery, One Metrotech Center, Brooklyn, NY
3am, American Cultural Center, Damascas, Syria (traveling to: Le Pont Gallery, Aleppo and The Arab Cultural Center, Raqqa, Syria
1998
The Printed Word, The American Gallery, New York, NY
1996
Western New York, Albright-Knox Gallery, Buffalo, NY
1995
In Western New York, Albright-Knox Gallery, Buffalo, NY
Summer Show, Nina Freudenheim Gallery, Buffalo, NY
1994
Passion, Visual Art and Poetry, traveled to: Peconic Gallery, Suffolk Community College, Riverhead, NY and Rathbone Gallery, Sage Junior College of Albany, NY (juried by Ann Philbin of the Drawing Center)
Altervista, One Main Street, Brooklyn, NY
1993
Drawing into the 90’s, traveled to: Laguna Gloria Art Museum, Austin, TX; Texas A&M Gallery, College Station, TX; Midland College, Midland, TX; etc. (juried by Neal Benezra of the Hirshhorn Museum & Sculpture Garden)

Bibliography

2007
Maine, Stephen. "Charcoal with a charge." Review McKenzie Fine Art, New York. The New York Sun (September 6, 2007).
2006
Harrison, Helen H. “There’s the Rub.” Review Islip Art Museum, New York. The New York Times, Long Island Edition (May 7, 2006)
2005
Maine, Stephen. “James Nelson at McKenzie.” Art in America (June/July 2005): 183.
2004
Glueck, Grace, “I Want to Take You Higher.” Review McKenzie Fine Art, New York. New York Times, (June 25, 2004): E33
Maine, Stephen. “Dateline Brooklyn.” Review Rotunda Gallery, Brooklyn , New York. Artnet (February 12, 2004).
Cotter, Holland. “Sampling Brooklyn, Keeper of Eclectic Flames.” Review Rotunda Gallery, Brooklyn, New York. The New York Times (Jan. 23, 2004): E27
2003
Cotter, Holland. "Stroke", Last Chance Schroeder Romero, Brooklyn, New York. The New York Times, (February 21, 2003): E44
1995
Huntington, Richard. “Where There’s Spontaneity, There’s Order.” Review Castellani Art Museum, Buffalo, New York. The Buffalo News (December 23, 1995): B10.