His apt description of the painterly project of an admired forebear, Alex Katz (James is also an accomplished and widely published critic), is equally applicable to his own practice, i.e. he continues to play the grand, complex game of Western painting while reflecting a fully contemporary consciousness of the modern and postmodern disjunctures of history and culture. (kerlingallery.com)
Personal revolution begins with awakening from contemporary consciousness. (blog.feedspot.com)
Nearly Real Things explores, literally or metaphorically, the act of transformation within contemporary consciousness, identity, society, and class by carefully investigating our relationships to current biological or technological metamorphoses. (curatorsintl.org)